Ear Trek (ET) is a Community Based Organization (non-profit) that is implementing a “Strategic Speech and Hearing Enhancement Project (SSHEP)” targeting Hearing Impaired children, at Kasarani Sub–County, Nairobi.

The Project is designed to support, empower and promote sustainable development targeting Hearing Impaired Children in the Communities.

The main focus is on those that have some residual hearing and speech so that the fitting of hearing aids can accelerate their hearing and with the support of speech therapist and special needs teacher, train the child on speech and language development as well as early childhood Development activities. This will empower the Hard of hearing (HH) Child to become self-reliant through early intervention.

Vision: To improve the lives of Hearing Impaired Children through enhancement of speech and hearing as well as special skills training for independent living.

Mission

To promote standardization and equalization of opportunities for Hearing Impaired Children through an early intervention Programme.

Our Goal

To work with Hearing Impaired Children in Partnership with their Families and Communities to access facilities, information and necessary support resulting in independence and self reliance of the HI Children.

"It would be worth noting that the Proposer of this Project and Founder of Ear Trek is a mother of a young adult girl who has been HI from the age of 1 year and is now 26 years old. Through going through the proposed programme on an individual capacity, she has achieved her potential and is now an Artist and an empowered HI Child. A show case of what early intervention, resilience, persistence, determination and hard work can result to”.

It is our hope that the implementation of this Programme will impacted in a big way in the rehabilitation of Hearing Impaired (HI) Children in Kenya, and hopefully attained some improvement of their educational opportunities and life as a whole. This can only happen when all parties involved work together with the aim of achieving one goal – embracing and empowering the HI child.

Our slogan is “Hearing Protection is a Sound Investment” and to us, “Disability is not Inability” only “Differently Abled”.