SOLAR EAR WE WORK TO ALTER THE GLOBAL PERCEPTION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BY HELPING THEM BECOME FIRST CLASS LEADERS IN THEIR PROFESSIONAL FIELDS
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SOLAR EAR WE WORK TO ALTER THE GLOBAL PERCEPTION
OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BY HELPING THEM BECOME FIRST CLASS LEADERS IN THEIR PROFESSIONAL FIELDS
Sustainable profits
Social impact
Agent of Change in society
Social Enterprise Objectives
Social Enterprise Focuses on Sustainability
Projects must survive from self-generated income.
Professionally run.
Replicability-scaling.
Income to
NGO &
Participants
New Projects,
Job
Creation
Income from
Project
Social Enterprise Focus on Sustainability
The staggering figures of hearing health in developing countries
• 600 million hearing impaired. / 2/3 in developing countries
• 9 million hearing aids manufactured a year / only 12% sold in developing countries
• Average price of Hearing Aid USA survey: between $1,182 and $2,876
• Price of 1 battery : $2 / Need: 1 a week
Need for Hearing Aids in Developing
Countries:
400M Availability:
480K
181 Million Children with a hearing loss
Bo Ai School for the Deaf
Our Business Model
We are a non-profit sustainable social business assembling affordable hearing-aids and solar powered battery chargers
Our social agenda
made by people who are deaf for children with a hearing loss in developing countries
Solar Ear’s Mission
1) Provide proven high quality affordable hearing aid
2) Offer training and employment to young deaf people, especially women
3) Provide deaf education programs on issues of HIV-AIDS, home economics
and other programs
4) Showing society the special abilities
of deaf, thereby creating more
employment opportunities
5) New methods to deliver sustainable
hearing health
Botswana 2002 Deaftronics - Solar Ear
Brazil 2006 Instituto CEFAC- Solar Ear
China 2012 Jiujiang Bo Ai - Solar Ear
India 2012 Sunona – Solar Ear
Native American -
First Nations 2013
Solar Ear throughout the world
Future- by 2020 •15 Solar Ear centers in 15 duty free zones servicing over
60 countries with access to over 3 billion people
Solar Ear
Projected Solar Ear sites
Sustainable Franchise Program
Deaf teachers from Solar Ear in Botswana or Brazil come to new Solar Ear Center
They help select the deaf employees to be trained
Teach the workers to be able to manufacture up to 15-20 hearing aids a day
Inspire the new deaf workers by showing them that a deaf person can do anything, and go anywhere
Teach HIV- AIDS
South to South Training
Education
Internal education health education, home economics
Leadership training
Language development
Deaf-to-hearing civil society
Theater
Our Products: Solar Charger and Rechargeable batteries
Charges two hearing aid batteries and hearing aid at the same time
Developed the first rechargeable
hearing aid battery, but not patented
Cost same as disposable
Maintains capability or capacity for 2-3 Years
Fit in 80% of all BTE hearing aids
!
Environmental Savings 200,000,000 disposable
batteries used per year
Our Products: Hearing Aids
All parts and suppliers by the same suppliers as
all other hearing aids companies
We have a mark up of 100%, other companies
between 2000% and 6000%
Universities studies and feedback: Central Michigan University, University of Copenhagen, Stanford University, Special Olympics
PROVEN Sales
sold in 31 countries
THE FIRST GENERIC HEARING AIDS
More challenges
Getting equipped with a hearing aid usually requires a clinic
The Solar Ear Solutions
1- TESTING and DIAGNOSIS equipment 2- Hear mold making 3- Regular fine tuning and professional staff
Missing Link Series
Missing Link Series
1- PORTABLE Testing equipment 2- INSTANT Hear mold making 3- Self-adjusted H.Aids by ambulant professional staff
+ lack of trained audiologists to do testing = 1 audiologist per 3 M people in developing world
Portable Screening and Diagnostic Instrument for NGOs only
Portable, handheld device offering professional tests
Language neutral +
Headphones and all hardware
In 2 versions: A for adults B children
B A
THE FUTURE OF HEARING HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Missing Link Series
Instant Ear Molds – For NGOs only
Instant Ear Mold
• Delivers a custom-molded earpiece in 4 minutes.
• The fitting-system houses all the components and provides the proper orientation during the customization process.
US$12.00/per ear Normal price $25 + 2 fittings
+ cost of transport
THE FUTURE OF HEARING HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Missing Link Series
The Body Worn Hearing
Body Worn Hearing Aid
MIT and its NGO onto the developing world, Design That Matters are developing stage 1 of a solar powered hearing aid that can be self adjusted and requires no testing.
THE FUTURE OF HEARING HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Missing Link Series
Outcome
A hearing aid, solar charger and batteries under 80 Euro
Over 50,000 sold in 31 countries !!!!
Revenues invested in new product technologies & educational program.
Environmental contribution: 200,000,000 batteries
Interest on this type projects in other countries
Each new project brings economies of scale for all.
Hearing impaired Bangladeshi child at the Rosi-Flower School for Hearing Impaired Children in Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Impacts
Increase wealth of population due to more children going to school and more adults being employable
Reduce social and economic costs of hearing impairment
Self-sustaining Solar Ear programs
Changed civil society perception of skills of people who are deaf.
Programs and practices can be scaled to many more countries and health problems
Impact Deaf education programs on HIV-AIDS s
Greater access for people with special needs in civil society.
Healthier, better educated person.
Reasons to stay healthy
Education program - Brazil
Workers who are deaf - Botswana
•Ashoka- Fellowship
•Lemelson Foundation - Fellowship
•Tech Award- Economic Empowerment
•American academy of Audiology Humanitarian
•Marion Downs- Souring Heights- China
•Alex Graham Bell Museum – Permanent exhibit
•National Design Center of the Design -Smithsonian Museum
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Awards- Solar Ear
Solar Ear
Solar Ear
01 / Azul
02 / Ambev
03 / Petrobras
04 / Osklen
05 / Embrapa
06 / Gerdau
07 / Natura
08 / Embraer
09 / Metalfrio Solutions
10 / Solar Ear
One of the 10 MOST INNOVATIVE companies in Brazil according to,
Kahil Gibran once said: “ When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns into music. To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. All work is empty save when there is love made visible."
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