Our Cause
Imagine not being able to hear your favourite song or the sound of a loved one’s voice.
For over 400,000 BC residents who suffer from severe hearing loss, that’s a reality – one that our Hearing Foundation is working to change.
For over 40 years, the Rotary Club of Vancouver’s Hearing Foundation has provided life-changing care for children and adults with hearing disorders. From funding Canada’s first-ever Cochlear Implant surgery in 1982, to completing over 770 surgeries and committing $6 million dollars to revolutionize patient care, our mission to bring back the sounds of life guides us in all we do.
Help restore the sounds of life.
I once struggled and gave in to isolation, but now have so many of the amazing sounds of life restored to me, most importantly the voices of family, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers.”
Claire
Cochlear implant recipient
Hearing Initiatives
BC Rotary Hearing and Balance Centre
The Hearing Foundation has committed $6 million for the creation of a new Hearing and Balance Centre at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. By offering cutting-edge options for testing, diagnostics, and research all in one place, the Centre will revolutionize care for BC patients with hearing loss.
Rotary Hearing Clinics
Along with funding the Hearing and Balance Centre at St. Paul’s and over 750 life-changing Cochlear Implant surgeries, the Foundation has established the Hearing Centre at UBC, and supported the work of BC Children’s Hospital’s Hearing and Speech Centre, BC Family Hearing Resource Centre, Vancouver Community College and the Hearing Foundation of Canada.
With your help we’ve been able to restore the ability to hear to over 700 patients and counting. Learn more about the important work funded by this foundation.