Collaboration BOA Foundation and Lalla Asmae Foundation
The Lalla Asmae Foundation is a Moroccan foundation that is involved in caring for deaf children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The program is called Nasmaa and helps hundreds of children regain their hearing and learn to speak, with cochlear implants *.
These children are mostly Moroccan, but the campaign is now taking on a continental dimension thanks to a collaboration with the BOA Foundation.
Indeed, 25 children from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Niger and Senegal have just arrived in Morocco with a parent for a cochlear implantation operation.
The families are also accompanied by a speech pathologist who will be trained and will provide post-operative follow-up for speech acquisition.
Operations run from October 17 to November 19, 2022.
This sub-Saharan component was made possible through the involvement of the BOA Foundations and their Chairmen, Bank MDs and Lions
Club teams, all of whom supported this initiative and provided valuable logistical and administrative support.
Video of the ceremony here :
* This system transforms analog sounds into digital signals transmitted to the nerves.
The deaf child hears what they are told and can then learn to speak.
