Foundations for Progress™ partners with volunteer hearing care professionals and non-profit organizations to provide sustainable access to hearing care and hearing solutions for people and communities around the world. These collaborative initiatives may include programs, resources and other forms of aid that deliver immediate lasting benefits for people and communities with hearing loss and the communities that serve them.

The Oticon Hearing Foundation, in partnership with the American Academy of Audiology Foundation (AAAF), joined together to underwrite the cost for two audiologists to join a unique humanitarian mission to remote riverfront communities near Parintins, Brazil. The practitioners selected for Project Amazon will work side-by-side with staff from the Oticon Clinic in Parintins. The non-profit clinic is a service of the Viva o Som Foundation, a group dedicated to securing financial and human resources to improve the quality of life of people in Brazil’s most impoverished communities.