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

Mission

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."