Description:
Hearing Improvement Kids Endowment, the HIKE Fund Inc, is the continuing philanthropic project of Jobs Daughters International. The purpose of the fund is to provide hearing devices for children with hearing losses between the ages of newborn and twenty years whose parents are unable to meet this special needs financially. Children are eligible to receive a grant providing the need is verified by a prescription from an audiologist or physician. The Fund has also awarded many types of devices including, but not limited to, hearing aids, FM systems, closed caption converters, tactile units, alerting systems, and specialized sports equipment, to aid children with hearing loss in communication.