Lucy has made the big leap!

Little Lucy from Kalay in western Myanmar has made her way into a normal life.

After a preliminary examination during a surgery week in early 2019, the EAGLE ENT medical team had to inform the mother of the then almost two-year-old that her daughter was deaf. At that time, any adequate treatment seemed financially unthinkable. No chance.

It was only through the Angelika Wagner Project of EAGLE - European Association of Global Lecturing ENT e.V. (www.eagle-ent.org), which was founded by means of a generous donation, that Lucy could be fitted with a cochlear implant. This hearing system, which was inserted by the Burmese ENT doctor Dr. Win Htike Kyi, enables her to hear artificially and thus learn to speak.

In the meantime, Lucy is already babbling simple words quite happily and is currently practising the Burmese alphabet and counting.