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In November 2008, The Hearing and Speech Foundation launched the Hearing Aid Recycling Program (HARP) in order to help offset the cost of hearing aids for our patients. Recycled aids are essential to our hearing aid assistance program since they may be repaired and placed on individuals who cannot afford hearing aids.

Outdated, broken or damaged hearing aids can be donated to the program and sent back to the original manufacture to be used for parts. Newer aids can be used immediately. In the first year alone, over 400 aids were put on Foundation patients, saving the Foundation close to $20,000 in hearing aid costs.

Current partners of this program include the Alcoa Rotary Club and the Lions Club. All donated aids are considered a charitable contribution to the Foundation.

For more information about the program, email or call the Foundation at (865) 977.0981.

All donated hearing aids can be mailed to the Foundation office:
The Hearing and Speech Foundation
Hearing Aid Recycling Program
1619 E. Broadway Ave.
Maryville, TN 37804

Aids can also be dropped at The Begin Again Shoppe in Morristown, Tenn., an official donation site for the Foundation.