I already miss football season, so when I heard some good news from the NFL camp, I just had to share … here’s to ended lockout talks next!
Adrian Peterson, PROS FOR AFRICA
Throughout the month of March, the Starkey Hearing Foundation, dedicated to building better lives for the hearing impaired by providing hearing instruments to those in need, embarked on a 24-day mission to Africa to deliver more than 22,000 state-of-art hearing devices to children and adults across the continent.
Marlee Matlin, a cast member of this season’s The Celebrity Apprentice and a team of professional football players with PROS FOR AFRICA, a non-profit relief organization providing basic needs to the children of Africa, traveled to Africa with with Starkey staff to distribute the hearing aids.
PROS FOR AFRICA football stars participating in the hearing mission to Africa include Larry Fitzgerald Jr. (Arizona Cardinals), Adrian Peterson (Minnesota Vikings), brothers Vernon Davis (San Francisco 49ers) and Vontae Davis (Miami Dolphins), Roy Williams (Cincinnati Bengals), Bryant McKinnie (Minnesota Vikings), Tommie Harris (former Chicago Bears), Gerald McCoy (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Derrick Morgan (Tennessee Titans), and Santonio Holmes (New York Jets).
“The Starkey Hearing Foundation has been an ideal partner for PROS FOR AFRICA,” said Adrian Peterson, who attended Starkey’s Super Bowl Mission in Dallas and the Raise Your Hand for Africa Poker Tournament in Las Vegas, both held last month. “Together we are helping one another realize both of our missions by making a meaningful impact in the lives of African families and children.”
The Starkey Hearing Foundation is striving to change the social consciousness of hearing and hearing loss prevention. Hearing loss affects one in 10 Americans, and 63 million children worldwide. Each year, the Foundation delivers more than 100,000 hearing aids through hearing missions in countries stretching from the U.S. to Vietnam. For more info: starkeyhearingfoundation.org.