For years, the Bayat Foundation has been proud to partner with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to bring the gift of hearing to those deaf and hard of hearing in Afghanistan. Our most recent mission was able to reach over 1,000 Afghans from across the country. Most gratifyingly, we were able to visit with some of the Afghan children we first helped back in 2014 and see the amazing progress they have been making now that they are able to hear. It is both humbling and inspiring to see the ways the Afghan children we reach are able to use their hearing aids to transform their own lives.