The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation helped seven-year-old Danylo, a native of Kryvyi Rih

The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation continues to help children with hearing problems. Within the framework of the project Rinat Akhmetov to Children. Now I Can Hear, 189 highly sensitive hearing aids have already been installed.

One of the project participants was Danylo Kravtsov from Kryvyi Rih. The boy just loves trams, and would like to work in this field in the future. Dania can only hear loud tram signals. He can barely make out  quiet sounds. Alla, the boy's mother, started suspecting her son had health problems a few years ago. Doctors found that the child had sensorineural hearing loss (third degree) and recommended installing hearing prosthetics.

"Hearing prosthetics are the devices set up in accordance with audiogram. A person's hearing loss is balanced by the device up to scale of the number of decibels that is required for the audiogram. These are mini-computers are very expensive. Thus, not every family can raise moeny to buy a pair of hearing aids," Iryna Bannyk, a hearing prosthetist, explained.

 It is especially important for children to have high-quality digital devices.  Babies learn to pronounce words correctly only with hearing correction. Danylo's parents couldn't afford the device. Only the father is employed now. The mother is pregnant with the second child. The Kravtsovs turned to the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation for help.

"He always asked again, "Mother, what did you say?" Now he can hear very well. So, thank you very much for helping my son.  Now he is able to study well at school. He can hear very well. He will not lag behind now. He couldn't hear what the teacher said without hearing aids and, thus, made mistakes," Alla Kravtsova added.

Now his parents have a dream that Dania will become what he always wanted to be– to run a tram depot or metro.