Quota clubs will again be supporting LOUD Shirt Day on Friday 17 September.  What is LOUD Shirt Day?  It’s a chance to wear your loudest and brightest shirts to work or school (mufti day) and make a donation to give deaf children a voice.

Loud Shirt Day is the annual appeal of The Hearing House and the Southern Cochlear Implant Paediatric Programme, two independent charities who are dedicated to enabling deaf children with a cochlear implant to listen and speak like their hearing peers.

This is one day a year where everyone can commit some serious fashion crimes by stepping out in their loudest, brightest shirts. You’ll have a whole lot of fun and also be helping give deaf children a voice!

Because hearing aids cannot enable children with a profound hearing loss to hear speech, cochlear implants were developed and are now provided to deaf children throughout New Zealand. Unlike hearing aids, which make sound louder, a cochlear implant works by imitating the function of the inner ear so children who are born profoundly deaf or lose their hearing through illness or accident, can hear. This is followed by additional support, at The Hearing House in Auckland, to learn how to listen with their cochlear implant and understand spoken language.

To participate in Loud Shirt Day simply register your school, company or organisation online. www.loudshirtday.co.nz  it’s not too late for a 2010 Loud Shirt Day Pack to be sent so you can make 17 September one of the brightest days of the year!  

Register Now! www.loudshirtday.co.nz