Former President George W. Bush has signed on with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to help give away hearing aids to people with hearing loss in Africa. Last week, he joined a Starkey Foundation mission in Tanzania where a team fit 222 people with custom hearing aids.
Bush has had an interest in Africa since he served as president, when he surprised many of his critics by taking the lead on providing assistance in managing the HI/AIDS crisis in Africa.
The former president’s daughter Barbara Bush, CEO and cofounder of Global Health Corps, is also a supporter of the Starkey Hearing Foundation who joined Starkey founder William Austin on a mission to Uganda last year.