I know this is not an ordinary contest who could win cash prizes and valuable things but if you join this contest, you may change a child’s life for good.

Before anything else, please see this vintage necklaces as a prizes for the contest. Please select one as a prize. This will be shipped within the Philippines.

Here are the prizes. Please choose only 1. Only 1 person could win the prize as I don’t have enough money for the shipment. Hope you understand. This contest will end April 5, 2011. Thank you for joining!

SPONSORS ARE WELCOME! Just email me at gracearreza@gmail.com.

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I am Grace Arreza, a mother of Kassandra Ghiege Arreza Ocanada, asking for help to spread this out just trying to find people who are willing to help us financially. Even a cent will be a great help already.

Here are the mechanics:

1. Tweet about this contest
2. Post this contest on your Facebook wall
3. Blog this contest (if you have blogs)
4. Put button on your sidebar and link to this entry
5. comment here with your email address and the prize you have chosen (choose 1 only)

Winners will be announced on April 6, 2011. All entries will be raffled in randomized

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Please visit these links also:

1. A Cent for Kassandra’s Hearing aid – Blog
2. A Cent for Kassandra’s Hearing Aid – Facebook
3. ABR Hearing Test Photos
4. ABR Hearing Test Results

I am a mother of a deaf child Kassandra Ghiege Arreza Ocanada. I am just a blogger who earns money from blogging as my source of income and my husband (actually, my live-in partner for almost 3 years.) is a laborer who earns a little wage just enough for our daily needs. When I notice that my child cannot hear, I immediately went to a hearing specialist to confirm if she can’t really hear. After OAE (otoacoustic emissions) and ABR (Auditory Brainstem Response) hearing tests, we, our family confirmed that she is possitive of deafness. She has a congenital deafness, that’s what the specialist told us. Then he referred us to Manila Hearing Aid in Cebu. The expert measured her ears with the hearing aids and named the price for each of the hearing aid. The brand is phonak and the price is P53,000.00 or $1,232.56 for each. She needs two hearing aid because the right and left ear are positive of deafness.

I asked them if there is lower price than the hearing aid they recommended us and they told me that they have for 35,000 pesos each. But they reminded us that it is better to buy the hearing aid the suits and fits for the child because for the children, they have some kind of noise canceler so that they will not be disturbed by the unwanted sounds that may affect the hearing of the child using the hearing aid, unlike for the older ones.

It’s hurting me that I can’t afford the hearing aid she need but what hurt me most is seeing her the will to learn to talk but she just can’t because she can’t hear anything. Do you know what she did, she open her mouth, acting like she can talk but there’s no sound coming out. She maybe thought that we also did that, though we open our mouth but she just can’t hear our voice when we talk. She is a happy child and smart one. I am praying that sooner we can buy hearing aid for her so that we can teach her how to talk because in her age, she can still learn things fast specially in speech.