March 15, 2006
Successful departure
The last few days have been VERY hectic for the entire WFH-team. A lot of things had to be done before departure.
At 8:00 AM this morning the team gathered with family and friends. Johan started off with a stunning presentation about hearing impairment and the project itself. He also took the opportunity to thank all sponsors, partners, WFH-headquarter and all family/friends. The project would not have come this far without all the help and support from them all. After the presentation everybody went out to the aeroplane to take a look at it. Johan gave a live interview in Swedish television and then it was time for everybody to take farewell and wish them good luck.
Johan, Martin and Henrik started to taxi away, took off and waved goodbye with their wings!
Please read the Expedition blog for updates.
February 18, 2006
The countdown has started
It is now less than a month to departure and the WFH-team is working with full throttle (speed) with the final preparations.
January 26, 2006
WFH visits Briskeby school outside Oslo, Norway.
Johan Hammarström gives a speech on "Reaching goals with a hearing impairment" for hearing impaired students.
December 9-10, 2005
Lectures in Norway
Friday: Lecture by Johan Hammarström at A.C.Møller school in Trondheim, Norway. The lecture will be held for hearing impared students and their teachers.
Saturday: Lecture by Johan Hammarström at the norwegian youth association prehearing impared (HLFU) annual conference.
October 15, 2005
WFH participates at day for Hard of Hearing in Örebro, Sweden
At the HRF conference in Örebro, Johan gave an interesting speech about the latest and greatest of the World Flight for Hearing project.
In connection to the conference, much appreciated scenic flights for hard-of-hearing children was arranged at Örebro Airport. A large number of young co-pilots had the chance to fly with the WFH team.
September 23, 2005
WFH gives a speech in Falun, Sweden
At the 50-year anniversary of the Hearing Health Care of Dalarna, Sweden, WFH participated.
September 6, 2005
First page reports about World Flight for Hearing on two websites
Both Youth hear-it.org and hear-it.org. present reports about WFH on first page.
July, 2005
GN ReSound and World Flight for Hearing ink principal sponsor agreement
World Flight for Hearing is very pleased to announce that it has signed a principal sponsor agreement with leading hearing instrument vendor GN ReSound. Under the agreement GN ReSound is sponsoring the project financially and WFH will bring added value to GN ReSounds marketing efforts in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
The principal sponsor agreement with GN ReSound secures necessary fundings for completing the project. WFH is both proud and honored to have the opportunity to work closely with a very well recognized and well reputed company as GN ReSound. For more information about GN ReSound please visit http://www.gnresound.com/. for more informatin about WFH sponsors please click here.
May 26, 2005
WFH participates at SvAf Conference in Helsingborg, Sweden
World Flight for Hearing is honored to be invited to the
Swedish Audiologist Association Conference in Southern Sweden in May
2005. More information about SvAf (Svenska Audionomföreningen) is
available here.
April 8-9, 2005
Information about WFH at EFHOH AGM in Netherlands
April 2, 2005
The Magazine for the Norwegian Association for Hard of Hearing people Din Hørsel publishes and article about WFH.
March 18, 2005
WFH participates at STAF Conference in Västerås, Sweden
World Flight for Hearing will participate at STAF 2005
(Swedish Technical Association of Audiology). Read more about STAF.
December 14, 2004
Report about WFH in December issue of IFHOH Journal
In the last issue of IFHOH Journal 2004 there is some
interesting reading about WFH. IFHOH Journal is available for
download here.
November 13-14, 2004
WFH participates at conference for young hard of hearing pople in Söderhamn, Sweden
Johan Hammarström gives a speech on the subject "World Flight for Hearing - Reaching goals with a hearing impairment" on national conference for young hard of hearing people. The conference will be held in Söderhamn in Sweden.
October 23, 2004
Johan Hammarström gives a presentation in Dalarna, Sweden
On the HRF-day where the famous former skier Tomas Fogdö participates among others, WFH will give a speech about the project.
October 16, 2004
Johan Hammarström gives a presentation in Norrköping, Sweden
Johan Hammarström gives a speech on the subject "World Flight for Hearing - Reaching goals with a hearing impairment" on the hard of hearing people's day, arranged by HRF in Norrköping.
October 15, 2004
The Finish Magazine Kuuloviesti-magazin publishes an article about WFH in the October issue.
October 5, 2004
Report on World Flight for Hearing in Swedish TV program Östnytt
September 25, 2004
Johan Hammarström gives a speech in Sotenäs,
Sweden
Johan Hammarström gives a speech on the subject "World
Flight for Hearing - Reaching goals with a hearing impairment" on the
HRF Seminar in Sotenäs.
September 19, 2004
Article about World Flight for Hearing in Swedish newspaper Folkbladet
Read the article on Folkbladet's website (in Swedish only).
September 18, 2004
Article published in Expressen - Sweden's second biggest evening paper
September 17, 2004
World Flight for Hearing participates at the National Congress for the Swedish Association of Hard of Hearing People
The National Congress is held once every four years and more
than 300 representatives from Swedish local organizations participates
at the congress. World Flight for Hearing was invited to participate at
the congress. One of the highlights was when Johan Hammarström
flew Elvis, aka Thomas Lindberg, to Norrköping in a small sport
aircraft. Thomas Lindberg is hearing impaired but has reached one of
his goals of becoming an artist. Thomas has been very successful and he
also has much in common with WFH. We we are very pleased to see this
similar initiative.
Photos by Per Wichmann © 2004.
September 17, 2004
Article published in Sweden's biggest evening paper Aftonbladet
Aftonbladet publishes an article about Johan Hammarström
and World Flight for Hearing. Aftonbladet is Sweden's biggest evening
paper with more than one million readers daily. Read
the article on
Aftonbladet (in Swedish only).
July 7, 2004
IFHOH becomes official partner with World Flight for Hearing
During IFHOH's annual meeting decision was taken to officially support World Flight for Hearing. IFHOH considers the project as a serious and a efficient way to get further in their continuous work to their goals to spread information about Hard of Hearing world wide.
14 national Hard of Hearing organizations inks "Letter of Support" with World Flight for Hearing. During the congress a total of 28 letters of support are signed and 14 of these by representatives from official national Hard of Hearing organizations.
July 4-9, 2004
WFH attends the IFHOH 7:th international congress in Helsinki, Finland.
During the congress, Johan Hammarström gives two speeches on the World Flight for Hearing project. Visit Kuulonhuoltoliitto ry for more information.
June 19, 2004
The magazine Auris writes an article about WFH.
May 14, 2004
Johan Hammarström gives a speech on WFH, on HRF representative meeting in Stockholm.
May, 2004
HRF becomes official partner with World Flight for Hearing
Jan-Peter Strömgren, chairman for Swedish Association of Hard of Hearing People (HRF), declares that the organization officially supports World Flight for Hearing. This means that many of the activities before, during and after the completion of the WFH project will be conducted in cooperation with HRF. In the summer edition of the Magazine Auris, Strömgren present the cooperation.
May 1, 2004
World Flight for Hearing launches new web page
WFH is proud to present our new web page. The page will initially be updated about once a month but as the adventure is approaching, it will be updated on a more frequent basis.