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http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/news-article.aspx?storyid=62451
Little Amina can't hear the bombs and bullets that rake through Baghdad. That may be a good thing. But she also has never heard her mother and father tell her they love her. The three-year-old Iraqi girl has been deaf since birth.
With the help of the US Army in Iraq and the Miami-based International Kids Fund, Amina was flown to the United States on Sunday for a procedure at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Medical Center that will bring sound to her life.
The IKF launched an effort today to raise 40-thousand dollars to pay for a cochlear implant to be surgically placed in Amina's ear. The device turns sound into electrical impulses that activate the hearing nerve, allowing the deaf to hear.
The long journey from Baghdad to Miami began with an e-mail detailing Amina's plight that eventually reached an Army special forces doctor. That doctor's wife contacted a former colleague now at Miami's Miller School of Medicine who specializes in cochlear implants.
Little Amina can't hear the bombs and bullets that rake through Baghdad. That may be a good thing. But she also has never heard her mother and father tell her they love her. The three-year-old Iraqi girl has been deaf since birth.
With the help of the US Army in Iraq and the Miami-based International Kids Fund, Amina was flown to the United States on Sunday for a procedure at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Medical Center that will bring sound to her life.
The IKF launched an effort today to raise 40-thousand dollars to pay for a cochlear implant to be surgically placed in Amina's ear. The device turns sound into electrical impulses that activate the hearing nerve, allowing the deaf to hear.
The long journey from Baghdad to Miami began with an e-mail detailing Amina's plight that eventually reached an Army special forces doctor. That doctor's wife contacted a former colleague now at Miami's Miller School of Medicine who specializes in cochlear implants.
