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Meet Ibrahim Senfuma is a Ugandan bird guide used by St. Andrew’s Anglican Church parishioners Alison and Stewart Bentley in 2022. Ibrah is experiencing severe hearing loss which is negatively affecting his ability to do his guiding job, which depends heavily on being able to recognize bird sounds.

Impacted first by the almost complete shut down of his country and the tourist trade owing to COVID and then dealt another blow recently when Ebola again slowed tourism, Ibrah is in no position to afford the hearing aids he so desperately needs. It is not just a quality of life issue for him as is entire livelihood is threatened. There are no social financial safety nets in Uganda.

We have put Ibrah in touch with the resources he needs to get the correct specialized hearing aids. Recently he went to Kampala, got a prescription, and was recommended the best aids to help him to hear birds and start work again. The Starkey Foundation, which makes those aids, was contacted and they referred us to their Uganda clinic.

The doctor there, Muhammad, has offered a discount.

By Wilma Kenny Frontenac County Updating its Strategic Plan

Jason Kipfler, consultant from Explorer Solutions, came to Council on behalf of Frontenac County to discuss the development of a new four-year County Strategic Plan. He asked Councillors what they thought the County should be focussing on, the most important services provided by the County to to the Township, and how the County could better help and collaborate with the Township.