San Antonio Students, we hear you.

     The Foundation was made aware of an unfortunate situation that occurred in December of 2006. We were informed that four members of a hearing impaired family perished in a house fire. It was very evident that the family could not respond to the normal smoke alarms in the dwelling. Fred Lozano from KENS5-TV asked for help in his news story about the fire.

     In the KENS 5 news story, Fred visited hearing impaired students in Stevenson Middle School. To the students of Stevenson Middle School, we saw and heard your concern and your request for help. We are mobilizing and organizing some of our volunteer group and gathering up alarms. We plan on being at your school on Feb 9, 2007. Our executive director, Gary Johnson, will be there to help the process and to meet with other members of the San Antonio business community seeking additional support to lessen this serious safety need.

     Over the last few days, we have been in contact with school officials, the San Antonio Fire Dept and KENS5-TV. We will have enough alarms at that time to supply each hearing impaired student's family one of the alarms. This will be the first of what appears to be a daunting task once we learned that in the San Antonio school system alone has more than 500 students that are hearing impaired or deaf.

     We would like to thank Fred Lozano and KENS5-TV for airing the news segments. For those of you not in the San Antonio area here is a link to the latest broadcast

KENS 5 Broadcast

     To any of our readers out there that would be willing to help us help the San Antonio students, please send us an email through the contact us link and reference it San Antonio Project

     To those that have watched the link above, the following link is the reason we came to San Antonio.  Listen to the comments by students and by the fire chief.  Spend two minutes to see the story

KENS 5 Broadcast