✨️ Help Matilda Hear Both Sides of Her World ✨️

Matilda was born in 2022 and was diagnosed Deaf at just five weeks old. She is profoundly deaf in her left ear and has moderate hearing loss in her right. Alongside this, she lives with multiple complex medical needs, including BPVC vertigo, developmental delay, Autism, eczema, and a rare genetic condition called Gorlin Syndrome, which brings a 90% lifetime risk of skin cancer.

Over the last three and a half years, Matilda has endured endless tests, surgeries, and is constantly changing hearing devices, to find something that can give her the best access to sound. This inconsistency has meant she’s been unable to develop spoken language. She communicates using BSL signs, gestures, and facial expressions, and becomes frustrated when she can’t make herself understood—despite having so much to say.

Matilda currently has no hearing at all in her left ear. The NHS will not fund a cochlear implant due to strict criteria, but St Thomas’ Hospital in London can offer this life-changing surgery privately—at a cost of over £60,000.

A cochlear implant would give Matilda the chance to hear, reduce her daily fatigue and frustration, and offer her the best possible opportunity to develop spoken language and fully engage with the world around her.

Every donation, no matter how small, brings Matilda one step closer to hearing. Please donate if you can, and share her story far and wide.

Thank you for helping our beautiful Matilda ❤️