Who will look the brightest on Loud Shirt Day?

Be a star on Loud Shirt Day – Friday September 17, 2010 – and help deaf kids learn to listen and talk like their hearing friends. If you’ve taken part in Loud Shirt Day before you’ll know it’s a great way to commit serious fashion crimes and have a whole lot of fun at work or at school. And if this is your first year being involved with Loud Shirt Day, we know you’ll have a fabulous time wowing your colleagues and friends with your brightest, funkiest shirt.

Loud Shirt Day is the annual appeal of The Hearing House and the Southern Cochlear Implant Paediatric Programme. So what are you waiting for? Register for free now, knowing the money that you donate has a life-changing impact on deaf children.

Lance Cairns swaps his cricket whites for a Loud Shirt

Cricketing hero Lance Cairns is swapping his cricket whites for a loud shirt in support of Loud Shirt Day on September 17.

Cairns, 60, became an international cricketing legend when he hit six sixes off 10 balls against Australia in 1983. Now he’s helping a cause that has huge personal significance – deafness. Cairns began going deaf in his 20s – meaning he hardly the crowd cheering at that 1983 match. Late last year he received a cochlear implant which has allowed him to hear properly for the first time in 30 years. He says the implant has given him “a second life”.  Now he’s supporting Loud Shirt Day which raises money for deaf children in New Zealand who have cochlear implants.

Loud Shirt Day helps The Hearing House and Southern Cochlear Implant Paediatric Programme provide free specialised therapy that teaches deaf children how to listen and speak like their hearing friends. Register now to help improve deaf kids’ lives.