Thalia Lizvette Lopez, a biology major at the University of Guadalajara, spends around four hours every day hopping buses for the round trip between her home in Ajijic and the study facilities located on the northeast rim of the city.

Sixteen Lakeside children, 12 from the Lakeside School for the Deaf and Children with Special Needs and four others from the general community, were recently the recipients of new hearing aids provided by the Starkey Hearing Foundation’s “So the World May Hear” world outreach program.