Former Kansas center Cole Aldrich of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and his wife, Britt, recently returned from a mission to Peru with Starkey Hearing Foundation, a company that provides hearing aids to the needy.
“It was unbelievable. It was awesome. To help people … we had almost 1,000 people we fit for hearing aids,” Aldrich said Wednesday in an interview with radio station WCCO in Minneapolis.
He explained the process.
“You sit them down, talk to them a little bit, make them feel a little comfortable. Once you fit them and they can hear you, their eyes light up,” said Aldrich, 28, a member of KU’s 2008 NCAA championship team.