Help Guide The Blind!

We both love dogs and feel very strongly about their welfare, we also think that blind people deserve to live normally and have a happy life. Not many people know what guides dogs do so hopefully when you’ve read our blog you will know about the problems blind people face and feel that you want to help.

This blog is about the organisation Guide Dogs which trains guide dogs from a young age to become an assistor to a person with sight loss.  We are trying to raise awareness about guide dogs and what they do, how a guide dog can change someone’s life and how hard it is to live life with sight loss and blindness. Guide dogs is a magnificent organisation as it not only helps partially sighted people live life to the full but it finds dogs a home with food and shelter, there is one problem though- money, without your co-operation, support and donations they cannot do this.

Guide dogs create new friendships and strong bonds. A dog might just be a dog to you but to someone else a dog could be a friend, family, company, a helper etc.   Guide dogs also campaign for the right of blind people “Visual impairment is a fact of life for thousands of people, and with an ageing population many more will be affected by sight loss in the future.  We campaign alongside visually-impaired people for rights that most sighted people take for granted.  These include access to services and transport, freedom of mobility, and provision of better rehabilitation services.  Working closely with guide dog owners, service providers, other voluntary organisation and MPs, we've won major victories and have successfully lobbied to influence policies and legislation.” If you were blind wouldn’t you want help and someone to fight for your rights?

Thank you so much again for reading our blog. Please can you now leave a response with your thoughts and your answers to the questions below and help in any way you feel you can.  More information can be found at http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/ please help give more blind people the life they deserve!
strongly about their welfare, we also think that blind people deserve to live normally and have a happy life. Not many people know what guides dogs do so hopefully when you’ve read our blog you will know about the problems blind people face and feel that you want to help.

• Do you now feel that you are more informed on ‘guide dogs’?
• Do you know feel more informed about the issues blind/ partially sighted people face?
• Would you now be prepared to do any of the following things to help improve the lives of people who are blind or partially sighted? …

1. Make a donation to ‘guide dogs’? Or sponsor a dog?
2. Start or join a fund raising campaign?
3. Sign up to receive information about the work of ‘guide dogs’?
4. Buy merchandise (cards, diary’s, calendars, jewellery, stationary etc.)from ‘guide dogs’
5. Volunteer?
6. Tell your friends and family about ‘guide dogs’ and try to persuade them to help out in any of the ways above?

If you do post a response, please can you tell me where you come from i.e. home town &country (if not UK)

Many thanks!
Hannah and Kara