Raise a Guide Dog or Watch One Graduate
June 29, 2007
Volunteer puppy raisers learn how to teach guide-dogs-in-training good manners & socialize them. No previous experience is necessary. Volunteers receive 8-week-old pups and train them for 12-18 months.
Find out how to become a puppy raiser or attend a Guide Dogs for the Blind graduation ceremony at www.guidedogs.com.
#1 Cause of Preventable Blindness
June 3, 2007
“Nobody need suffer a life of misery, pain, eventual blindness, and early death from their trachoma. We have for trachoma a strategy that works, and we’ve applied it successfully in southern Sudan–which is the most difficult place to work in the world–and made it work.”
–Dr. Paul Emerson, director of the Carter Center’s Trachoma Control Program, from Laura Svienty’s “Into Africa” piece on the Carter Center’s fight against controllable blindness
Click link to read “Into Africa” piece: http://philanthroflash.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/0707_featcarter_v3.pd
