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Contribute to a top class partnership between a special Seeing Eye Dog guide and an Australian who is blind. It takes two years and around $30,000 to train a Seeing Eye Dog.
Your sponsorship of a puppy will mean someone who is blind or has low vision will get the freedom and independence a working dog can provide. The best part is you get to share the journey with your puppy through photos and letters telling you how he or she is growing up and all the things they're learning. This is lots of fun to read and share with family and friends. You'll also get our newsletter PAWS which tells you all about what is happening at Camp SEDA. |
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The annual SEDA Meet and Greet Day was held on Sunday 16 October and more than 500 sponsors and supporters came from all over Qld and NSW to meet their very own sponsor pup.
Guests enjoyed a delicious BBQ lunch, live entertainment and a demonstration from a working Seeing Eye Dog.
There was heaps to do for the kids, with a jumping castle, colouring in and 11 puppies to pat and cuddle.
Supporters were able to chat one on one with the wonderful puppy carer volunteers and staff and learn all about what it takes to become a Seeing Eye Dog.
Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers who made the day possible and our friends from Trilby Misso.
Help Seeing Eye Dogs like Cooper become super!
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Cooper |
Hi, I'm Leigh, the General Manager of Seeing Eye Dogs Australia. I started working here seven years ago and arrived with a personal appreciation of the devastating impact vision loss can affect. My father's vision is severely impaired by macular degeneration.
It was extremely hard for Dad to lose his independence and confidence as he became reliant on other people just to get through each day. And I know from speaking to each of SEDA's clients that many people like him feel just as devastated by vision loss.
To sit at home waiting for someone to take you shopping, or not being able to stay in touch with news in the paper makes you feel terribly isolated, lonely and depressed.
That's why your support of our Seeing Eye Dogs programme is so vitally important. Each amazing dog really does have super skills that can absolutely change a person's life, by giving them the freedom and mobility to explore the world on their own terms.
Cooper is one of the incredibly smart dogs about to start his intensive training and will soon learn how to use his initiative and super intelligence to protect the safety of his handler. Because each dog is so superbly trained, their handler knows they can trust them one hundred percent.
Can you imagine entrusting your life and safety completely to a dog's training? You'd need to be absolutely sure that the dog won't make a mistake. That's why it costs SEDA around $30,000 - and takes up to two years - to train each Seeing Eye Dog.
Puppies are waiting and people in need are waiting - will you support our special Spring Appeal today?
Please donate online or by calling 1800 42 20 77.
SEDA Lottery
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Win cars and vouchers for travel and cash for your bank account when you buy SEDA lottery tickets.
Your contribution will help in many areas of SEDA to enhance the mobility and independence of people who are blind or vision impaired throughout Australia by providing Seeing Eye Dogs, mobility training and rehabilitation services free of charge.
Buy a lottery ticket to help Seeing Eye Dogs undertake valuable training.
