Guide dogs lead the way
She said that guide dogs are very admirable, as they are good-natured and sociable animals.
The Bedfordview Rotary Club recently attended an annual function of the South African Guide-Dogs Association for the Blind (SAGA) where the visually impaired are joined with guide dogs.
“Guide dogs don’t just provide independence and freedom. They also break down barriers and initiate conversations,” said president of the Bedfordview Rotary Club Jackie Bebbington.
She said guide dogs are admirable, as they are good-natured and sociable animals.
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“When Gladys Evans stepped onto South African soil in the early 1950s, accompanied by the very first South African guide dog, Sheena, who would have thought it was the beginning of a whole new freedom for all of those visually impaired South Africans who wished to share such freedom?” said Bebbington.
Bebbington said Evans wanted to share her joy with other visually impaired and in October 1953 founded the South African Guide-Dogs Association for the Blind.
She said today, SAGA is still the only organisation of its kind on the African continent.
