A small team of us here at DHL Supply Chain are working on a CSR project to help the Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) charity, and we need your help!!! The team at MDD are applying their expertise to investigate whether medical detection dogs can be trained to detect COVID-19. Experience tells us that they can, and we believe that this could be an important part of the efforts to overcome this epidemic.

The charity have started first-stage training with 6 dogs identified as having the potential for this work. Further funding is essential to help accelerate the time frame by facilitating quicker sample collection and giving them greater resources for training the dogs.

How Can You Help?

To this end a small group of us are undertaking a virtual fundraising walk of 874 miles, the distance from John O’Groats to Land’s End. We will do this throughout 30 days in September and we have set ourselves a fundraising target of £2,800 in order to sponsor one of these remarkable dogs.

The Fundraising Team

Kev Tully, Nick Hill, Tracy Thomas, Simon Millard, Mike Hembury, Marta Jurek, Malgorzata Sciuk, Charlotte Tullock, Tony Gillman, Eugeniu Bantea.

The charity is also one that is close to home for us all of here at DHL...

This is Jeff’s story

A few years ago, Jeff Annell, a DHL employee based from our Cherwell 2 site, took home his new Old English Sheep Dog puppy, Holly. Jeff had had this breed before so knew of their foibles, however Holly showed some behaviors that he had not seen before. She would stand in front of Jeff and bark at him for apparently no reason. She would also climb up onto his lap and put her nose to his mouth. Jeff sought the advice of MDD, who suggested he visit the doctor in case Holly was detecting something.

Unfortunately the prognosis was not good. In 2014, Jeff was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal cancer and was given 18 months to live. Thankfully, Jeff has defied the odds and is very much still with us today!

He continues his work as an ambassador for Medical Detection Dogs. We use his story as inspiration. We will help however we can.

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