BIAH Scales Ben Nevis for Dogs for the Disabled

Michael Sullivan is raising money for Dogs for the Disabled
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BIAH Scales Ben Nevis · 28 September 2023

Dogs for the Disabled is a National Charity and the only one of its kind in Ireland. Enhancing the quality of lives for children and adults, who have varying degrees of physical disabilities. Our mission is to provide fully trained Assistance Dogs to assist in everyday activities and in doing so improving their quality of life. Our Assistance Dogs are provided free of charge and our charity receives no government funding. 85% of our clients are children between the ages of 6 – 12years living with severe physical disabilities which affect every aspect of their lives from independence to social interaction. Our Assistance Dogs are specially trained to assist in many ways, some of which are opening/closing doors; assist with dressing/undressing; sending of help; retrieve dropped items like keys or telephones; empty the washing machine: fetch the post; switch lights on/off; Press Pedestrian Crossing buttons plus much more….. We are currently running a unique programme designed to assist children with cerebral palsy to walk with our Stability Assistance Dogs. Huge progress has been made in helping these children to walk and increasing the possibilities of keeping them walking as they grow. Dogs for the Disabled funds all its services through the effort of our loyal volunteers across the country. Each Assistance Dog costs the charity €15,000 to produce and provided free of charge to our applicants.

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On the 28th of September, the Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health team will be scaling Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the UK, raising money for Dogs for the Disabled.

WHO ARE DOGS FOR THE DISABLED?

Dogs for the Disabled is a unique charity founded in 2007 to improve the lives of children and adults living with physical disabilities in Ireland. We deliver approximately 28 fully trained assistance / therapy-dogs each year to our profoundly disabled partners. The dogs that do not progress/qualify (through our rigorous training programme) as fully-qualified Assistance Dogs, go on to career as a therapy-dog.

They operate on a budget of approx. €450,000 per year. They have 6 full-time and 4 part-time staff and the rest of our team is made up of wonderful volunteers.

They have developed a unique Assistance Dog Stability Programme for children.

Their long term vision is to have a global reach by replicating their Assistance Dog Stability Programme around the world.

They support each of our dogs for their entire life – from birth through to retirement.

They run an ethical breeding and training programme – breeding and training all our own dogs in-house.

Every dog they train ends up as either a Fully Qualified Assistance Dog or as a Therapy Dog.

Their goal is to continue serving and helping the most vulnerable in society.

They work with the Irish Prison Service whereby inmates are actively involved in taking care and training of their pups.

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