Amber Valley Housing welcomes new guide dog puppy
Amber Valley Housing is proving four legs are better than two when it comes to supporting the community.
It has welcomed new recruit Asher – a black curly coated retriever guide dog puppy.
Training Asher, who is named after the company's office based in Asher Lane, Ripley, will cost £5,000.
Amber Valley Housing, which owns and manages around 5,500 homes in the borough, has been raising the money during the last year.
Fundraising activities included a 100-mile classic car tour, which raised £1,800, the sale of the company's old mobile phones and donations from suppliers.
John Thornhill led the fundraising. He said: "Asher will really benefit a blind or partially-sighted person once her training is complete."
Asher's initial training and socialising will take between 11 and 14 months.
She will then go to one of the guide dogs specialist training centres for a period of more intensive training before being matched to a blind/partially sighted owner prior to qualifying for her working life.
Once working she will give that person more independence and mobility.
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Last Updated:
14 February 2008 9:56 AM
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