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We the Baráthegyi Guide Dog school celebrate International Guide Dog Day on the 27th of April with several events throughout the country. We are waiting for everyone who is interested in it on Saturday prior to the day. The aim of this program is to bring attention to visually impaired people and the importance of
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The second guide-dog-hike of the year on Hármashatár Hill was spent in really high spirits with a lot more people attending than expected. Fortunately the weather was kind to the hikers so everyone could enjoy the warm spring sunshine all through the day. The morning of the second day of spring was all about the
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„Go out!” – this is the command our guide-dogs-in-training are given when they go outside to practice. On their way out of the building they have to bypass obstacles that their trainers set up for them from time to time. Developing problem solving skills constitutes an essential part of the guide dogs’ training programme. Guide
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In the February edition of Visionary, the magazine of the International Guide Dog Federation (IGDF) readers can learn about the human side of man’s best friend and get an insight into a unique technology concept called 3D Soundscapes that can aid orientation, navigation and transport in cities and greatly enhance the quality of life for
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Credibility, legality, transparency and publicity – conforming to all of these criteria the Baráthegyi Guide Dog School Foundation received full membership into the Ethical Committee of the Self-regulatory Body of Fundraising Organizations Since the creation of the Foundation in 2006, legality and transparency have been our fundamental principles to follow. Application of these principles have absolute priority
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Our new guide dog couple, Zsolt Majzik and his guide dog, passed the traffic safety exam with flying colours. Andy show she had much experiment and that she was good at cooperation, emphasised the examination board in its evaluation. Traveling with bus, walkibng on the street…- since the young man and his helper make a
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It is with a heavy heart that we inform you that Rumi, the guide dog passed away with tragic suddenness in the evening. As far as we know, Rumi was the world’s first double roled habilitation dog. He was not only a guide dog for Zsuzsa, his owner, but he also warned her of her
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In a morning of February we woke up to a guide dog exam day. Our destinations were Somogy and Baranya, two counties of Hungary. The first candidates were Debóra Szabó and Emi, her lovely chocolate brown labrador retriever bitch who we met in Kaposvár. They have been working together as a team since August and
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On 1 February, many Baráthegyi supporters and dogs got together for a hike on Hármashatár hill. Not only guide dogs and their owners, volunteers and puppy raisers with their puppies came, but families and friends also joined in. We all had a great time hiking the icy forest paths and the dogs enjoyed the carefree
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Dora took part in our school’s Sensitizing Activity at first time in these days. She wrote about her first occasion: „We arrived at Baráthegyi Guide Dog School as beginner volunteers. Here we learnt about the types and degrees of vision problems from a presentation. In situation practice we tried the assistance in traffic and orientation.
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Our trainers held their first professional day this year in Miskolc, on 20th January. The experts, working on different points around the country, usually meet once in a month in our school in order to discuss current professional questions. Getting acquitted and its key-issues were such a question this time, which means the first period
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Some of our volunteers visited our first sensitizing program of the year to learn about the everyday life of visually impaired people. This exciting meeting provided our sighted participants with new viewpoints on how we they can help their visually impaired fellow human beings, for example during a street crossing. For more details please click
