
Representing our foundation, our lawyer volunteer accompanied by her guide dog and our trainer attended the Annual General Meeting of the European Guide Dog Federation (EGDF) on April 23, 2015 in Bucharest. They also took part in the subsequent gala dinner and at the next day’s conference on this theme. The prestigious event was hosted
Providing equal opportunities to everyone is one of our foundation’s basic principles. This is why we have worked for months to make our website accessible for everyone without barriers. We are very proud that www.barathegyi.org has received Barrier-Free and Screen Reader Compatible Certificate issued by Net-média Foundation, which prepares barrier-free web applications. Based on their
On 27 April, the International Guide Dog Day, we visited the little patients of the Children’s Hospital in Miskolc. We were talking a lot with the children about guide dogs and everyone had the opportunity to try out what it is like to walk blindfolded with a guide dog. We spent a joyful afternoon with
We celebrate International Guide Dog Day on the 27th of April and on that occasion Baráthegyi Guide Dog School organized events on the 25th of April in almost 20 cities of the country. In Hungary there are some eighty-thousand visually impaired people but only 123 of them have a qualified guide dog. Many hope that
Travelling with a guide dog, playing table tennis and tic-tac-toe blindfolded… – visitors are welcomed in nearly 20 cities all over the country on the occasion of the International Guide Dog Day on Saturday, April 25. and other specialties are among the different programs which can be of interest to sighted people – everything they
Many thousands of people can celebrate a success in our country rooted in Miskolc: the 50th Baráthegyi guide dog has passed the traffic safety exam on April 15, in Bács-Kiskun County. A Labrador called Maximus is the 50th guide dog since the regulatory requirements were introduced in 2009 who demonstrated before the Examining Board of
The cooperation of an other guide dog couple was strengthened by a successful traffic safety exam at the end of march. Tamás Terhes and his guide dog Labrador Jampi walk, as usual, confidently in the city centre of Szeged. Getting around on crowded squares and travelling with a bus getting on and off do not
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
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
„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
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
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