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.
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,
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 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.
