Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind in Cassville, NY is a non-profit organization based in Upstate New York, which breeds, raises, trains and places guide dogs with the blind and visually impaired through a distinctive program called Hometown TrainingTM. Freedom Guide Dog's services are available to people in the Eastern United States at no cost. Eric & Sharon Loori started this organization 20 years ago and have recently been honored with an award in career achievement! We are so proud of them!
This year, Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind will celebrate its 20th Anniversary. For 20 years the non-profit organization has bred and trained quality guide dogs for the blind and visually impaired through a distinctive program called Hometown Training TM. The program, different from traditional guide dog school training, allows a guide dog instructor to bring the trained guide dog to the blind person’s home where they live and work.
Freedom’s Hometown Training TM has had much growth and success over the years reaching out to blinded veterans and blind people with additional disabilities such as complications from diabetes, cerebral palsy, deafness, downs syndrome, etc. The organization was founded by husband and wife team, Eric & Sharon Loori who remember whelping puppies in the basement of their home. Since then Freedom has grown to employ a staff of ten while maintaining a state-of-the-art kennel facility and Puppy Enrichment Center. In 2010 Freedom was ecstatic to place 29 guide dogs with blind people, setting a new record! Even more exciting for the organization, was breaking its own record in 2011 placing 32 guide dogs with blind people all over the east coast!
To help in celebrating its 20th Anniversary, New Hartford Animal Hospital is proud to sponsor this year's annual banquet fundraiser on April 12, 2012. The event is being held at Daniele's Banquet Facilities on Seneca Turnpike in New Hartford, NY from 6-9pm. You can Enjoy a delicious meal, a silent auction and an award ceremony honoring their valued friends and volunteers. Tickets are $30 each and are available on their website or here at New Hartford Animal Hospital. Please consider attending or sending them a donation.
We hope to see you all there!
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