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The North Devon Rotary clubs, along with the others throughout the UK, have helped raise more than £500,000 to purchase especially trained hearing dogs that have changed lives.
Nearly nine million people in the UK experience some degree of hearing loss and over 650,000 are severely or profoundly deaf.
Hearing dogs are mostly selected from rescue centres or donated unwanted pets and then given specialist training so that they can alert their deaf owners to sounds we take for granted, providing greater independence, confidence and security.
Hearing Dogs for deaf people was originally launched at Crufts in 1982 and to date more than 1,300 have been placed with deaf people. The full time work of the Hearing Dog's programme is run under the auspices of the Royal National Institute for the Blind and thanks to the fundraising the 1300th dog 'Tina' was placed with an owner this year.
The hearing dog scheme receives no government funding and relies solely on the generosity of individuals and organisations like Rotary to keep deaf people 'hearing' by training unwanted dogs. £5,000 sponsors a hearing dog throughout its working life. So far Rotary has raised enough to help 100 profoundly deaf people.
The North Devon Rotary clubs, along with the others throughout the UK, have helped raise more than £500,000 to purchase especially trained hearing dogs that have changed lives.
Nearly nine million people in the UK experience some degree of hearing loss and over 650,000 are severely or profoundly deaf.
Hearing dogs are mostly selected from rescue centres or donated unwanted pets and then given specialist training so that they can alert their deaf owners to sounds we take for granted, providing greater independence, confidence and security.
Hearing Dogs for deaf people was originally launched at Crufts in 1982 and to date more than 1,300 have been placed with deaf people. The full time work of the Hearing Dog's programme is run under the auspices of the Royal National Institute for the Blind and thanks to the fundraising the 1300th dog 'Tina' was placed with an owner this year.
The hearing dog scheme receives no government funding and relies solely on the generosity of individuals and organisations like Rotary to keep deaf people 'hearing' by training unwanted dogs. £5,000 sponsors a hearing dog throughout its working life. So far Rotary has raised enough to help 100 profoundly deaf people.