Our challenges
Today in Israel there are:
- 24,000 blind and visually impaired people
- 15,000 children suffering from autism
- Around 5%-8% of ex-combat soldiers suffering from PTSD
How we achieve our mission
- Breeding and training the best quality dogs possible
- Matching trained dogs with the correct client every time
- Providing the funding for every partnership so that there is no charge to the client ever
- Promoting the needs of our clients and the Centre to ensure that we will have the resources needed to continue our mission
Our history
The Israel Guide Dog Centre for the Blind began in the 1980s as a dream of a young paratrooper in the Israel Defence Force. After leaving the army, lifelong animal lover and military dog trainer Noach Braun decided to make it his life’s mission to establish a guide dog school in Israel.
In 1990, Noach and his wife Orna, took the first steps to establish this by inviting a single blind person to their home to learn to work with a guide dog that Noach had trained. In 1994, with the help of donors from the US, UK, Netherlands and Israel, Noach and Orna purchased a plot of land and two caravans and the Israel Guide Dog Centre was born.
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