Michigan program offers guide dogs to people with visual impairments

UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. (WLUC) – An organization created by the Lions Club International gives visually impaired people a service dog free of charge there is even a chapter in the Upper Peninsula.

A golden retriever puppy named Ginger is already in training to be a Leader Dog. Lions Club International’s Leader Dogs for the Blind started in 1938. The U.P. chapter’s program chair, Gretchen Preston, says the goal is to provide guide dogs for visually impaired individuals.

“It is international; it was the first program globally to provide dogs for people who are both blind and deaf,” Preston said…

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