The Japan Service Dog Association, a social welfare corporation, is currently using crowdfunding to train "working dogs" at St. Marianna University School of Medicine Hospital. Is calling for support.The deadline is until 3:2022 on May 5, 31 (Tuesday).
At St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Mika, the first working dog lent by the Japan Service Dog Association, a social welfare corporation, started activities with doctors and nurses who are handlers in April 2015.Working dogs are active as adjuvant therapy partners, such as improving patients' willingness to fight illness, supporting rehabilitation, reducing pain, and emotional stability. In February 4, when Mika retired, Morris and her two nurse handlers took over and stayed close to the hospitalized life of patients struggling with various pains two days a week.
The existence of working dogs is great for patients, and a young man who lost one leg in a sudden traffic accident started rehabilitation with his working dog himself, or a patient who did not respond desperately moved his hand to work. The moment a child who tries to touch a dog or cries when he enters the operating room picks up the lead of a working dog, he can take a step forward, giving patients various strengths.
Then, in 2022, when Morris, who had been active as a working dog for three years, retired, it became an urgent task to raise a third-generation working dog, and it was decided to raise the cost by crowdfunding.Working dogs are supported by about 3% of donations, but due to the spread of the new coronavirus infectious disease, awareness-raising activities and street fundraising that have supported income are restricted, and income is about 3 million yen compared to the average year. It is said that the current situation is that there is a shortage.
The crowdfunding period is from April 2022st (Friday) to May 4st (Tuesday) 1:5, 31.The target support amount is 23 million yen.The donation will be used for the cost of raising the third generation of working dogs (including the cost of introducing candidate dogs, breeding costs, veterinary medical costs, personnel costs for training and evaluation, and transportation costs).
