You Can Help

To continue fulfilling the urgent need for guide dogs, a network of volunteers and sponsors is critical. Any assistance, be it time, money, or services, is both needed and appreciated. Won't you join us in this most exciting and rewarding endeavor--providing "guiding eyes" for the blind?!

Be a Puppy Raiser

The raisers perform an essential service; without raisers there would be no guide dogs. There is excellent support and guidance for people who have never raised dogs before. Guiding Eyes provides classes, a manual, videos and evaluation meetings to help you do it right. Puppy raisers can be families, single people, can own other pets or have no pets, and need not be experienced. Vet expenses for the puppy will be completely covered. See Puppy Raising for more information.

Be a Puppy Sitter

Puppy Sitters are worth their weight in gold! A puppy sitter is an individual or family that watches a puppy when a raiser is out of town. Sitters receive excellent support from both the raiser and the Guiding Eyes team. Puppy sitters can be families, single people, can own other pets or have no pets, and need not be experienced. Puppy sitters attend puppy classes to learn GEB's dog handling methods and to practice with our pups.  To apply please fill out the Puppy Sitter Application and mail it to the address on the letter head.

Be a Food Or Equipment Sponsor

While the puppy's veterinary services are donated by area vets, other sponsors are needed to help defray the cost of food and equipment. You can make a one-time donation or sponsor a puppy for the 12 to 20 months that it lives with a raiser. Food or equipment sponsors can be families, individuals, or businesses.

Be A Transportation Volunteer

Volunteers are needed to help transport pups and/or dogs returning for training to and from Guiding Eyes in New York.  We sometimes need drivers who can pick up or deliver dogs to Washington DC, Virginia, or destinations within North Carolina.

Make a Monetary Donation

Our puppy raising program is supported totally by contributions. Neither Guiding Eyes nor our local program receives any government subsidies. Checks should be made out to "Guiding Eyes for the Blind / NCPRP" and sent to:

North Carolina Puppy Raising Program

P.O. Box 214

Pittsboro, NC 27312
 

Interested in helping? If so, please contact us.

If you live outside our region, there are additional ways you can help the national Guiding Eyes organization.