Helping People & Animals

SA Guide Dogs Association for the Blind

The South African Guide Dogs Association has been training guide dogs since 1953 in South Africa. SAGA is a fully constituted non profit organisation. We train on average 65 Guide Dogs per annum and on average 5 to 8 Service or Social Dogs. SAGA also train orientation and Mobility Practitioners who in turn train blind or visually impaired citizens in their communities. In summary SAGA recieves no government funding and rely on the support from the generla public and corporate support. The cost to train a guide dog is close to R58000 per dog and we only charge R5 from the blindwhen they recive these amazing animals that serve them for on average 8 years! This is priceless and we welcome any support we can recieve, so that we may continue providing independence, mobility and companionship to the blind through a guide dog.