Service Dog for Bella

Started a yr ago

22 days left

R 26 209
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R 17 950
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Yolandi Haggard
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George
South Africa
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Started a yr ago
22 days left

Gooday, everyone I am Yolandi

I am reaching out with an urgent request for your support in helping me raise the final R94 000 needed for my Psychiatric and Celiac Service Dog.  

I live with a complex combination of medical and psychological conditions: CPTSD, ADHD, and severe Celiac Disease.  A Service Dog is not a luxury or just a pet for me - he is a vital medical aid trained to perform life changing tasks.

How He Will Help Me Every Day:

  • Medical Alert (Celiac Disease): My celiac symptoms have rapidly worsened over the past few months, recently resulting in iron deficiency and hospitalization he is being trained to sniff out and alert me to presence of gluten before I can accidently ingest it, protecting my physical health.
  • Trauma Support: Following a severe workplace trauma where I was held against my will by a manager in a room at work, after already having Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from childhood: my flashbacks and se...

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Campaign Updates

Y. Haggard 6 Jul '26
Buddy is being a star and are also now being trained for Celiacs disease to prevent accidently eating of Gluten. Since I first got assessed for a service dog my Celiac disease symptoms has worsened...

Y. Haggard 29 Oct '25
Buddy passed on the 25/10/2025 Good Citizen with flying colours. We are super prpud of him and the amazing service dog that he is learning to become.

Y. Haggard 29 Oct '25
Buddy passed on the 25/10/2025 Good Citizen with flying colours. We are super prpud of him and the amazing service dog that he is learning to become.

Y. Haggard 14 Oct '25
🐾 Hi, I’m Buddy! I’m training to become a psychiatric service dog for my special human, Bella. 💛 Today I did something amazing — I made her heart happy! She couldn’t stop smiling when she s...
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