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Dogs Helping Kids is North Devon’s unique charity dedicated to using highly trained dogs to help teach children non-violence, empathy, respect, kindness, love, responsibility, friendship and trust.

North Devon Journal
Waggy Tails, Calmer Minds Appeal

This year we are delighted to be appointed as the North Devon Journal's chosen charity. With the help of the appeal we're hoping to raise £20,000 to take the charity to a whole 'new level'. This appeal is about asking the people of North Devon to help out a local charity who have a vision using dogs to help local children and teenagers.

DHK has achieved many things - educational talks for local schools and colleges, a one year course for problem teenagers, advice to parents on how best to bring up their kids with their new puppy and how to bring up a baby with their dog.

Since its inception, Princess Laya and Ash, the first trained DHK School Dogs, have met literally thousands of children and helped many teenagers. With the help of this appeal, we want to train up more local dogs to join the DHK team. We also want to be able to expand the work we have done over the past few years and visit more schools and help more teenagers.

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