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The children of staff and students at our day care centres are helping to raise money for the Centenary guide dog.

Lindy Brophy, editor of UWAnews, is running the campaign and has a life-size model guide dog to inspire people to donate.  The model dog spent a couple of weeks at the Early Learning Centre on the Nedlands campus where the children fell in love with him and asked their parents every day for coins to ‘feed' him.  They raised $145.

The model dog then went to Unicare on Parkway, where educator Andy Streit took him around the Crawley campus in a little cart with some of the children walking alongside.

"The children loved it," Andy said. "They were running up to staff and students asking for a coin for the guide dog." In two mornings, the little group collected $521.

Next stop for the model dog was the Business School and it is due to move to CTEC soon.

If you would like to host the collection dog at your reception desk or in your tearoom, please contact Lindy on 6488 2436 or [email protected] .  It is booked up until late June.

Or you can donate online .

Published in UWA News , April 2013