MAKING A DREAM COME TRUE
I have a dream, that sometime in the very near future, I will make an afternoon visit to a paws4peopleTM canine placement volunteer. She will proceed to tell me about the calls she has received so far that day from people seeking the services that paws4peopleTM has grown to offer:
. . . The father of a wheelchair-bound teenager from Charleston, South Carolina, is in need of a companion and service animal for his child.
. . . The son of an elderly woman in Savannah, Georgia who has lost her husband, desiring a canine companion to help his mother cope with and recover from her loss.
. . . A newly retired woman in South Riding, Virginia, is hoping to acquire a dog so that she may implement an “I Care Dog” program at her granddaughter’s school to provide motivation to struggling and special needs children.
. . . A senior citizen couple from Greensboro, North Carolina, looking for a home where they are free of the burdens of maintenance but where they can keep their pets and participate in volunteer projects to remain active.
Our paws4peopleTM volunteer was able to direct each of these calls to departments just footsteps away, and all of the above individuals were set up with appointments to meet their new therapy dog at the paws4peopleTM foundation Complex.
The paws4peopleTM foundation Complex, located on 200-300 acres of beautiful northern Virginia countryside, will be alive with the golden magic of a never-ending staff of paws4peopleTM dogs. Here, our loving canines will thrive in abundance, and bless the many on-site facilities with their constant presence. The ultimate result of this complex will be to create a network of people and canines, a family of people joined by the indescribable power of dogs, the paws4peopleTM family.
The complex will house several carefully planned facilities. Each facility will fulfill a particular niche within the overall paws4peopleTM mission, while all interacting with each other.