Guide Dogs Singapore (GDS) is a

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social service organization that helps the visually handicapped in Singapore. GDS advocates the use and normalization of using guide dogs in helping the visually handicapped, especially allowing guide dogs to enter food establishments. GDS also trains guide dogs.

History

Guide Dogs Singapore was founded in 2006 to assist the visually handicapped in Singapore. GDS has trained 11 guide dogs, of which 6 are in operation. In 2013, Law Minister

K. Shanmugam Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam ( ta, காசிவிஸ்வநாதன் சண்முகம்; born 26 March 1959), better known as K. Shanmugam, is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who has been serving as Minister for Law since 2008 ...

stated at a dinner organized by GDS that there has to be a, "more supportive regulatory framework" towards guide dogs. In 2017, Christina Teng became Singapore's first local guide dog instructor after undergoing training at Guide Dogs Victoria in

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from 2018 to 2020 to get her Guide Dog Mobility Instructor certificate. She also trained Eve, the first guide dog to be trained in Singapore. In 2018, GDS planned to raise to train 2 more guide dogs.

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