I am raising money for Little Angels Service Dogs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that places life changing service dogs with children and adults with disabilities. As a nonprofit, Little Angels never requires recipients to pay for a dog. Instead, recipients are encouraged to get involved with fundraising. Training these highly skilled dogs, is very costly. It costs Little Angels an average of $38,000 to raise, care for, train and place one service dog. I am raising money for Little Angels to continue their important work while we wait for Aashni's life-changing fur-ever friend.

Personal Story:

Many of you have met our  7 yr old daughter, Aashni or at least you have been part of her online cheer squad while helping to raise money for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.  With the bittersweet cancellation of this year's Chicago Marathon, our family has shifted focus to work on raising money for Little Angels Service Dogs with the hope of eventually matching Aashni with her own fur-ever friend. Aashni has a mitochondrial depletion syndrome called Polymerase Gamma or Pol-G.  It causes significant low muscle tone and degeneration of her nervous system among a multitude of other things and without a cure, treatment is purely supportive. 

Despite all of this, Aashni has overcome so many things including a near-death hospitalization from influenza A for almost 2 months.  She is currently getting ready to start 1st grade this fall remotely.  She also will be getting her brand new power wheelchair or "train" as Aashni calls it.  She is able to control the wheel chair with her head and it is able to place her in an elevated seating and even standing position. https://youtu.be/mRgcD3A7FlI

 A service dog will be able to help Aashni achieve increased independence in so many ways.  While in her wheel chair, the dog can help extend Aashni's eye sight and to assist with opening automatic doors and light switches.  If Aashni drops things, her dog will be able to retrieve them.  Having a dog sleep in Aashni's room will improve her safety as a service dog can be trained to alert us if Aashni needs something. 

As you can imagine it is not cheap to raise and train a Medical Service Dog. All this training costs a lot of money. $38,000 to be exact. With your help Little Angels Service Dogs can provide these dogs to kids like my daughter.

An EXTRA BONUS for you is that all the money you donate is tax deductible as Little Angels Service Dogs is a 501c3 non-profit organization.

If you would rather send a check you can do that as well. You can mail a check in to the following address. Just make sure you add the code (PM-PL-AA)

Little Angels Service Dogs                                                                          

1088 US Route 302                                                                                

Bartlett, NH 03812                                                                                      

Code: PM-PL-AA

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From Little Angels: We train dogs to assist their recipients with Mobility Tasks, Seizure & Diabetic Alert, Hearing Loss, Autism, PTSD, Panic Attacks as well as many other needs. Most of the dogs we place are puppies that have come from our own breeding program and are raised from birth with the specific goal of being an Assistance Dog. Others are lucky enough to be rescued from local shelters and rescue programs and end up changing the lives of others. Each dog's training is personalized to help their individual handlers needs. For more information please click on the following link.