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EPISODE # 324
AIR DATE: 03 29 2024
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((VO/NAT/SOT))
((Title))
Kids Give Back
((SOT))
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
No matter how much work this is, the number of hours of planning, when we get here, it's just so fulfilling.
((Lauren Imwold
Teacher))
What is something that you are maybe good at, that could maybe like help somebody?
((Animation))
((Title))
Rejuvenating Urban Forests
((SOT))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
I was born in D.C. I’ve always been sort of an outdoorsman. I've always liked the woods. One of the things I love about Ward 8 is that we have a lot of green space.
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((Title))
Inspiring Hope
((SOT))
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
We hand out food, non-perishables and perishables to families who like, who need them. And we go to different bus stops every week.
((Animation))
((TITLE)) KIDS GIVE BACK
((TRT: 09:50))
((Producer/Editor/Additional Camera: Lisa Vohra))
((Camera: Philip Alexiou))
((Map: Annandale, Virginia))
((Main characters: 1 female; 0 male))
((Sub characters: 6 female; 5 male))
((Blurb: In 2022, Kids Give Back was named Outstanding Community Organization in Governor Youngkin’s Volunteerism and Community Service Awards. We join them as young kids discover ways to give back to communities in need.))
((NATS/MUSIC))
Hi.
This is Lennon.
Hello.
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
If I can have your attention for a minute, my name is Ms. Denise. I'm going talk to you a little bit about why we're here. We're all about giving back to our community. And when we talk about volunteering, there are four Ts of volunteering, four Ts. The first T of volunteering, and there's going to be a test later.
((Text on screen: Time))
The first T of volunteering is using your time, taking your time to do your projects. That's going to be really important this week because all the things that we do this week are going to benefit somebody else. We are doing what we're going to call making a difference in our community. We're doing something that's going to make somebody else happy.
((Text on screen: Talent))
The second T of volunteering is using your talent. What does it mean to use your talents to volunteer? Yes, you have an answer.
((Sylee
Participant))
If you're making a card for someone, like if they're at the hospital, you would use like...you would write nice things in the card.
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
Did you guys hear that? Using your artistic skills to volunteer.
((Text on screen: Teamwork))
The third T is teamwork. Why do we work as teams?
((Participant))
Because if you work as a team, you get...you actually get better work and better results, because everybody has an idea.
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
Yeah, everybody has an idea.
((Text on screen: Treasures))
And the fourth is treasures. A treasure is something valuable, right? It costs money to make a meal. It's going to cost money to make art kits for hospitalized kids. Everything has a value.
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
So, Ms. Lauren, do you want to lead them in an icebreaker?
All right.
((NATS))
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
No matter how much work this is, the number of hours of planning, when we get here, it's just so fulfilling.
((Lauren Imwold
Teacher))
What is something that you are maybe good at, that could maybe like help somebody? Like…and it could be a little thing, like I'm a good artist, so I can make nice cards for the kids in the hospital. So, you're going to start by saying your name and then you might say something like, "One thing I could do to help people is..." So, go ahead.
((Sean
Participant))
My name is Sean. One thing I could do to help people is...I'm good at basketball and I love basketball, so I can like teach people basketball.
((Sylee
Participant))
So, my name is Sylee and I've been doing like Bollywood dance and hip-hop dance and all this type of dance, so...and I'm doing it competitive. So, I could teach people how to do that.
((Lauren Imwold
Teacher))
Cool. All right. Let’s see if we can do one or two more.
Kids Give Back is all about like kids just having an opportunity to volunteer and help people in need. It really helps like raise awareness for the kids about people experiencing different things out there. And I've seen them like become more empathetic as the week goes on and start to understand more and ask more complex questions about what people are going through like what kind of situations might cause someone to be in the hospital or something like that. So, it's a really a good learning opportunity for them.
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
You like horses. You like dogs? All right, got it.
When I had the idea for Kids Give Back, I just started talking to parents. I was going out to lunch with people. I was talking to friends. And then I reached out to the nonprofit community and said, "We recognize there aren't a lot of opportunities for children as young as six years old, right?" They are six years old coming in here and learning about how they can give back to their community. And it was literally just a lot of support. There's always going to be a need for food. There's always going to be a need for kindness in terms of making senior citizens smile or people who are sick. They're just some constant needs that kids can fulfill.
((NATS))
One or two?
One.
((Helen McCarter
Volunteer, Kids Give Back))
I love this camp so much. I've been doing it since I was 13 [years old], and I love working with the kids because by the end of the week, they are also excited about volunteering and coming back. And it's a fun experience.
((Text on screen: Guest Speaker))
((NATS))
((Shy Ashkenazi
Clown and Educator))
A clown getting ready, who would have thought?
I'm Shy Ashkenazi. I'm a trained hospital clown.
So I'm a clown who doesn't use the makeup. I'm a clown using this thing. What is this? The red nose, right? And I'm not scary, because you know what? Even if you're really scared and say, "Oh, I'm not comfortable with the nose.", I just do this and say, "It's just me. It's Shy who you just met, right?" But now, I'm a clown. This is an international symbol. All over the world people see this and they know this is a clown. Now I'm a special kind of clown. I'm a hospital clown or a medical clown. Have you heard of that? Raise your hand if you've heard of a medical clown.
((Participant))
No.
((Shy Ashkenazi
Clown and Educator))
Okay, let me tell you what it is. I go into a hospital, and I visit people who are either sick, or their family members are sick, or, you know, sometimes the doctors, the nurses, all the employees in the hospital, they need someone to, we would say, "Give me a…pick me up." We make them…you talked about smiling, we make them smile. So, I walk around the hospital, and I would come, and I would go into a room.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Shy Ashkenazi
Clown and Educator))
The key values behind hospital clowning is: making people happy, and giving back to the community, finding people in their weakest spots in life and elevating them.
((NATS))
((Shy Ashkenazi
Clown and Educator))
We have the cup here, regular cup. I'm going to make the cup float in the air. Ready?
((Participant))
No.
((Shy Ashkenazi
Clown and Educator))
No?
((Participant))
Yes.
((Shy Ashkenazi
Clown and Educator))
One, two...ooooo.
((NATS))
((Shy Ashkenazi
Clown and Educator))
Now, I can't tell you how I did this. I can't.
((Participant))
Your thumb.
((Shy Ashkenazi
Clown and Educator))
What about?
((Participant))
No, the other thumb. There's a hole.
((Participant))
You put the hole in there to make it look like that while your thumb was hiding behind it.
((Shy Ashkenazi
Clown and Educator))
Wonderful.
So, I wasn't planning on telling you how I did it, but I got confused and I did this. So, when I'm in the hospital, and we sit and we play, I accidentally show you how I did the trick. And guess what? In a few minutes, you're going to take your cups, and you're going to make that trick yourself, and we're going to learn how to do it. So, you can trick people with a floating cup.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Lauren Imwold
Teacher))
They're making some cards for children who are in the hospital. So, there's like a specific set of directions of like different things that they could write, and then you can sign it at the end with your first name and what state you live in.
((Mia Eskandary
Participant))
Dear friend, you are awesome. I hope you have an awesome day.
Sincerely, Mia.
((Lennon Ruiz
Participant))
My name is Lennon, and I had a great time today so far.
((Theo Tran
Participant))
My name is Theo. My day went very good because I was [with] my friends and making people...making people happy is just…is just the right thing to do.
((NATS))
((Text on screen: Young Chefs))
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
We're making 200 meals, which requires 20 pounds of chicken strips and 18 pounds of pasta, just to get the main meal ready. And then there's dozens and dozens of like cucumbers and carrots, and then the kids are also going to assemble 200 bags of treats to go with the meal.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
It just blows me away that we can get 23 kids, who are between first and sixth grade, to concentrate on making meals for people in need. Like this is their...this is our biggest project of every camp.
((NATS))
All right. I think these olives are looking pretty good.
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
And this is the one that makes the most impact on them, because they understand hunger, right? But they also know they can go home and fill their hunger. And so when you tell them, "Tonight, 200 people are going go home with a full belly because of you", it's just...it's such an impactful story. So, this is the lesson out of all of them. Every week, it is a ton of work for us. It is multiple trips to the grocery store. It’s multiple trips to organize things. But then we make it so that the kids are just prepping the food and they get so much out of it.
((Lauren Imwold
Teacher))
We have here Suzanne from Facets. She's going to be taking the food to the people who need it.
((Suzanne Hough
Director of Volunteer Engagement, Facets))
Facets works with the community to support individuals and families struggling with homelessness and poverty. We started out with a Hot Meals program, and today, 35 years later, we're still doing a hot meal every evening and every Sunday morning.
((NATS))
((Suzanne Hough
Director of Volunteer Engagement, Facets))
So now that you’ve made the meal, are you ready to help me load load it up into the van?
((Participants))
Yes.
((Suzanne Hough
Director of Volunteer Engagement, Facets))
Awesome. Okay.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
The mission of Kids Give Back is to inspire the next generation of volunteer leaders. That is our mission. Whatever we do, we want the kids to walk out of here today and be proud of the meals that they made, the friends that they made, and the ideas that they have to continue making a difference in our community. We want them to understand that at six years old, they can do something that makes a difference, whether it's as simple as dropping off greeting cards to a senior citizen's home, or being at a camp like this where they're making an impact by making meals and animal toys and gifts for hospitalized children.
((NATS))
((Denise Gavilan
Executive Director, Founder, Kids Give Back))
The impact is: take the message forward and continue volunteering. That's the end. Like if I have a kid that comes to me in three years and says, "Ms. Denise, I continued volunteering for a food bank because you inspired me to do that.", I'll feel like I've done my job.
((NATS/MUSIC))
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More after the break…
((Title))
Rejuvenating Urban Forests
((SOT))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
I was looking for ways to kind of contribute my energy to improve the community.
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((TITLE)) FREEDOM ON WHEELS
((TRT: 01:00))
((Original Reporter/Camera/Producer: Genia Dulot))
((Social Media Producer/Editor: Lisa Vohra))
((Blurb: Meet Tracie, a woman who embraces her wheelchair as a source of liberation.))
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Tracie Garacochea
Adaptive Skateboarder))
Because you have a wheelchair doesn’t mean you can’t do an extreme sport.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Tracie Garacochea
Adaptive Skateboarder))
I kept on having vertigo and things would happen, like my hands started not functioning well and I was doing sculpture and I couldn’t hold the tools and I was dropping them on my feet and those are really sharp.
((Tracie Garacochea
Adaptive Skateboarder))
Finally, I am diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. So the lady whose chair I tried said to me, “A wheelchair is just a tool.” And that made sense to me.
((Tracie Garacochea
Adaptive Skateboarder))
A wheelchair improved the quality of my life and it gave me a sport. It’s just, that moment was one of the best in my life.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Tracie Garacochea
Adaptive Skateboarder))
I just want people to see when I am out there, that this is possible. And it’s possible at 17. It’s possible at 20. It’s possible at 30. And darn it, it’s possible at 60.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Tracie Garacochea
Adaptive Skateboarder))
It feels like you are flying.
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((TITLE)) REJUVENATING URBAN FORESTS
((TRT: 07:22))
((Producer/Camera/Editor: Linus Manchester))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((Main characters: 0 female; 1 male))
((Sub characters: 0 female; 1 male))
((Blurb: Nathan Harrington is a Washington, DC resident and nature lover. His nonprofit organization, Ward 8 Woods, strives to rejuvenate urban forests through picking up trash and combatting invasive species.))
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
I was born in D.C. I’ve always been sort of an outdoorsman. I've always liked the woods. One of the things I love about Ward 8 is that we have a lot of green space. But as I explored them, I saw that they were really marred by trash.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
I was looking for ways to kind of contribute my energy to improve the community.
I'm Nathan Harrington, and I'm founder and executive director of Ward 8 Woods Conservancy.
((MUSIC/NATS))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
Here in the Ward 8 section of Washington, D.C., it's the side of Washington, D.C., that is historically most neglected and segregated. In these neighborhoods, we have a lot of people who want to work but have trouble getting and keeping employment because of things like lack of education and credentials.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
Wealthier, more affluent areas tend to have good systems for making sure that trash is sort of organized and controlled and taken away in a way where people don't have to see it. But in lower income areas, not just here but around the world, the systems and structures for dealing with trash are not as well executed. And so, the trash ends up in places where it's visible and where it does really concrete harm to people. So, we were trying to wed this overwhelming amount of work that needs doing to all these people who need work.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
Tires are one of the top items that gets illegally dumped, and that's because they are inconvenient and expensive to dispose of legally. If you want to dispose of them, they charge per tire. And there's basically no local facilities that accept them. So, people are saving time and money by dumping them illegally here.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
People basically throw in the woods like anything that you can think of that someone might own and then not want anymore. We've got some toilets. This is sort of cool. It’s an old cassette tape that had a plant growing through it. Somebody must have shot this like out West, and then paid to have it taxidermied and mounted, and at some later date, they didn't want it anymore, so they chucked it in the woods. These are not by any means all of the toys that I've found. Finders keepers. If it's out there, then you can have it.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
We have a couple of trails that we're trying to renovate and activate, getting more people out there using them. And then, we have a lot of land that is public land. Theoretically, anybody can go there, but in practice, nobody really does because there's no access. There's no trails.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
This is one of the parklands that doesn't have any trails, doesn’t have any signs. It’s just here. So, you know, this is very beautiful and there's thousands of people who live within a short walk of here. So, I think it's kind of a travesty that not many people do come out here.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
Because of invasive species, we have thousands of trees that have already died. So, we really need to attack those vines if we're still going to have a forest.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((John S.
Park Steward, Ward 8 Woods))
I've been working with Nate for about 14 months now. Just knowing him, he's a very outgoing person, and yeah, you'll get into this type of work.
((NATS))
((John S.
Park Steward, Ward 8 Woods))
We don't want it to grow back.
((NATS))
((John S.
Park Steward, Ward 8 Woods))
We just try our best to keep the parks and trails clean.
((NATS))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
As an economy, we produce a lot of trash that is essentially used once, used very briefly, and then thrown away, not taking into account the fact that, what is away? Where is it actually going? The planet has finite space and everything within it is connected. So, when you're sending stuff away, it still has to go somewhere. ((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
You can see where every time there’s a big rain, trash gets washed down here and it gets caught. So, this is almost like a natural trash trap.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
In the last four and a half years, we've removed more than a million pounds of trash. My greatest hope is that we can kind of turn the corner on trash and invasive species and maintaining urban forests. The ambition is to get people out in the forests and enjoying them, and deriving all the benefits that people get from being physically active and outside.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((John S.
Park Steward, Ward 8 Woods))
Coming out here is a stress reliever. I clear my mind. I can think. I can breathe nature. That's why we go so hard about keeping it clean, because we’d be out here. It’s really important. ((NATS/MUSIC))
((Nathan Harrington
Founder/Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods))
Definitely my mental health has improved a lot since I started doing this. Being outside and in close contact with nature gives me this sort of reservoir of calm and strength that I can deal, to help me cope with everything else that happens.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((TITLE)) HOPE CHANGING LIVES
((Previously aired March 2023))
((TRT: 07:07))
((Reporter: Faiza Elmasry))
((Camera: Adam Greenbaum; Philip Alexiou))
((Editor: Philip Alexiou))
((Map: Leesburg, Virginia; Herndon, Virginia))
((Main characters: 0 female; 1 male))
((Sub characters: 1 female; 1 male))
((Blurb: Twenty-five-year-old, Dei Jay Jamison, grew up with no adult positive role models, but with huge negative peer pressure. Early rough experiences could have destroyed his entire life. But when the young man found hope, he was inspired to change and have a dream.))
((NATS/SOT: Dei Jay Jamison))
Oh, wait. You’re waiting on me, Allison? Want me to hop on up here?
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
I'm Dei Jay, Dei Jay Jamison, and I've been with Mobile Hope for about six years. Graduated from Loudoun County High School, 2015.
((NATS))
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
Basically we do this every week. So, we hand out food, non-perishables and perishables to families who like, who need them. And we go to different bus stops every week.
It makes me feel like I have a purpose, like I'm giving it back, like I am helping somebody who needs it.
((NATS))
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
When I joined Mobile Hope, I was about 14 or 15 [years old] and I was in a rough spot. I grew up without my mom and my dad. So, that means I didn't have my parents growing up. And so, my grandmother, you know, brought me in, raised me, me and my other siblings that I have. And so, I was like, I grew up confused.
((NATS))
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
So, growing up, I was always getting into trouble. I was always getting suspended from school or getting into fights and, you know, I was just mad at the world.
((NATS))
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
Going into high school was when I really started partying and, you know, doing drugs and stuff and drinking and just not, just going down the wrong path. I was homeless for a little while.
((NATS))
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
It’s pretty…it’s tough. It's tough knowing that you don't have anywhere to go. And, you know, automatically assume you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing if you're homeless. Like why are you homeless? Just get a job and work. And it’s not that easy. It's not, especially if you’re 25 [years old], it’s hard. People just driving by, people walk by. You know, it is what it is. You know what I mean? But it's depressing.
I have got in trouble before where I'd been incarcerated. So, when I got out when I was like 18 [years old], I started working extensively with Mobile Hope, like at that point, to get my life back on track.
((NATS))
((Donna Fortier
CEO and Founder, Mobile Hope))
When he first came to us, he was not a happy, cheerful young man. I think he had a lot of self-doubt, and he had a lot of struggles that he was dealing with. And being with us for however many years he’s now been with us, he has really grown to be a mentor now to some of our kids.
And it was created because there were no true programs that were dedicated specifically to our homeless youth, especially 18 to 24 [years old]. And so, we do everything in our power to help empower them and help to have them lead a life of self-sufficiency.
So, we have mentors that are not only life coaches that are there for them when that life kind of gets hard, but they're also there as experts, you know, content experts within the trade that they are pursuing.
((NATS/SOT))
I’m going to the school soon.
((NATS/SOT: Instructor))
So, I’m going to put this on low and cover it to simmer. It's 11:50. It’s supposed to be done at 12:15. So, I'm going to have you actually bring that plate of chicken over here.
Let's do this. Let's cut up this chicken into bite-size pieces.
((Donna Fortier
CEO and Founder, Mobile Hope))
Most kids have not been asked what they want to do in life, what their goals are in life. They've primarily been regimented to: You can do this job, you can do this job.
((NATS/SOTs))
((Donna Fortier
CEO and Founder, Mobile Hope))
So, the uniqueness of trading up with Mobile Hope is our ability to put them in front of many different trades to see where their passion exists. And then they get to shadow those people.
Dei Jay graduated. He has, I think, six or seven certifications in cybersecurity.
((NATS/SOT: James H. Wilson))
Great to see you again. Yeah, I'm excited about all of the opportunities that are out here for you.
((James H. Wilson
Chief Learning Officer, The Carver Institute))
Well, I started working with Dei Jay during the time that Mobile Hope was opening up their vocational program. That's how I actually met Dei Jay. We met there and he expressed an interest in going into a cybersecurity program that we had. He was very interested in technology.
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
Cybersecurity wise, I would explain it as basically being able to outsmart your opponents, basically. It's like a game to me. So, I like putting pieces to the puzzle together, analyzing, figuring out what the problem is and then solving it.
((NATS))
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
I like it. It's like cat and mouse, you know what I mean? So, it's like the thrill of the chase or like, kind of just like figuring out what you can do better, you know, or what that company can do better to protect themselves as well.
((James H. Wilson
Chief Learning Officer, The Carver Institute))
Yes, we want you to do the LinkedIn, so you can just send your resumes out or connect with those people who have some of the same interests. So, that's wonderful. And we're just happy to work with you on that, and also the resume what we like for you to do at this particular time now is add this cybersecurity analyst position.
((NATS))
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
You can't become the man you want to be, if you're still tied to the man you used to be. And it’s the worst type of battle when it's within yourself and nobody can see. You know what I mean? And sometimes you definitely feel like you will not win. But there are also people and resources out there that can help you get through it. Keep a support system if you can, like I want you to surround yourself with people who want the best for you. And there is really nothing you can't handle.
((NATS/SOT: Dei Jay Jamison))
Wow!
((Dei Jay Jamison
Member, Mobile Hope))
Everybody, you know, has a purpose in life and I hope that everybody finds it.
((NATS))
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((TITLE)) NATURE: THE FUTURE OF ORCHIDS
Journey Through a Tapestry of Orchids
((TRT: 02:00))
((Camera/Editor/Producer: Zdenko Novacki))
((Location: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.))
((Description: Explore the beauty and conservation of over 100 orchid varieties at Washington, D.C.'s National Portrait Gallery.))
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((TITLE)) SERVICE COMPANION
((TRT: 01:00))
((Original Camera/ Producer/Editor: Jeff Swicord))
((Social Media Producer/Editor: Lisa Vohra))
((Blurb: Jackie Meline has used a wheelchair throughout her entire life. Approximately a year and a half ago she started living independently and welcomed her first service dog, Nathan, whose companionship has changed her life.))
((NATS))
Get it.
((Jackie Meline
Service Dog Owner))
Nathan is my arms and my legs. He helps me so much when I am out and about and when I am home.
((NATS))
((Jackie Meline
Service Dog Owner))
He opens doors. He can turn off or turn on lights.
((NATS))
Good boy.
((Jackie Meline
Service Dog Owner))
He picks up dropped items.
((NATS))
Good boy.
((Jackie Meline
Service Dog Owner))
And also can get me items that I can’t reach on my own. ((Jackie Meline
Service Dog Owner))
Thank you.
((Jackie Meline
Service Dog Owner))
I definitely would recommend other people with special needs to look into getting a service dog.
((Jackie Meline
Service Dog Owner))
Go through.
((Jackie Meline
Service Dog Owner))
I think for my mental and emotional well-being, I don't even know how much I need Nathan before he came into my life.
He’s made me a more outgoing person. We know each other so well and I really feel like we work as a team.
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