Opening the doors to guide dogs


Stevens Chan, 52, and Lashawn Chan, 2. Lashawn is the first seeing eye dog in Malaysia. Stevens, founder and CEO of the Glaucoma Society Malaysia, hopes to make guide dogs for the blind a norm.

IN her 1933 essay Three Days to See, Helen Keller (1880-1968) described what she would do if she were suddenly to have vision: “I should like to look into the loyal, trusting eyes of my dogs.”

Keller, a renowned American author who was hearing and vision impaired, was also famously quoted saying: “What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”

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