And that's a really important thing.

Yeah, and probably good to recognise that connecting someone with a guide dog is not where the work stops.

So our guide dog mobility instructors keep working with people through the life of the partnership that someone might have with their dog.

And obviously the situation of the person changes, but also the dog grows up and matures and might change as well.

So There's a lot of work that happens throughout the whole life of that partnership, which might be six or seven or eight years, to just make sure that that partnership is still working and that the dog is providing as much independence as

And I guess, you know, organisations like Guide Dogs have got to be at the leading edge of all that sort of thing as well.

Yeah, and it's really the focus.

So whilst guide dogs is a critical part of what we do, a lot of what we do is working with people who might not be guide dog users, but might be looking for assistive tech that might help them gain as much independence as possible, look for ways that they might want to adapt how they live or the way that their home is set up, all of those sorts of things.

Tell us about the organisation because you do, say, wonderful work.

Yeah, so we're very much about guide dogs and the traditional view that people have of guide dogs, helping out people with low vision and blindness.

But we provide a range of other services for people who have vision loss as well and do a lot of things in the community like our partnership with the SANFL.

Do you do comfort dogs as well, or is that a different thing?

There's a lot of careers that a guide dog in training can have.

It's pretty tough for a guide dog to get through all of the hoops and hurdles that they need to.

So there's a range of careers that are available.

We've actually just spent the morning with Elmo down at the airport.