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Originally Posted by clouds z
http://www.monkeyhelpers.org/
Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled is a national nonprofit serving quadriplegic and other people with severe spinal cord injuries or mobility-impairments by providing highly trained monkeys to assist with daily activities.
We raise and train these monkeys to act as live-in companions who, over the course of 20-30 years, will provide the gifts of independence, companionship, dignity and hope to the people they help.
Helping Hands also educates thousands of young people annually through the Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program (SCIPP). SCIPP teaches preventive measures for safety awareness, heightens sensitivity to the challenges of being disabled, and promotes understanding of the human-animal bond.
Through the generous support of donors and volunteers - just like you - our monkeys are placed at no cost with disabled people and their families.
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I posted about this in the MS Forum. It was a great story on the Today show. They work with disability groups such as the Semper Fi orgranization who are right now working with soldiers returning from Iran and Afghanistan. It's a very worthy cause.
Each monkey costs $35,000 to train and place and it doesn't cost the recipient one dime! It was truly a fascinating story!