Dog trainer to support clean water charity - Malvern Gazette

2:20pm Tuesday 10th May 2011

A LOCAL dog trainer will be donating all the takings from her next course to a charity dedicated to providing clean water to people in poorer parts of the world.

Sue Harper specialises in teaching dogs to ignore livestock. With the support of the Malvern Hills Conservators, she runs six-week courses in a field near to the Downs Malvern College school, in Colwall.

With her next course starting on Sunday, May 22, she saw an opportunity to support a cause close to her heart.

“This year I intend to ask participants to make the £60 cheques for the course payable to Water Aid instead of to me,” she explained. “Having spent a month training dogs in a poor rural area of India I have become very aware of the burden women bear in many areas of the world walking miles carrying water.

“Water Aid is a charity committed solely to providing safe clean water. I am in the privileged position of following a career I love, living and working in this beautiful area which has close connections with, and an abundance of, free water.”

Water Aid has strong links with Malvern, as local supporters have raised thousands of pounds through the “Penny-a-Pint” initiative, which encourages people to make small donations when they draw water from springs and spouts on the hills.

For more information, or to enrol on the upcoming Teaching Dogs to Ignore Livestock course, call 01684 568067 or email sharperdogs@hotmail.co.uk.

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