Things Are Looking Pup

There’s hope for Hong Kong’s visually impaired residents, as the city’s first guide dog training school, backed by revenue from an NFT project, opens this summer

By Zabrina Lo.

Walker is more than a guide dog to Rebekah Lam’s family. Seven years ago, her father, who suffers from inherited retinal dystrophy and can barely distinguish light and distance, took a misstep and fell onto the light rail track in Yuen Long. All his belongings fell out of his bag and his hearing aid battery fell off. “That was when I knew he couldn’t just rely on canes; he needed a companion,” Lam says. Back then, Raymond Cheung, the founding chairman of the Hong Kong Seeing Eye Dog Services, was advocating the use of guide dogs in the city, setting up kiosks around town to speak to people about the idea. “My father came across Cheung’s booth and stepped on a seeing eye dog’s tail by accident. To our surprise,…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2022

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