On November 1 eleven Flintridge Preparatory School students gathered at a peer’s house in Altadena to participate in community service with SearchDogsUSA, the official licensing arm of the charity, National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF).
The 7th and 8th graders assembled 41 boxes packed with introductory cases of SDUSA’s newly launched line of canine supplements which will be sold at local pet stores. These supplements are key in SDUSA’s misssion, to create revenue for the Search Dog Foundation, specifically to help build 19 search teams for the class of 2014.
Between packaging boxes and chowing down on pizza, the students recited the search dog pledge which illustrates how the keen sense of smell and focus of a search dog can help save people buried alive in the wreckage of disasters.
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The emphasis on this day of service was to help middle school students gain interest in helping local groups and agencies, making SearchDogsUSA, located in South Pasadena, and the Ojai, California based National Disaster Search Dog Foundation a great fit for the project.