My first CAS meeting.

On Friday the 17th of April I had my first CAS meeting. At first I only thought that we were going to discuss our goals for the project, but out of the blue a we were lucky to have the first visit of a trained dog to our school. The dog was brought to the school by an organization, bocalan, that trains dogs in order for them to help children with disabilities, either physical or mental.

When we first discussed the idea of helping this organization we didn't really think that it had anything to do with animal rights, we thought that it was more directed towards people that had disabilities, but after talking to the dog trainee we discovered that we could relate this with our project.

Here, in Peru, there is a lot of prejudice towards disabled people, there are various times when they are not accepted into public transportation, or there are times when they are not even let into public establishments, and if you add a assistance dog to this equation, then there will be more problems. Not only because there is not a culture of respect towards animas in Perù, but because sometimes people without even knowing can cause confusion in the dog.

We took all of this in consideration and we concluded that this may be one of the options that we may develop, we could do this by creating awareness first in the school through posters and talks, because one of our fellow classmates is going to start bringing an assistance dog to school.

Furthermore at the last part of the meeting we discussed some of the interviews that we wanted to have, we got an appointment to interview a veterinary in La Molina and we started to brainstorm some questions for out interview to the meat supplier of the refectory, APC, of our school.

Overall it was a great meeting and it made me look forward to what we are going to accomplish when the project is over,