Assistance dogs are expensive but changing people's lives

Helen Vivian Fletcher is a children and young adults author in Wellington, she suffers from multiple auto-immune disorders as well as a sleep disorder where she can often cause significant injury to herself. In 2018 she was given an assistance dog called Bindi. Assistance Dogs New Zealand provide dogs for children and adults across New Zealand living with a number of conditions from autism and epilepsy to diabetes. But Kiwis can wait up to 5 years for access to assistance dogs that could give them independence. Helen told video journalist Sam Rillstone having Bindi has changed her life.