Chiens Guides D'aveugles D'ile De France

What Chiens Guides D'aveugles D'ile De France does

Chiens Guides d'Aveugles d'Île-de-France is a French non-profit association founded in 1975 and headquartered in Coubert, in the Île-de-France region. Its core function is to educate guide dogs and to allocate them free of charge to people with visual impairments, addressing mobility and autonomy needs for blind and partially sighted individuals. The organization operates as one of the recognized guide dog schools in France and depends on a combination of professional staff, volunteer puppy-raisers, and a kennel operation typical of this category of service provider.

Based on the input data, the organization employs between 11 and 50 people. No revenue model, pricing structure, or funding source details are disclosed in the source material — consistent with a non-profit that delivers its primary service (guide dog allocation) at no charge to beneficiaries. Its economic model is therefore implicitly donation- and grant-funded rather than transaction-based, and the input does not provide donor logos, grant disclosures, fundraising campaigns, or any segmentation of its income base.

The source material available is unusually thin: the organization's public web property (chiens-guides-idf.fr) appears in the input as a WordPress installation page rather than populated content, and structured fields covering management team, partnerships, products and services, technology stack, certifications, awards, and operating geographies are all empty. As a result, the product surface, technical architecture, distribution channels, and strategic positioning of the organization cannot be characterized beyond the founding brief — guide dog education and free allocation to visually impaired individuals in the Île-de-France region.

Name

Chiens Guides D'aveugles D'ile De France

Legal name

Chiens Guides D'aveugles D'ile De France

Website

https://chiens-guides-idf.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Chiens Guides d'Aveugles d'Île-de-France is a French non-profit, founded in 1975 and based in Coubert, that trains guide dogs and provides them free of charge to visually impaired individuals in the Île-de-France region.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Guide Dog Training Services

NAICS

Pet Care (except Veterinary) Services (812910)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHSANAFAE

Training-Integrated Dog Daycare (Day Training)

Home & Personal Services/Pet Grooming & Boarding Services/Dog Daycare

SECONDARYHSANAFAM

Dog Daycare with Boarding Add-On (Daycare + Overnight)

Home & Personal Services/Pet Grooming & Boarding Services/Dog Daycare

Keywords

• Guide dog training
• Mobility assistance
• Service dog education
• Visually impaired support
• Canine assistance services

Headquarters

HQ city

Coubert

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Core offering

Chiens Guides D'aveugles d'Île-de-France trains guide dogs and assigns them at no cost to people with visual impairments. Founded in 1975 and based in Coubert, France, the organization operates a non-profit breeding and education program that prepares guide dogs for independent mobility. The trained dogs are then allocated free of charge to blind or visually impaired recipients in the Île-de-France region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Guide Dog Education and Allocation Trained guide dogs are educated and allocated free of charge to blind and visually impaired individuals to support independent mobility. The program covers breeding, raising, formal guide-dog training, and final matching/hand-over to the visually impaired recipient.

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Direct peers

• Leader Dogs for the Blind: US nonprofit based in Rochester, Michigan that trains guide dogs and provides them free to blind individuals. Direct peer in charitable guide dog training, with a similar nonprofit cost-recovery model.
• Fédération Française des Associations de Chiens guides d'aveugles (FFAC): The national French federation of guide dog training associations; the direct coordinating body of which the subject organization is a member school. Most comparable peer given shared French jurisdiction, mission, and training methodology.
• Mira Foundation: Canadian nonprofit that trains guide dogs and service dogs and provides them free of charge to people with visual impairments and other disabilities. Highly comparable mission, training model, and free placement economics.
• Guide Dogs of America: US nonprofit guide dog training school providing dogs free to blind and visually impaired clients. Comparable nonprofit training and free placement structure.

Broad incumbents

• Guide Dogs (UK): The largest guide dog charity in the UK, providing guide dogs and mobility services free of charge to blind and partially sighted people. Comparable mission and nonprofit training model, though much larger in scale and geographic scope.
• Guide Dogs for the Blind (US): US nonprofit that trains guide dogs and pairs them with blind/visually impaired clients at no cost. Closely aligned charitable training and placement model, but serves a different geography (US West Coast focus).
• The Seeing Eye: The oldest guide dog school in the world (founded 1929), training dogs and instructing blind handlers. Shares the same guide dog training and free placement mission and is a benchmark for nonprofit guide dog operations.

Others

• International Guide Dog Federation: Umbrella federation setting standards and accrediting guide dog organizations globally. Adjacent ecosystem participant that governs and benchmarks members including the subject organization.

Regional players

• Royal Guide Dogs Tasmania: Australian guide dog training organization providing free guide dogs to blind Australians. Comparable mission and service model, but operates in a different geography (Tasmania/Australia).

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