Greetings Friends,
We are making great strides each and every day in the communities near Center of Hope Bucharest area. We have a collaboration with Ilfov County whereby vans of dogs and cats come to our hospital for spays and neuters each Tuesday. The county supplies the volunteers, one of their vans (the other is our Spay Shuttle), petrol and coordination with locals in the villages. A meeting point is arranged in a village for animal pick up at a specific time, and the locals bring their animals (either owned or community dogs or cats) for drop off. Vans pick the animals up in crates and bring them to the Center of Hope where they are vet checked, spayed or neutered, deparasited and remain until they are awake. Then they are returned later in the evening to their guardians or rescuers.
This program has become so well received that we are now providing an additional 1000 spay/neuter vouchers, with information about why it is vital to spay/neuter to stop abandonment and keep animals off the streets and forests. Once these animals are sterilized the community treats them better, knowing they will not roam to mate or have endless litters of offspring.
We once again reach out to you, our incredible donors, to help us sustain this program. To date Romania Animal Rescue and our sister charity Animal Spay and Neuter International UK have spayed and neutered over 115,000 dogs and cats. We now have the new Spay/Neuter Extension at Center of Hope so that we are able to do even more work.
Please consider a $25 donation for a spay or neuter and change the fate of a deserving dog or cat. Thank you friends. Education through this collaboration with Ilfov County is the first of its kind in Romania. We are only able to do this as funds allow.
Thank you for reading this report, and I wish you a lovely Spring!
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Dear Friends,
We hope this New Year finds you well and that your holidays were wonderful.
Our work for the animals will continue and we need to push forward even more with educating the public on animal welfare. In 2022 our work under Dr. Aurelian Stefan was the feature for the Veterinari in Actione series on Prima TV Romania. It was a 12 episode series that covered the work of our vets and programs, and you can see it here https://www.primatv.ro/emisiuni/veterinari-in-actiune-20860931 (unfortunately it is not available in English). The reality TV program was the first of it's kind for animals, broadcast nationwide with the message of animal welfare, importance of humane treatment, spay/neuter and vaccines.
We hosted a number of students from Craiova for an education seminar in October. These students are interested in animal welfare as a future goal. The students were escorted around the surgery suites at Center of Hope, quarantine areas, kennels, and treatment areas and treated to lunch and drinks. Dr. Aurelian led the seminar with question and answer format and we distributed education books as well as individually autographed photos of adopted animals, before and after, for each student. Dr. Aurelian is a bit of a celebrity now so the autographs were a greatly appreciated.
We hope you will continue to support our extremely hard work in Romania. The region is facing an influx of new animals due to the war in Ukraine, and we are trying our very best to deal with this.
Thank you and best wishes for a Peaceful New Year!
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Greetings Friends,
We are thrilled to send you new photos from our first School Field Trip to Center of Hope Romania for 2022. Students came to learn about all the hard work we do to help the community animals and were given interactive educational booklets to take home and share with friends and family.
It was a fun day for all, including our vets and techs! Watching the children react when they could see ear mites under a microscope, view ultrasounds and x-rays, listen to an animal's heartbeat was priceless. We are encouraged that some young people asked about how to become a veterinarian, and how to speak to their neighbors about animal welfare.
These young people will help change their village, and hopefully one day put their passion to work for all of Romania!
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Greetings Animal Lovers!
The Romania Animal Rescue provided a scholarship for Dr. Elena to attend the Veterinary Training Camp at the Center of Hope.
We met Elena 10 years ago when we did a spayathon in Adjud. She was a local volunteer. She was inspired by this campaign to become a veterinarian herself.
Now Dr. Elena wanted to heighten her skill level and asked to attend VTC. We were able to give the $1500 scholarship as donations allow. VTC provides all the training and lodging for attending vets to become proficient in spay/neuter surgeries, emergency procedures and a high standard of care example for other vets.
Dr. Elena sent this to me:
"Hi, Nancy!
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