Animal Welfare Education in Romania

Dear Supporters and Friends,

The past few months have seen even more education outreach for the animals.

We have been very active with education campaigns with Dr Aurelian taking part in a London Christmas fair with our UK representatives giving information to the public about the work we do and why we do it. We also sent one of our Vets, Dr. Luiza,  to a book fair for the launch of a book called "Floss the Lost Puppy "which is in Romanian and English with some of the proceeds of its sale being used to support our work. There was the opportunity for Luiza to meet and talk to students from local schools about animal welfare. She was pleased to find the majority were very concerned about the welfare of animals in Romania.

Our education in schools work continued in December with a visit from around 30 children from an after school group. They had the opportunity to look around the center, see some of our cases, listen to a heart with a stethoscope, look down the microscope as well as find out about what the work of a vet and vet assistant involves. It was a lot to take in and we were very impressed how interested they all were.

The Veterinary Training Camp project had two attendees Zita a student from Denmark and Catalina, a sponsored vet from Cluj, Romania who returned to continue her training. She sent us this comment on her return home

"Hi Nancy! I am on my way back home. Thank you for the great oportunity to work with the dream team again. I feel more confident to do surgery on my own now. Also I wouldn't have been able to go to the center of hope if I wouldn't have been able to take my toddler with me. Thank you for the amazing work you do for the Romania animals!"

January saw the return of the British ambassador to Romania, Paul Brummel. This time he visited The Center of Hope and found out a little more about our work and our plans for the future. With his help there may be the opportunity to make some connections within the English schools within Bucharest which would be a great opportunity.

Thank you for continuing to support our work in Romania, and enjoy the photos from the Center of Hope and the book launch in Bucharest!

Links:

• website
• Facebook page is updated daily

Greetings Friends!

We are working hard every day to spay/neuter, run the Homeless Animals Hospital project, continue sponsoring the Veterinary Training for Romanian and Bulgarian vets, and educate the community on animal welfare.   This is what we are asking for your help with this Fall and Winter.   Education is needed so desperately in the poorest areas of Romania where our team works.

We have printed and distributed 18,200, twenty page ,full color education books for both children and adults to learn the importance of spay/neuter and basic pet handling skills.  These books accompany us on our spay campaigns throughout Romania for distribution to the communities we reach.   We also have shared these books with a school teacher, Carmen, in Craiova to begin her classroom education project.  

But we need more books.   Our Center of Hope is becoming the "talk of the town" in Piteasca village.  Friends have sent clothes and toys for local children in the village for distribution by our Team.   We are reaching the children and elderly who need help as well as their animals, gaining their trust with a helping hand for them and the animals in their care.  This gives us a golden opportunity to share more books, coloring books, and our hats with children.

The cost to print one book is $1.39 each.  The cost to produce one hat is $12.  I hope you can help us to continue and expand this project.  We have recently sent 200 books to Bacau area for a school education program there.  We can do this, but we need your help.

Please enjoy reading our Fall newsletter, featuring our milestone of reaching over 60,000 spays and neuters!  Our UK Dream Team will be at tables 20 and 21 at the annual Christmas Fayre in London.  Come by and meet Dr. Aurelian Stefan!

Thank you and Happy Holidays to you and your family!

Links:

• Fall newsletter
• our website
• our Facebook page