By Hazel Skeet | Manager
Hallo once again and welcome to our latest quarterly newsletter. It has been a busy few months with lots of visitors, puppies and weather! This month we have had torrential rain, for day after day and night after night, followed immediately by heat in the 40’s.
At the beginning of January, we were approached by some people living near Tifnit a small coastal village just south of Agadir, asking for help with the street animals left behind after the village was demolished. We are providing food for them and will see what other help is required in the longer term.
We finally got permission to start building our new enclosures at the Shems Refuge. At last, we can go ahead with our plans to expand and improve Shems and we can give up the tenancy at Clebs Refuge. This will mean better facilities for the animals and staff at the refuge and save us a lot of time and money in caring for the dogs and managing and supplying the refuge.
We hosted a visit from Jennifer Skiff with a team of photographers from We are Wildlife. We are Wildlife is a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering conservation projects across the globe. Our campaign is a departure from their usual projects, and we are very grateful for their involvement. Together we are working on the bigger picture to improve animal welfare in Morocco. We hope that we will soon have a targeted campaign informing both Moroccan citizens and the world about the progress that is being made, what still needs to happen and raising awareness of animal welfare rights in the kingdom. We know that we have a long way to go, but we can feel the tide changing and so we keep our faith and keep working.
At the end of February, we were involved in getting two dogs ready to be flown to their new homes by private jet. This was a project organised by YouTuber Zac Alsop and his team. You can see the video here.
We have a had a huge intake of puppies over the last couple of months and unfortunately with the puppies came Parvovirus. Despite our best efforts and many vet visits, we lost 10 puppies to this horrible disease.
During the last three months 14 dogs and 3 cats were adopted and are now living happily in their forever homes. We also vaccinated and neutered 188 cats from the Agadir streets and 40 dogs.
And finally, our building project on the extension to the Farm Refuge is progressing slowly. For now, we can only erect temporary structures, so our clever team have devised a way of using mountable panels to create safe enclosures for dogs. The dogs will all have access to a large play area as well as being safe from the extremes of weather that we are experiencing.
Thank you for reading this far and for your support. We are often thanked by our donors for the work we do, but really every one of you who supports us is making a difference to the street and working animals in Morocco. Every penny that is donated is valued and goes towards caring for the animals both in our refuges and on the streets.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts
Hazel and the team at SARA
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