ROLDA NEWSLETTER, OCTOBER 2009

 

 

 

Dear animal lover,dear friends and supporters,

Please take a moment to read ROLDA October newsletter which includes news about our work in Galati, Romania.

 

 

photo: Carmen from ROLDA needs a permanent safe home!

 

Dogs like Carmen have no chance on the street without your support! Help ROLDA sterilize the countless Romanian strays roaming everywhere in the town, exposed to daily dangers, help us offer decent sheltering! Thank you! ROLDA team.

 

Sterilization program: Local and international support to help ROLDA control homeless overpopulation problem in Galati

Arcelor Mittal is the sponsor of the new ROLDA dog center,  and since 2007 has been our biggest benefactor - but as much as this company  has helped us to do, their assistance only gives us the facilities we need to help the dogs and cats of the Galati region.

Having good housing for the animals we have just sterilized and the animals we are offering for adoption is essential to our work.

Still we need our other friends and supporters, like you, to rescue, medicate, operate, and educate. Arcelor Mittal has given us a place to work from. Our individual volunteers and donors provide the loving care.

This appeal is meant to remind you that we still need donations to help us "lock the door" here in Galati against more street dogs and feral cats being born.

There are unfortunately still those in Romania who would prefer to just lock up street dogs and feral cats and leave them to starve, as continues to happen in miserable pounds around the country. We are unlocking those animals by demonstrating that sterilizing and vaccinating the animals and adopting them into homes or returning them to suitable habitat is a much better approach.

There are still those in Romania who recommend cruel, bizarre, and ridiculous approaches to reducing our homeless animal population. Some would do things that might have appalled Count Dracula. As silly and ineffective as this sounds, it is really no different in principle from people trying to keep their female dogs and cats in heat behind locked doors to prevent breeding.

It is necessary for us to teach these people to have their dogs and cats spayed, and to provide access to skilled surgeons who can do the operations free or for a very small donation.

We ask for donations from the local people we serve, and other local animal lovers, but we cannot ask for very much yet. Thanks to Arcelor Mittal, Galati had a few years of growing prosperity after Romania came into the European Union – but Arcelor Mittal makes sheet steel for automobile manufacturers.

When the world economy went bad last year and people stopped buying cars, Arcelor Mittal was eventually forced to lay off thousands of workers. Even the workers who still have their jobs are now helping to support more family members. More Galatians than ever are thinking of their dogs and cats as family members, as result of our 10 years of active public education, but their relationships with furry friends are often still young and fragile.

Arcelor Mittal understands that the underlying reason why Romania has a homeless animal crisis is that not nearly enough pets are spayed or neutered. Therefore, even though Arcelor Mittal is currently not able to guarantee us as much help in the future as they have provided in the past two years, they have made us an extraordinary offer of matching funds for spaying or neutering dogs and cats.

Arcelor Mittal will pay for sterilizing 2,000 animals by the end of 2009,we already done 1,013 and 900 more to go for a mission completed. If our wonderful friends and supporters will pay to sterilize as many, we should be able to stop any increase in the animal population in at least the parts of Galati we are able to serve.

We wish to especially thank several people who have already donated generously to our spay/neuter campaign.

photo: Galati street dogs

 

The very first donor to the matching fund was Annabell W., whose work on behalf of homeless dogs and cats in the United States was legendary long before she became one of our first and most generous American supporters.

 

Annabell never told us who she is or about everything she did many years ago to help popularize spaying and neutering pets and homeless animals in the U.S., but the more we learn about her from other friends, the more honored we feel to have her as a friend and supporter.

We also wish to mention Sarah H. from the U.K., who volunteered for two weeks here in Galati to help our free sterilization program. Sarah was extremely helpful at the shelter, where her skills and knowledge in taking care of dogs and cats) were even more valuable when Flori - our regular caretaker - had a terrible loss in her family. Sarah took professional care of this unexpected situation. Sarah treated all of the new-coming animals, and all of the dogs already in our shelter, and prepared dogs to be transported to adoptive families in the U.K.

 

Our veterinarians are also very grateful to Sarah for her dedication and great work. Thank you, Sarah, for caring about Romanian animals and for all your volunteer time spent to help us!
We hope you will come again because these animals need people like you!

 

We also have a new veterinarian coming to help at the ROLDA shelters. Let her introduce herself:

“My name is Dr. Jackie Campbell. I am an Australian-trained and registered veterinarian. Over the past few months, whilst traveling throughout Eastern Europe, I became aware of the serious problem of street dogs and cats. Many of the homeless animals I saw were malnourished and in need of veterinary attention.

However, even more heartbreaking than dogs and cats in need are the litters of puppies and kittens being born into such conditions. I believe that whilst all  these animal deserve health treatment and a happy home, the true solution to this growing problem is through targeted sterilization programs.I was attracted to the work of the ROLDA because they recognize not only the need to treat and nurture all those in their care but to reduce the incidence of unwanted pregnancy as part of a more long term health plan. This work is so important and I urge everyone to get behind this amazing foundation so they can continue to support the plight of the Romanian street dogs. I intend to visit the ROLDA shelter in October and assist with their sterilization program. Thank you for any support you can give."

 

Please continue to contribute to our sterilization program as a human alternative to reduce homeless animals overpopulation in Romania!

Donate 10 USD for a female dog sterilization

Donate 50 USD for 5 female dogs sterilizations

Donate as much as you can afford to help us buying the veterinary supplies to cover the remained 900 sterilizations cost for matching the grant and accomplish our mission: a total of 2,000 sterilizations in 2009!

 

4,008 STERILIZATION DONE IN GALATI SINCE 2004!

Special thanks goes to SPANA UK, HSI USA, PINERIDGE UK, ON-SHORE FOUNDATION, VETI-MED AND ARCELOR MITTAL for sustaining financially ,with products and veterinary personnel our free sterilization campaign in Galati.
A special "thank you" goes to METRO Cash & Carry Galati for permission of placing a charity collection box where local animal lovers contribute to maintain the sterilization program free of charge.

 

NEWEST SUPPORTERS SHANNON AND PAUL ORGANIZE A HALLOWEEN FUNDRAISING EVENT TO PROMOTE ROMANIAN STRAYS CAUSE

“2009 Vampire Ball” in Sacramento,CA to raise money for ROLDA and Romanian street animals.

Shannon McCabe and Paul Dale Roberts are holding this year s premiere Halloween party, the 2009 Vampire Ball. 

A raffle will be held at the Vampire Ball with all the proceeds going to McCabe & Roberts charity, ROLDA. (Romanian League in Defense of Animals ).  On October 31st, 2009 there will be Vampires giving back to Romania, it just makes sense.Vampire related memorabilia and autographed merchandise will be raffled off with all the proceeds going to improve the life of thousand strays in need!
THANK YOU SHANNON & PAUL FOR WORKING SO HARD TO MAKE KNOWN ROMANIAN HOMELESS ANIMALS CONDITION!

 

HELP ROLDA'S PROJECTS

 

2010 ROLDA Desk Calendar -"Romanian stray story"

 

 Let us introduce you Archie…remember him? Adopted by our friend and special supporter, Gill; he presently lives happy in UK . Archie is one of the most lucky Romanian (formally) street dogs and recently he was chosen to become famous all over the World … being the featured star of ROLDA 2010 calendar’s cover “Romanian stray story”….available to be ordered for 10 USD /calendar!

Please click here to order one or more beautiful ROLDA calendars,a perfect gift for friends and family made while helping countless animals in need! 

Donate!

 

Every 10 USD donation will help us to raise the needed funds for matching grant offered by Arcelor Mittal to cover a total of 2,000 sterilizations procedures in 2009!
Your contribution will save countless lives and will assure a safer future to street animals of Romania!

 

No donation? You still can help us!

You can promote ROLDA and Romanian street animals cause by adding on this web banner on your socialization profile ( facebook, twitter,…),group or web. It will not cost you anything while you’ll be promoting our cause among your friends!

 

 

ACT NOW IN ANIMALS FAVOUR!SIGN THE PETITION!

Click here to ask the authorities to improve the dogs living conditions from local pounds and to transform these places according with EU regulations!

 

 Thank you!

 

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SPECIAL THANKS

Our endless gratitude goes now to special friends and supporters:Annabell, Belinda, Dave,Debbie, Julia, Karen,Karin, Kirsten,Heather, Helga,Ghislaine,Gill,Letizia,Lis,Maria, Michael,Nevine,Roxann, Shannon,Suzie,Susan F.,Susan H.,Patricia,Paul,Panagiotis,Robin, Teresie,Thomas, Valerie,Veronica,Victoria.
corporate /foundations partners and collaborators: ROLDA USA, RAA UK, ARCELOR MITTAL, VIATA LIBERA NEWSPAPER, VETI-MED GALATI,1 WOLRD SCOTLAND, DERPAN,METRO CASH&CARRY

 

ROLDA 2009. Do you want to be part of our dream?

How you can help us help the animals efficiently and economically?

Write/sponsor an ad in your local newspaper about our project' needs!
Post articles, comments about Romanian dogs plight!
Place a charity collection box in your favorite local pet shop or other pet friendly stores!
Organize a fundraising event (car wash, cake party, ...);
Print our leaflets and spread out the word about us!
Mention ROLDA in your will.

How you can directly help us?
Become a volunteer at our shelter !
In the past 5 years, the international volunteers program brought animal lovers around the World to ROLDA shelter cottage to meet our dogs and speak further about the animals' tragic reality from Romania.
If you want to be part of our unique program, if you want to spend a Holiday in Romania and help us as volunteer while we'll be offering you free accommodation, please contact us and be part of our dream!
Adopt from our shelter a dog/cat rescued from streets and offer it a new chance in life!
Visit the ADOPT A ROLDA DOG page and choose your lifetime new friend. ROLDA is covering all veterinary and travel documents costs and we'll arrange together the most convenient way to transport your protégée safely to your home.

You can also support financially our daily activity and future projects by monthly donations (sponsor a dog with special veterinary needs, adopt a dog at distance, sponsor a kennel) or one-time donations /grants.

We accept online donations on our website (Pay Pal), cheques and bank money transfers/wiring in our bank accounts in UK, USA and Romania (please contact us for bank details).

Please remember that you can tax-deduct your contribution while helping our voiceless friends that hopes will not be forgotten.
Every dogs and cats item that you can spare, please send to our rescued animals at the following address:
Costin Dana, 16 Feroviarilor Street,Bl.C2, ap.18 - 800563 Galati , Romania.

 

With respect and friendship,

Dana Costin
President,
Romanian League in Defense of Animals (ROLDA)

"Saving Romanian strays since 2003..."

 

 

 

ROLDA is a registered charity in Romania(CUI: 18416340) and a 501-c-3 charity in USA,registered as Romainia League in Defense of Animals(EIN:32-0176929).

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