Our shelters

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ROLDA GOAL IN 2010 : 2,500 STERILIZATIONS WITHIN GALATI

Female dog spay 23 USD + 31 USD medicines;
Female cat spay 19 USD + 24 USD medicines.

We rely on our donors and supporters to contribute anyway they can to achieve this goal.

The free sterilization campaign sustained by ROLDA presently goes in two parallel fields in Galati area:
1.Sterilization of homeless dogs from Mittal Galati;program fully sustained by the steel group.
2.Free sterilization campaign for homeless animals within Galati region: spaying and neutering small animals (dogs and cats) without owners or with owners with low income.

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INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS SUBSCRIPTION CONTINUE IN 2010

Update from Ann and Maria from Norway:

"We are two Norwegian veterinary students, Ann Kristin Solvang and Maria Johansen, we are in our last year at school and we wish come to Galati and voluntarily work with stray dogs and cats. We want to combine this trip with our final university assignment about anestesia. We hope to come for three weeks either during the spring or fall 2010 and by then we will work to get donors and sponsors to the project. We really look forward to meeting a new culture, neither of us has visited Romania before and it will be a exiting experience for us! Your organisation do a fantastic job for animals in need of care and we look forward to be a part of that!
Maria Relling & Ann Kristin S.,Norway"

Please learn more about the volunteers program on our website's "Volunteers" section and contact us if you want to join it; we would need to know basic things about you: your name, arrival/departure date, how many persons coming, experience with animals, references (if the case) from your local shelter.
ROLDA offers free accommodation at the shelter cottage and references for our excellent volunteers.

Thank you!

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RENOVATION PLAN 2010 FOR ROLDA ADOPTION CENTER

Our new ambition is to completely renovate the 6+ years old dog kennels, this is estimated to 60,000 USD.

Thanks to a local company,we are hopeful to receive a grant to cover 70% from the veterinary clinic costs,but we need to raise the rest which is almost 100,000 USD.It is a huge amount of money and a very ambitious project for our resources but it will means a new future to Romanian animals and people with low-income which care for them.

Photo: REX veterinary clinic plan

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LATEST NEWS

ROLDA also purchased some of the materials needed to build the cat sanctuary.We still need 5,000 EUR to complete the cat building.In addition to that 10,000 EUR are needed to refurbish the dogs paddocks and 20,000 EUR to completely renovate the cottage where international volunteers stay for free.

ROLDA ADOPTION CENTER

"...The ROLDA shelter was top-rated among 17 Eastern European animal shelters" evaluated by Animal People's editor Merritt Clifton in 1999-2005.... and re-evaluated in March 2010:

"ROLDA shelter scored 79 in 2004, at the time the highest score I had given in Eastern Europe. Despite the battering that ROLDA shelter has received from the elements in the interim, it scored 84(from a total of 100 points possible) in 2010, benefiting from various improvements made since 2004. ROLDA shelter remains conceptually sound and a safe, comfortable environment for both dogs and the people who work there.

Thanks to our devoted supporters,our dogs have plastic beds,tiles on the floor +heating, cozy blankets,dog toys and soon all the kennels will be completely renovated.What would have happen with these dogs if you were not helping us?!

RESCUE CENTER FOR STREET DOGS

Built on a 15, 000 sq.m. , the shelter was conceived initially for Mittal surroundings strays problem, where the estimated number of homeless and unwanted dogs are around 5,000. In time, this establishment will be a support base for both homeless animals and people caring for them.

photo:Dog rescue center,winter 2009

RESCUED DOGS DEPENDING ON YOU

ROLDA need to raise 1,500 USD/monthly NOT to close down the Adoption Center, where we shelter 30-50 dogs which are ready to be rehomed to European famillies, and where the cottage to accomodate foreign volunteers is placed.