ROLDA UK TEAM

 

  Please meet the ROLDA UK team which is composed by compassionate animal lovers which volunteered in the past two years at ROLDA dog centres in Romania.

 Dave Griffin is our new representative person for ROLDA in United Kingdom.
He volunteered in summer 2009 and came back in spring 2010; attending with our employees to all activities involving animal catching, sterilizing and releasing plus helping with the daily activities at the shelters.

After leaving Romania, he become a constant supporter writing articles about his experience here in various UK animal publications, he donates constantly from his pocket to our sheltered dogs plus he felt in love of one of the “veterans” of our shelters –VALI- a three legs dog with a problematic behaviour which Dave kindly adopted in his home. Please read MISS BONNY(alias VALI)story here!

 

  

When Veronica Titchener –our former UK representative and long-time friend decided to quit her position because of her personal family and health problems –Dave accepted to take her place and continue promote ROLDA in Wales and England.

 

photo:Dana visiting Veronica T,summer 2009

 

Veronica can be reached by email because she will continue to promote ROLDA the best she can ; we couldn’t find the words to express how grateful we are to her hard work in the past 8 years Veronica helping us build a strong network in UK, collected and transported dogs and cats supplies to Romania, volunteers with her husband at our shelter cottage in 2004  where they helped with daily activities and building/painting work; raised thousand of pounds to help us build the Adoption Centre and  fund the sterilization program.

 

 

Romania Animal Aid helps rehoming our rescued dogs in UK

Our friend Chrissy P. from London visited ROLDA shelters with her friend,Janet in fall 2008.
Being terrified by Romanian strays terrible conditions and seeing our ambitious plans ,she returned home determined to do more for our rescued friends. She registered Romania Animal Aid (reg no:1133543) in UK and immediately start helping us mainly rehoming dogs in safe  permanent families; she built a network of people doing home-checking and follow-up visits/updates photos, she also raise funds to cover the expensive transportation fees.

photo:Chrissy and Janet at ROLDA,2008

 

Chrissy sustains ROLDA cat unit building and promotes Romanian animals needs abroad in her country, thanks to her efforts, Irish Retriever Rescue help us rehoming.

 

If you want to read more about our partnership and RAA activity please visit http://www.romaniaanimalaid.co.uk and subscribe to be a cause member on Facebook:Romania Animal Aid

 

Her friend Janet G. which accompanied Chrissy in Romania- founded Romanian Organized Animal Rescue –ROAR- group and established an informal agreement with Dogs for the Disabled in the UK (a UK Charity that provides dogs to help various human disabilities i.e. wheelchair-bound, blind/deaf, disabled, autistic, etc.), who will take in the future labrador-type dogs agile, gentle with any human age groups and get on with other dogs/cats/birds.

 

As part of this next project,Janet will kindly pay for the charity to train them for up to a year, after which they will be homed with a 'disabled' person or child.

 

If you want to donate directly to Romania Animal Aid(reg charity UK:1133543) for help us the rehoming program please use the following bank details:

 

Account name: Romania Animal Aid
Account details S/C: 08-92-99
A/C: 65316603
Bank name: Co-operative Bank
Bank address: P.O. Box 250, Delf House, Southway, Skelmersdale WN8 6WT

 

And if you want to donate directly to ROLDA UK: 

 

Account name: ROLDA
Account number 35587121
Sort code 543016

Bank address Nat West
Band address Station Road   Port Talbot   SA13 1YH
 

 

Address for cheques (made payable to ROLDA)

Dave Griffin - ROLDA UK
19 Glyndwr Street; Port Talbot; South Wales SA13 1YH 
01639 794842     
00738 761553 

 

or for sending supplies donated for our dogs and cats:
12 Salisbury Close
Potters Bar
Herts
EN6 5AX, UK

 

We remind you that our great UK volunteers and friends set up few collection points in UK:
 
POTTERS BAR
Chrissy
12 Salisbury Close, Potters Bar,
Herts, EN6 5AX. England.
 
PETERBOROUGH
Robert
The Grange,
Glatton, Huntingdon,
Cambs PE28 5RP
 
ASHFORD/ KENT AREA
Janet
18 Elmhurst Close
Orchard Heights, Ashford
TN25 4PT 

 

 

Please contact us/them if you can foster Romanian dogs (for a max 6 days lenght of time) in their journey to a permanent family or if you can start a new collection point in your area or simply join our team. 

 

 

CHRISSY TESTIMONIAL 2009

 

 
Dear All,
I work closely with an extremely well-run animal charity/shelter in Galati, SE Romania called The ROLDA Foundation (www.rolda.org).  The charity was founded by a lady named Dana Costin several years back in an effort to try and alleviate the suffering of the many thousands of young stray street dogs and puppies living uncertain and miserable lives.  Dana also runs an educational program in Galati aimed at the local communities in an attempt to promote the importance of animal welfare as well as the neutering of pets in an effort to control the chronic canine over-population problem throughout the country.

 

I've recently returned from my second trip to Romania seeing the work being done by this charity and was struck by the vast numbers of very young dogs and puppies living in their shelter with virtually no possibility of being re-homed within the country itself.  Whilst provided with food, shelter and a safe haven from the streets, they will simply live out there lives stuck in a kennel unless they are one of the lucky few to be chosen by adoptee in neighbouring countries.

 

Dana and The ROLDA Foundation work closely with another successful shelter located a few hours drive from them near the town of Oradea who have their own transport facilities through Germany on a monthly basis and they have agreed to let Dana have space for her pups/dogs to travel once their vaccinations have been done and the official paperwork is ready.
ROLDA have a solid working relationship with a nearby veterinary clinic in Galati which I also visited when I was there last and all animals are vaccinated, sterilised, wormed and given essential flea/tick treatment as soon as they enter the shelter and/or are old enough.

 

I am desperately trying to establish re-homing links on behalf of ROLDA with good animal shelters in Germany that could help secure a happy ending for just some of these beautiful dogs. Please meet some of our rescued dogs on:
www.rolda.org/
Please note, there are over 500 dogs in Dana's shelter and as mentioned above, they stand little chance of ever being adopted locally and therefore spend their days in a kennel with little exercise and almost no individual attention due to the sheer numbers being cared for.
If you are interested in learning more about ROLDA or would consider collaborating with Dana in an effort to find loving homes for some of her dogs, please contact us.
With much hope,
Chrissy P.
Romania Animal Aid
Supporting ROLDA
Romanian League in Defence of Animals