Whether homeless animals or people who grieve for them - everyone values sympathy and external help. All the more so because some our countrymen show absolute indifference to the problem of cruelty towards animals, and to stray cats and dogs in particular. The more enjoyable is to experience that somewhere at the other world's end there are people in respectable Netherlands who value our efforts, and who are willing to help us with their own money! People who don't differentiate between Dutch and Ukrainian dogs and who think that cruelty has no place, nowhere on the Earth. And what is most important, they are ready to personally sacrifice something in order to make this vision come true.
We thank WERELDASIELEN (Netherlands) from the very bottom of our hearts for the money for saw timber for the construction of 200 dogs' kennels. Due to this generous donation the shelter will renew vast majority of the "housing stock" this summer, so the dogs get a robust and warm houses for the next several years. The shelter experiences so wide "apartments" renovation perhaps for the first time ever!
Moreover, we are deeply grateful for sponsoring the salary of one shelter labourer till the end of 2010.
The labourers' salary is one of major and most important items of shelter's expenses. One can slightly postpone the payment of household running costs, one can freeze the repair and construction, but the salary must be paid out on time. It directly depends on the number of workers, how much work will be done, whether the dogs and cats get quality care. The salary is a long and constant need therefore, in contrast to hardly predictable tempo of shelter's budget refill. That's why guaranteed funds are particularly valuable.
The donation of WereldAsielen is more than just financial aid, which is so important and necessary of itself. It's continuous recognition of our efforts, the sign of confidence and the powerful stimulus towards new achievements for all us. Thank you!
Svetlana began to help the shelter in 2008 in kind of a volunteer, and short afterwards as a staff member. Her first task was the cats house: cleaning, feeding, looking after the cats. After she mastered this work, Svetlana extended her domain to include dogs. Today she is one of the most experienced shelter employees. Physically hard and dirty work, primitive living conditions, modest remuneration of labour, continuously arising challenges that need their solution, - all this contributes to staff turnover. Retention of skilled employees is therefore very important. And guaranteed salary that came true due to Wereldasielen's support in 2010, is its foundation stone.
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