Ref No
: U – 31
/ 171/ 99
Date: April 24, 2007
Introduction
This is the third
quarterly Report for ACFA project form January to April.
In this quarter, it
is when our society seems weaken at the beginning due to lack of necessary
support but finally survived with the support gotten from the society’s
main supporters
for
spay neuter
and educational
activities and managed to carry out part of the planned activities of the
this quarter though some problems such as shortage of drugs were
encountered.
Activities
carried
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In this quarter due to the society’s management strong effort, Spay
Neuter and Vaccination budget for more than 60 dogs which is a one month
budget and regular fuel consumption cost has been provided from
AMSALE GESSESSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION USA for the overall activities
and also for ACFA project, which was needed for Education, Spay Neuter
and Administrative purposes.
Ø
ACFA project also managed to get budget for educational
activities from Marchig Trust UK.
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Awareness creation activity is carried out for more than 35,000 people
in the project area during the entrance and exit hours of workers and
students and also in crowded and targeted areas using the microphone
fixed on the car and by distributing 2000 leaflets, 1000 brochures, 1000
stickers and 50 T-shirts.
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In addition to the Administrative and fundraising activities, The
project office is always open even in the weekends and holidays due to
full dedication and kind understanding of the staffs and volunteers to
give online counseling and also to deal with people coming to adopt dogs
and to visit the shelter and the clinic using their holidays free time
due to this 426 people were given service on online in this quarter.
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Adoption of more than 58 puppies and adult dogs by saving from being
thrown to hyena, deep water and garbage and dogs that are found while
doing our regular patrol that are abandoned due to the transfer of their
owner to other places due to different social and work reasons.
Ø
27 dogs were spayed and neutered.
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3 euthanize due to the sever accident caused on them by the use of the
drug gotten from the Donkey Sanctuary, in Debre Zeit.
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The project is also managed to be visited by one of the private media.
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Maintenance and improvement of the existing shelter is also been carried
out.
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Facilitation of the necessary pre conditions for our supporter
organization coming from USA to visit the ACFA project and the condition
of Homeless Animals of Ethiopia and the wildlife in order to decide how
they can help in the future by doing so we managed to contact the
concerned government higher officials and get supportive letters and
good ideas for the successfulness of their visit.
Ø
Mrs. Katrina Morrison and Dave Price Two Australian citizen supporters
who visited our project last year also came for the second time in this
quarter and served a three days voluntary service with the usual
volunteer clinical year students of Addis Ababa University and
also contributed their usual donation both in kind and in cash to
support the activity of the project.
Problems
There are problems
of animals all over the world though the degree differs from one part of
the world to the other, from developed nations to developing nations,
deliberately or due to lack of awareness, and our society believes that
those animals in a sever problem should be given priority to get them out
of the problem as it has great importance in all aspects.
That is why the
society’s founders and the project staffs works day and night to capture
dogs for spay neuter and handle emergency cases with out any hesitation
and with no insurance for the risk that might happen on their life.
Even if our effort
made animal welfare to be accepted in our country and practically seen and
believed nationally and internationally, the society could not get the
necessary support it should get for the successfulness of its dream and
for ACFA project which the society get in to an obligation by signing
operational agreement with the government due to the sabotage done by few
people happened in the Bale Mountains because of the argument between our
society HAPS and themselves due to their proposal of dog shooting by
the name of saving the Endangered Ethiopian Wolf, which finally
never saved the Wolf.
In addition even for
the society to work with the capacity it has currently, shortage of
necessary drugs and rabies vaccine in the local market became an obstacle.
Conclusion
Our unbelievable
effort, by withstanding all burdens posed on the founders and members
devotedly worked very hard to bring a better situation for the animals of
our country, we could not even manage to work the planned project
according to the time schedule due to the above mentioned problems.
Finally we would
like to thank those individuals and organizations that stood beside our
society in providing all round support for its activity for the animals
and would like to request again to be with us for the continuation of this
blessing idea to be realized for the sake of the needy animals.
Signed
Hana
Kifle
Project Manager
