NEWS
CHARITY SHOPS FOR SASG :
On the 1st September 2008 we opened our first charity shop. This is
situated at 23 Fuxa Street, San Gwann.
In April 2009 we opened our second charity shop in Qawra Road, Qawra.
Since January 2009 we have paid for the neutering of over
1,400 cats and 12 dogs.
We need all sorts of goods - used and new - to keep our shops well stocked. Please
help by donating any
unwanted ornaments, books, pictures, plants, pottery, etc, etc. Surplus stock
or old stock which your business can spare will be much appreciated. All funds
will go towards helping stray animals. Volunteers for the shops are also
welcome.
Contact: Margaret on 79380103 or 21380103 or 27000103
FUND RAISING ACTIVITY;-
A fund raising lunch will be held in May. Details to be announced at a later
date.
Adults 20 Euro per person and Children 10 Euro each.
For Bookings and more information:
Contact: Margaret on 79380103 or 21380103 or
Janine on 79575765
SASG birthday/aniversary reminder calendar on sale at all Agenda Book
Shops and other outlets. Also available directly from SASG.
Calendar features only rescued cats. Selling at 5 Euro a copy.
Contact: Michelle on 99463671
NEWSLETTER 6 (July to Dec. '09)
STRAY ANIMALS SUPPORT GROUP
In the last six months of 2009 SASG charity shops raised enough money to enable us to
issue another 575 vouchers. This means that through 2009 we have neutered 1400 cats.
We thank our two great teams who run the shops and all who have contributed
The two BBQs we organised during the summer months were a great success and the money
raised was used to buy food and medication for the abandoned cats in our care and for
the cats we neuter and look after at our 'hospitals'. So a big thanks to all who
attended thus helping us to help them. A summary of our accounts is
included on our web site.
Paws presented us with a lovely donation of 500 euro which was used to help stray cats.
We were all delighted to see Paws back in circuit and working side by side with us in
issuing vouchers to help with the neutering of stray cats and dogs.
Sue and Roger who opted for donations to SASG on the occasion of their silver wedding
anniversary raised the sum of 530 euro for the organisation. The Qawra team also
raised another 490 euro on Animal Awareness Day
During these last few months the number of colonies we feed has increased considerably.
One such colony is at Little Armier. We received a report that these cats are left to
starve when summer is over and the caravan people go back home. We now need another
3 bags of 15 kilos each every month for these cats only. A few of our volunteers are
taking it in turn to go feed them daily. The cats are now nicely healthy and we have
started to neuter them. Thank you guys for doing a great job and for your good
hearts.
SASG also provides food for several other colonies, as well as for a few other feeders
who simply cannot afford to feed their cat colonies. We are often contacted by other
feeders who ask for help, but unfortunately we simply do not have the funds to help
everybody. However we have also footed several bills for stray cats/dogs that have
needed expensive or not so expensive, operations and treatment to save their life.
Throughout these last few months, September, October, November, December, our girls
have been out there trapping and catching stray cats from all over the place, driving
to the vets, medicating cats during recovery, feeding, cleaning, releasing….
day in, day out. I hope we all appreciate their dedication and hard work and how
time consuming all of this is - and that all of this is all done voluntarily.
SO with all this in mind, we feel we have to work a little harder to raise enough
funds to keep all our little friends well fed - especially during these cold winter
months. So we need to ask our faithful supporters to put up with us when we feel
we have no option but to increase our lunch price just a little - remember,
the extra euros will go towards helping unfortunate creatures who very often have
to go hungry.
The Committee
Stray Animals Support Group
Some of our rescued cats that are looking for loving homing can be seen on our
homing page. If you can offer one of them
a home please contact Janine on 79575765. If you cannot adopt a cat, you might
like to help by sponsoring one until a good home is found. Or you could sponsor
one of our not-so-sociable cats. Check out our sponsoring page.
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