Attitude make difference!

[Guest guest]

Dear Padma,

 

I am running ambulance service for strays since past 9 years now. Daily

we get 4 injured animals calls. We ask everyone to contribute Rs.100/-

per animal. Some people contribute & some not. We collect 40% of the

required funds from road for running 2 ambulances in 5 suburb cities of

Mumbai.

It not he matter of poor or rich - affordable-not affordable. Our past

experience shows that if a caller have respect & positive attitude then

they contribute but collect even Rs.10/- for everyone. Some people sit

in car, say wow...shoo cute... etc etc. cries when it come to donate

Rs.100/-, but we attend all cases comes to us. But we make sure that

such wealthy caller who does not pay get good from outside when he calls

us next time.

What we check is the caller's attitude towards cause!

Regards,

Nilesh

 

 

padma [padmaeva]

Sunday, April 19, 2009 2:13 AM

aapn

Bombay SPCA and lessons to be learnt

 

After reading all the postings and all the links given, I reflected on

our

work in Kandy. All our volunteers just bring in rescues and animals to

be

sterilized, some get all their transport and telephone-expenses

reimbursed

by us and up to now not one of them has done anything for fundraising,

but

we know that they all are very sincere and none of them would ever try

to

take personal advantage of our group. However it's a valid question,

which

Merrit raised: someone has to do the fund-raising too. if all we do, is

to

rescue and to sterilize free of charge. strays and owned animals as

well, if

the owners can't afford it. it's not surprising that we are always on

our

last penny. and if the few kind people, who have supported our work up

to

now, suddenly would not be able to do so anymore, we would have to stop

our

work.

 

Yet, with all the financial problems we face, I don't think charging

fees

from people, who want to get a stray treated, is a good way of getting

an

income because the only result will be, that more strays die on the

street

without receiving treatment. It may happen here too, that people ask us

for

help for an animal, saying that it is a stray, while in fact it is their

own

pet, but if we would ask them to pay, they would just leave it to suffer

or

dump it somewhere so that they don't have to see it suffering.

 

I don't know whether this always works out (it worked for us up to now),

but

sincerity seems to be felt by someone out there. Some people have time

to

contribute, but no money, others have no time, but some money, which

they

give, so that those, who give their time, can do the work to be done.

Forming a group to help animals makes it possible for these two kinds of

people to meet.