Orhei rescue mission

A few days ago we got a disturbing message regarding a Central Asian Shepherd dog, injured in a hit-and-run accident near the city of Orhei. According to our contact, the dog, unable to move its hind paws, spent two days by the side of the road.

Thanks to a prompt reaction from our Facebook community, our stray animal protection activists and a group of Orhei locals managed to locate the man who found the dog and finally take the dog to “Live” shelter.

Named after Irene, the lady that was bringing her food and water after the accident, the dog is eating well and already trying to get up. We are hoping for a full recovery.

VACANCY: Molovan Stray Animal Protection Society Volunteer

Vacancy for EVS Volunteer in Moldova, Republic of

Contact person: Natalia Alexandrov
Coordinating organisation: ADVIT ICYE Moldova 
Host: Association for the protection of homeless animals “ALGA”:http://www.alga.md/
Location: Chisinau, Moldova, Republic of
Deadline: 30/09/2014
Start: 01/10/2014
End: 30/08/2015

Association for the Protection of Homeless Animals “ALGA” is a non-profit organization, created in 2006. The Association is run solely by volunteers, who are dedicating their time and money to helping the homeless animals of the country.
ALGA’s objectives:
– reducing the overpopulation of street animals by using human methods;
– protecting street animals from the cruel and inhuman treatment;
– creating necessary conditions for a good coexistence between people and animals;
– education, by helping people to understand that there are other methods than killing dogs.
Our current activities are:
– introducing a moratorium on the killing of homeless animals;
– adoption of a municipal program with the purpose of reducing the overpopulation of homeless animals through sterilization/spraying as the only acceptable mean for population control;
– withdrawal of all rights from the state enterprise “Autosalubritatea” (Garbage and sanitation), currently entrusted with dealing with the homeless animals and transfer the matter under the control of the Veterinary Department;
– creation of a centre for sterilization, vaccination and temporary hosting of homeless animals in Chisinau;
– creation of a group of staff, such as specialists for catching homeless animals, vets, personnel for the care of animals etc;
– isolation of animals, representing a threat for the society (such as aggressive dogs or dogs with infectious diseases);
– adoption and implementation on a national level of a law on the protection of animals, including strict rules for animal possession;
– creation of educational programmes for younger generation, to be thought in the schools of the country.

Tasks
Volunteer will help to: – Clean and take care of the places where the animals stay. – Play with animals. – Create the places where the animals stay (putting the attributes on the right places) and make this places ready for the animals. – Do fortification and does behavior observation on the animals. – Feed the animals. – Help veterinary doctor. – Register animals and prepare reports this

Criteria
The main recruitment criteria is: – To be motivated; – Having experience with working in a NGO. It would be good if volunteer would have a small experience in being active in an NGO in his/her own country to show that the person really wants to take part in exactly this project; – Having affinity and experience in the work with animals.

Procedure
All interested candidates must submit their CV and motivation letter indicating the project they are applying for, when you are able to start your project and for how many months you are available, contact details of your sending organization to ADVIT Moldova by email advit_ewb@yahoo.com The selection of the candidates will be on-going.