Currently pregnant, Belle Fifille is very weak...
1,800 kg
Dry food offered
1,800 kg
Dry food necessary
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Animal Webaction visited the site 13 December 2019 and confirms the situation described below.
If this collection fails, Animal Webaction cannot be held responsible for the deaths of dogs caused by a lack of food.
Svetlana has no more kibble to feed the street dogs, they won't make it through the winter!
In Serbia, Svetlana and a handful of volunteers are fighting to save the street dogs, who cannot be taken in anywhere.
The kibbles are exhausted, Svetlana begs us to help them.
Following her SOS, we went there on December 13th.
The donations are insufficient, and the meagre resources of the volunteers do not allow them to buy kibbles!
We wish to help them, by sending 1800 kg of kibbles as a matter of urgency.
Due to a lack of space and infrastructure, it is impossible for Svetlana and the other volunteers to accommodate all the street dogs: more than sixty of them are now forced to spend the winter outside ...
If the volunteers take time to feed them every day to help them through this difficult period, they are now backed into a corner: their kibble stock is gone, they can no longer help them!
Last March, the Animal Webaction community rallied to support Svetlana, sending 3500 kg of kibble on the spot.
Nine months have passed since then, and Svetlana has no more kibble to distribute to the dogs... The leftovers she manages to get to feed them are random, the lack of kibbles puts the dogs' lives in danger, as well as the survival of the whole association !
We can take action, we've already booked a truck and pallets, but we have to pay it before January 9th.
If the collection fails, we will not be able to pay, the departure of the truck will be cancelled and none of the croquettes collected will be delivered .
In case of failure, we will reimburse all donors.
Due to the lack of food, the ORCA organization intervened in support of the association in mid-November, bringing 500 kg of kibbles.
But this stock is now totally depleted, and it is impossible for the organisation to renew this help. We are Svetlana's last resort to find kibbles!
"We don’t have any resources other than individual donations, and of course we don’t know how much people will want to give us. Those of us who have a job donate regularly, but we have our own difficulties and some months we are stuck !" explained Marija, one of the volunteers during our exchanges.
With few resources and so many expenses, they can't afford to buy more kibbles.
"We've been fighting for 11 years. And we've got something now" says Svetlana, proud to make a real difference for abandoned dogs.
Supported for the past two years by the Brigitte Bardot Foundation to organize spaying and neutering campaigns, the association is making a major contribution to reducing the population of street dogs year after year, and improving the situation of those who remain there.
We must help Svetlana and the other volunteers to continue their fight!
Faced daily with the terrible situation of street dogs in Serbia, Svetlana has been involved for decades in helping them, and created the BAK association in 2008.
"The Serbian law in terms of animal protection is rather well done" Svetlana explains. Unfortunately, institutions are very cautious when it comes to enforcing it. As an individual, I had no clout against the authorities, and it was easy for them to ignore me. That was the first thing that led me to create a formal association. Today, local authorities are forced to count with BAK, as with other associations in the country."
Svetlana is very involved in raising awareness, and therefore intervenes in schools, at conferences, as well as in court for cases of abuse.
Through all these actions, Svetlana invests all her savings, her energy, her health, and her personal life for her cause, but everything relies on her... Let’s not let her down, she needs us!
It is estimated that Serbia has about 100,000 stray dogs. Private companies were commissioned in 2012 to capture these dogs: their dogcatchers (the name given to the employees responsible for the capture) have been operating throughout the country since then.
Receiving bonuses for each dog captured, dogcatchers hunt dogs relentlessly, and use extremely violent capture techniques. Many dogs are killed, the others end up crammed into killing pounds, without care or food.
Volunteers believe that their actions, in addition to being cruel, do not have a beneficial impact on the volume of stray dogs in the country. Worse still, they greatly undermine the beneficial actions that have existed until now: the subsidies allocated since 2007 as part of a vast national sterilization program have been drastically cut, despite encouraging results when they were carried out....
This collection is organized by the BAK association, chaired by Svetlana. The 1800 kg of dry food collected will be delivered to Svetlana to feed the 106 dogs cared for by the volunteers, as well as the street dogs.
- Animal Webaction has been helping more than 833 animal welfare associations over the past 5 years, with more than 1,967 deliveries in 8 countries (see photos).
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- If unfortunately the collection fails, we will not deliver anything, we will refund you the full amount of your donation.