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Santa Paws 2011

I'm raising money for Dogstar Foundation
“Christmas Appeal ”

on 5 November 2011

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Directly tackling the root causes of animal suffering, Dogstar provide sustainable improvements to the lives of animals in Sri Lanka. Our Sterilisation, Vaccination and Street Dog Health Care programs save lives. Our education programs create a lasting change to attitudes to animal welfare.

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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Verdana; line-height: 20px;"> <h1 style="font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 0px;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; font-size: 24px; margin-bottom: 2pt; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; color: #535353;">Can you be SANTA PAWS to a Sri Lankan dog or cat this festive season? </span></em></p> </h1> </span><span style="color: #535353; font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;">4 times a month Dogstar&rsquo;s Veterinary team in rural Sri Lanka takes the road (and dirt tracks) for our mobile outreach clinics. Aimed at households who would find the cost of transporting a pet to one of fixed clinics a problem, or animals who would find the journey traumatic, they are a great value way for us to deliver veterinary care and preventive treatments to those most in need. Each Clinic costs us just &pound;50 to run including all our veterinary team&rsquo;s costs, fuel, medication, vaccinations and consumables</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Verdana; line-height: 20px;"> <h1 style="font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 0px;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; font-size: 24px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; color: #535353;">Whilst there is no such thing as an average Mobile Clinic, on a 7-hour day we routinely treat 35-50 cases traveling over 50 km (a lot of that up and down hills!) &nbsp;Making it a very cost effective way of delivering the maximum treatment in the minimum time for the lowest costs</span></p> </h1> </span><span style="color: #535353; font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Verdana; line-height: 20px;"> <h1 style="font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 0px;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; font-size: 24px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Given the remote nature of some of our patients, the team often has to complete the last part of the journey by foot, or climb up or down steep embankments or even once to the roof of a property to treat an injured cat!</span></p> </h1> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Verdana; line-height: 20px;"> <h1 style="font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 0px;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; font-size: 24px; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: center;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; color: red;">Due to unprecedented demands on our services in the last few months we simply cannot afford to run our Decembers Mobile Clinics, can you be Santa Paws to a Sri Lankan Animal this festive season and help us keep our team on the road and providing&nbsp;these urgently needed treatments </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: red;"></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #666666; font-size: 24px; text-align: center;"><span>Every donation makes a huge differance Thank You &nbsp;</span></p> </h1> </span></p> <p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p>

Donation summary

Total
£265.00
+ £37.50 Gift Aid
Online
£215.00
Offline
£50.00

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