A part of the fund that was raised on 14th of February in BIS 3 was spent on purchasing food and medicine for dogs at the shelter. Along with Polina Semochkina I went to Metro Cash&Carry and bought:
16kg of conserved dog food
27l of bottled water.
Later we headed to a pet shop nearby our apartment block and purchased:
10 rolls of bandages
8 bottles of antiseptic
3 large tubes of wound healing cream.
The information that I have provided about “over 200 dogs” being kept in the shelter was outdated. There are 460 now, 4-8 of them in each 4x4 aviary. They are fed with porridge, rarely with real dog food which comes from volunteers. And all of them desperately want to find home.
It was emotionally stressful experience for me as seeing dogs looking up to you with their kind eyes and hearing them whine quietly as you leave was heart breaking. What we have managed to provide for them was very little but still something and I am nothing but grateful that we had an opportunity to collect money for that cause.
In the future, as an IB student, I will try to organize as many fundraiser in BIS as I possibly can to keep supporting “The Call of the Wild”. Shelter keepers have huge hearts and great patience and their work should be rewarded.
- planed and initiated fundraising activities
- worked collaboratively with others
- engaged with issues of global importance
- considered ethical implications of my actions
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