Wednesday, 20 July 2016

Behind the scenes

Running an animal organization consists not only of rescuing and caring for orphaned kittens, the castration of stray cats, rescuing (possibly ill) stray dogs and puppies, looking for a good home for the dogs, organizing transport if they are adopted abroad, organizing bazaars to generate cash or placing and retrieving the collection boxes.

There must also be spent a lot of time on the administrative side: accounting, tracking the status of each dog (vaccinations, medications, etc.), updating the website and Facebook, answering many emails.

Or, like now, in reactivating the ACT PayPal account.
If the monetary traffic at PayPal exceeds € 2,500 certain documents must be submitted in accordance with EU rules.
This is no problem, until you find out that PayPal is a slow organ, there are always new - or even the same again - data requested, and none of PaypPal's employees are really engrossed in your file.
But thanks to tenacity and perseverance we have now, 2½ month, 26 emails and 24 phone calls later, finally full access again to our PayPal account. And it was about time, because bills need to be paid.




Monday, 11 July 2016

First Summer Bazaar 2016

Last Saturday we had our First summer bazaar of this year.
Although there weren't many tourists we still made a good result of € 339,45 on sales and donations.
We were very pleased to see that many Greek people visited us and are interested in our work.

We couldn't have done this without the help of our volunteers. We would like to thank them for loading and unloading the trailer, building up the stall, making the wheel of fortune and products, selling our products, polishing nails and then late at night breaking up again.

And of course we thank all the shops that donated the prizes for the wheel of fortune.

We hope to see you all again on our next bazaars at the 6th of August and the 3rd of September!