From Kosovo StrayCoco Half-Year Report

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WE ARE ALSO HAPPY TO RECEIVE COMPLIMENTS!

But dear animal rights activists,

Please understand that we cannot always write to you personally. We are a one-woman company, despite the Board of Trustees, the work is done by me alone. At the end of the year, I promise all donors over 30 euros at least one Christmas card - worldwide. But here I would like to thank everyone very much for any contribution. Not everyone has enough income — your donation counts and your compliments are read. Thank you!

Yes, there is a lot that sets us apart from traditional animal welfare organizations. We work in a very structured, sustainable way in defined regions, set models, enable kick-offs from local NGOs and start-ups from small animal clinics. All of this is part of sustainability - even though not everyone understands that we can't look for and treat a dog somewhere in every individual case. We have been continuously traveling in Kosovo for 9½ years (with individual assignments over years in Montenegro and help in Albania) ALONE with the castration program. This requires endless joint efforts, which are carried out free of charge here in Switzerland.

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HOW CAN YOU HELP?

‍Please distribute our quarterly letters to your friends with a passion for animal welfare. We urgently need more helpers, because active help is not possible without donations. We don't just sit at the PC and attend meetings, but we DO something with a visible effect. Paper is patient, as can be seen in Kosovo, where laws and memoranda are passed full-bodied with promises, without results. Since a well-known awarding foundation no longer supports us this year following a change of management - we need you.

Kind regards

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‍Helen Wormser

‍President of the Board of Trustees

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INDIVIDUAL RESCUES EXCLUSIVELY IN OUR AREAS OF OPERATION

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Schüchterner Strassenhund — *The little male looks very shy when food is placed for him - in Skenderaj. But his eyes are sad, he seems old. We can't leave him on the street like this!*

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Kranker Hund in der Tierklinik — In fact, he is around 9 years old and was probably thrown away due to illness. We help him with his heartworm - treat him at Mitrovica Sanctuary! Who would like to take over the sponsorship with 45 euros per month?

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CONTINUOUS CASTRATION WORK CONTINUES IN FOUR REGIONS: SKENDERAJ/DRENAS/VUSHTRII AND GJAKOVA

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In three of the four regions, we work together with the city administration, which co-controls and co-finances the operations. In Gjakova, there is still a community program running until July with our project management team, which we are in demand again. In all four regions, we also finance sanctuaries for sick or too young dogs, which we cannot treat on an outpatient basis in the streets. Thanks to sponsorships, a contribution is made to the monthly feed. We are very thankful for that.

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VOLUNTEERS IN MITROVICA: THANKS TO SWISSCOY!

In July, SWISSCOY and Finnish KFOR will help us to level the newly acquired property so that we can then install our dog pens and enclosures. We are very grateful that there are helpers who don't cost us anything. But we need donations for the fences and stables - things will move slowly, we have now taken the first step. The small animal clinic is then built by us together with the vet Osmani. Like our other partners, he will take out a mortgage for this, and we will help as much as we can. In addition to treating dogs, building an infrastructure for small animals is our most sustainable work - our help with start-ups for small animal clinics since 2018 has already brought a great deal to the country and pets!

What makes us particularly happy is the participation of the city. The property was previously only accessible via a muddy dirt road! The city has now begun construction of roads to our future sanctuary/small animal clinic.

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Wald in Mitrovica, Kosovo — Our place for the sanctuary

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Landstrasse in Mitrovica, Kosovo — the renewed access road

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EVEN PRIVATELY KEPT DOGS NEED YOUR HELP

Preventing the abandonment of puppies is important to us, which is why we offer penniless citizens in our regions of operation free of charge castration and rabies vaccination. And yes, there are occasionally insightful citizens like this man from a neighboring village who has hunting dogs and brought three of his females to our rented small animal clinic in Mitrovica.

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Tierpfleger mit Hunden vor ambulanten Tierklinik Bus

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INVITATION TO THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “on CAT AND DOG MANAGEMENT POPULATION” (ICAM)

Thanks to FOUR PAWS Vienna, we were invited to this international seminar because there was interest in our triparty program:

‍NGO local politicians, a program that we were able to present.

ICAM supports the development and use of humane and effective companion animal population management worldwide. The Coalition was formed in 2006 as a forum for discussion on global dog and cat management issues and is a registered charity (CIO Association) with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (charity number 1192921).
The motivation to form a coalition came from the realisation that several of the main organisations working on companion animal management had similar views and ways of working but no forum where arising issues could be discussed.