Habersham Animal Shelter fundraising for life-preserving transportation van

The Habersham County Animal shelter is fundraising for a van that is considerably additional than a method of transport– it is a way to help you save animals’ lives.

Habersham County Animal Care and Control’s (HCACC) team are devoted to earning sure deserted, surrendered and stray animals discover their way into for good properties, and 1 of the means they make that occur on a 7 days-to-7 days basis is through transports.

“Since 2019, HCACC has been capable to conserve hundreds of life by transporting canine and cats struggling with euthanasia to animal welfare organizations in the northeast and the midwest U.S. exactly where they were adopted,” HCACC Director Madi Nix suggests. “However, we have had to count on the generosity of other rescue groups to present unused house on their transports when offered because we do not have our personal transportation motor vehicle.”

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Nix suggests that the shelter has served agencies transportation 1,176 pets, about 50 % that quantity staying from the Habersham shelter, that struggled to come across residences in the area in the earlier calendar year alone. But mainly because the shelter has to depend on other companies to make individuals transports occur, Habersham transports fewer animals than they could.

Nix and the rest of the HCACC personnel hope that will before long occur to an finish with the community’s help. Appropriate now, the HCACC is fundraising for a committed transportation van of their individual that will allow them to transport those people animals all on their individual.

The animal shelter hopes to be capable to acquire a 2020 Ford Transit, which would allow them to transportation up to 40 animals in 1 vacation. The animal shelter does not now have a transportation van of its own.

“The new van will have the ability to transportation a bare minimum of 20 animals up to a optimum of 40 animals, in a mixture of up to 20 pet dogs and/or 40 cats for each trip,” says Nix. “Having our individual van will let HCACC to help save 1,000 in addition homeless animals for each 12 months, much more than double our existing selection heading on transports, while lessening the range of animals getting euthanized just owing to our shelter currently being overcrowded.”

The “Road to Rescue” campaign will operate by means of April, with a fundraising goal of $66,000. As of Wednesday, the fundraising marketing campaign has generated $3,694 with the assist of 25 donors. People can donate to the marketing campaign on the net by means of Fundly.

All donations produced for the duration of the Street to Rescue marketing campaign will assist obtain a new Ford Transit van, as properly as fund modifications, gasoline and driver fees for the to start with year. Area companies donating $5,000 or extra to the campaign will have their brand additional to the van and will be promoted on HCACC social media.

To find out much more about the campaign, or if you have any questions about HCACC, simply click in this article.

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