We were speaking to Marcelle du Plessis the Fundraising and Communications Manager for Mdzananda Animal Clinic she mentioned that she thought during the lockdown they would be expecting a lot of stray animals to be brought in because people lost their jobs and not everyone will be able to maintain their pets, but people had more time to spend with their animals.
The covid-19 pandemic is hard on them they lost nearly R200 000 every three weeks they had a lot more expenses due to things becoming more expensive and now their clinic is packed full so they have a lot of animals that need help and they do not have enough hands to deal with all of the animals and what they’ve also experienced is that the economic impact on the public they had many many monthly donors who had debut orders set up and they were donating R100, R50 and whatever they could afford a month and unfortunately people had to start cancelling those debut orders so its most definitely having an effect on them.
Marcelle mentioned that the government doesn’t support animal welfare they mainly support humanitarian organizations which is understandable cause we have a lot of human struggles as well, the support that the government gives on a local level is that once a year they’ll respond to a sterilization campaign they help to get the animals sterilized to help with overpopulation but they as an organization cannot apply for funding by the government what they doing right now is they’re reaching out to the public, they’ve just launched a campaign which is called PAW MEMBERS so you can become a PAW MEMBER and this means that you will donate a monthly amount that is R20, R50 or R100 whatever you feel that you can donate and then you become a member and this means you get a certificate and a birthday card.
The Paw members are the blood flow of their organization helping them monthly to carry on moving and this specific campaign currently is that they hope to find at least 1 000 PAW MEMBERS each donating R100 a month and if they can achieve that then their finances will be stabled and will be set for a good amount of time in the future.
Presenter: Mkhuseli "Khusi" Veto
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