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Students
from both pre and basic school levels, from the Almancil Schools Group have put
their artistic skills at the service of animal welfare. The initiative results
from the protocol signed between the schools and Animal Rescue Algarve, which
aims at consolidating the educational work of both parties, in order to build
more sensible and conscious future adults.
As the end
of the first school term comes to an end, the students decided to focus on
themes that reinforce the importance of raising awareness of animal
mistreatment, sterilisations, and the negative impact of having dogs in chains or
street cat colonies, among other topics.
Some works
focused on explaining how to proceed with sterilisations and why, while others
appealed to a greater consciousness of the negative repercussions of putting
dogs, “who also have feelings and can feel pain”, in chains. Some other
interpretations had a more creative angle, exploring the multiple ways the
words ‘cat’ and ‘dog’ as written across a variety of languages, as well as
their dietary habits.
Among the
various drawings and creative interpretations, the students also organised a
food and goods fundraiser, resulting (among other things) in donations of
animal feed, toys, and leashes for Animal Rescue Algarve’s rescued animals.
Located in
the Cabanita area, in Loulé, the non-profit’s shelter has seen the rescue and
rehoming of over 1000 animals since 2018. Animal Rescue Algarve, whose focus
expands well beyond its shelter, has reinforced is commitment towards the
importance of Education, mostly through visits and protocols with schools –
Interactions that, according to the charity, are central to a systemic change
of how animals are perceived and treated in Portugal.
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I love animals and have never abandoned (I have had pet abandoned by someone else at my care). That said, I still remember Brits sipping their beers, coffees, while looking at Chinese couple trying to throw black man in wheelchair- disturbing no 1 – onto the floor and doing nothing - This in broad daylight, near lunch hour, with Pt Policeman in the corner “enjoying” the abuse displayed (Praça da Figueira, November 2018). Maybe if you ex pat communities really knew what SOLIDARITY REALLY MEANS, WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, your campaigns might be way more successful. It´s hard to hear lectures about animal well fare from people who see locals as less than THINGS.
By guida from Lisbon on 28 Dec 2022, 04:45