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Galgos del Sol (Murcia) makes saving galgos in Spain a reality!

There is an ABSOLUTE NEED to highlight the plight of galgos (greyhounds) in Spain. This blog is to help the refuge, Galgos Del Sol in Murcia, Costa Blanca.
http://galgosdelsol.org/

A school visit by Galgos del Sol
Saturday, January 31, 2015

 

 

School visit Thursday 29th January.

 

 

 

School talks all finished at Hernandez Ardieta! Amazing children, wonderful teachers and fabulous GDS volunteers Sam, Raul and Zoe who are complete naturals at telling our story and educating the next generation!

Thank you everyone for allowing us this opportunity! Over 70 kids smiling today and three galgo tails wagging!

 

 

Huge thanks to Alexandra Frijmann from Holland who made these wonderful bracelets for the kids at school. Each child was given a free one after we finished the talk and they loved them! It says in English - "respect animals".

 

 

The new centre will be focusing heavily on education as well as rescuing these beautiful galgos! This video shows a fraction of our work with the next generation! Please enjoy and take a look at our indiegogo campaign (click here) to help us build a dream. Watch in HD


Please join GdS on Facebook click here 

Website click here

If you would care to donate to help the rescued Galgos please Paypal galgosdelsol@hotmail.com

 

 
 

 



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More about donations and volunteering
Friday, January 16, 2015

 

Volunteering with GdS

 

 

Below: Currently there are three volunteers at GdS, helping Tina. Ingeborg from Galgo DutchGalgoLobby and her friend Lenny are currently with GdS as volunteers. So exciting as Ingeborg has been before. Welcome back!

 

 

 

Also .....below .... you all know superstar Sam (from Madrid!)

 

 

CHALLENGES TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE CENTRE.

* Support Fiona's Marathon challenge 2015, monies go to GdS. Click here please & read all about it.
      Event: Edinburgh Marathon Festival Full Marathon 2015 on 31/05/2015. *


 

* Support Jaime Solera's 'chilli dip', please read all about what Tina's husband is going to do next & donate for Galgos del Sol by clicking here, thanks!   *

 

Below: Huge congratulations to Amanda Jane who completed her Devon Sea 'chilly dip' on New Year's Eve to raise money for GDS new centre!

 

 

She did this via JustGiving as we recently became a UK registered charity! Yay! Amanda was our first JustGiver and raised £400. Well done Amanda and thank you to everyone who supported her!

Amanda achieved over 200% of her goal see here 

 

Please join GdS on Facebook click here

Website: Please click here

To make a tax deductable donation in the US please Paypal  galgosdelsolusa@gmail.com

 To make a donation in Europe please Paypal   galgosdelsol@hotmail.com

 For other donation options please email us at  galgosdelsol@hotmail.com

 
                    

 



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Why Galgos del Sol Needs a Center - Interview with Tina Solera
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

           

From Tina: "Please share, our situation is critical. Please share this Indigogo link  ... click here... and the video, click here for Youtube link. On Indigogo there are endless ways we can be helped. You can sponsor a brick, a tree, a bench, a kennel, name the exercise yard, you can even name the shelter .

We need to build a centre and the plans are so exciting! Last year we raised the money to purchase land, hire an architect to design a facility to code that has been approved by our local council and bring in electricity and water. We are legal charity and our land has been zoned and approved to be a rescue and education centre. What we now is the funding for a small building and kennels. 

186 galgueros in Murcia use 1245 galgos, plus 600 unregistered use 1800 more. Murcia is around 4,300 m2, Spain is around 200,000 m2, you do the maths. 1000’s of galgos need us, but we are saturated, we can’t scale up any more, we are at our full capacity and we MUST get our centre up and running to have ANY chance of impacting on the lives of these dogs.

Rescue and rehoming is priority but re-educating/informing is the future. We MUST spread the message throughout and beyond Murcia, we want to be a pro-active solution not just the mop up crew

Thank you so much for everything that YOU have done for us so far but we need more. We need you to share this video and our Indiegogo page  (click link on the left please) to everyone you know, to groups that you belong to, to anyone you know who can promote our cause or donate to it. We can’t do this without you, we are desperate for your help …. just as the galgos are desperate for ours."

 

 

Please support GdS on Facebook here  

Click here for their website: 

To make a tax deductable donation in the US please Paypal galgosdelsolusa@gmail.com

To make a donation in Europe please Paypal galgosdelsol@hotmail.com

For other donation options please email us at galgosdelsol@hotmail.com

                 

 

 

 



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GIFT BOX support Eva to buy blankets plus toys for the Galgos puppies
Monday, January 12, 2015

                  

 

From Tina, President of GdS. "Eva is one of our youngest supporters! Take a look what she is up to now... "

From Eva "Hi everyone, I'm Eva and I live in Belgium.

Next month I will go to GDS again with my mom & a very good friend. Because of that I'm doing a new project to raise money so I can buy really needed stuff like blankets and toys for the puppies.

Please support GDS and me with my little project, let the dream of a 16 year old come true..."

 

SUPPORT GALGOS DEL SOL BY CLICKING THIS LINK TO EVA'S CAMPAIGN.

it ends February 15th so every day counts

                

 



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Over 60,000 galgos die in Spain each year, please help our cause
Thursday, January 8, 2015

 

Over 60,000 galgos die in Spain each year, please help our cause, we are their only hope.

 

                        

 

From Tina, President of Galgos del Sol

"OK guys, it’s a new year and time to get SERIOUS. We have just launched our 1st crowdfunder to raise money for the centre. Please look, please help and please, please, please SHARE THE HECK out of it!

2015 is the year that we will build our centre, yayy! We just need to sort out the small issue of raising funds and this is where you come in!

Our first campaign this year is all about ‘CROWD FUNDING’ and we are sure it will be a big success. So please click on the link to see what it is all about and how you can get involved, not to mention three exclusive unseen GdS videos that you will LOVE!"

 

PLEASE LOOK AT >>> HELP US BUILD THE GdS CENTRE

 

"We have the land, electricity and water, but we need to raise funds to build the kennels and move our 100+ hounds into a proper facility."

 

PLEASE LOOK AT  >>> Galgos del Sol Education and Rescue Center

 

Below: I especially love this video with Tina's children featured in it. They truly are the best kids.

 

Family at GdS

 

 

Please join GdS on Facebook 

Website: Click here please

If you would care to donate to help the rescued Galgos please Paypal galgosdelsol@hotmail.com

 
 

 



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