Volunteer From Home

If coming to India for hands-on-help is not in the cards for you just now, please know we have a buffet of volunteer ideas up our sleeve.

• If you have basic google research skills, you could help search for prospective donors by looking up animal-related foundations and charitable institutions and report back to Animal Aid if you think you might sense a possible link.

• Advertise Animal Aid’s needs through your local service clubs, veterinary clinics, schools and offices. We can supply you with photos and captions that tell the Animal Aid story in a 15-photo story-board. You could turn these into posters or just create a small hand-held photo album. The key is EXPOSURE. The more people can become friends of Animal Aid, the more volunteers and money we will have to improve animals’ lives.

• Research about animal medical problems, creating an electronic file dealing with the conditions we encounter most often and find the most challenging, such as mange.

• Look for new organizations who would be willing to include links to the Animal Aid Unlimited web page.

• Use your facebook friends to spread the word about Animal Aid’s deeds and needs

If you have your own ideas don’t hesitate a minute. Contact us through info@animalaidunlimited.com and let’s talk! We’ll tailor your skills to Animal Aid’s needs.

The following page is taken from an appeal letter we mailed out in 2009. The ideas still look pretty good to us.

Idea #1: Staff for Staff! Invite your co-workers to help the workers at Animal Aid workers save lives.

Volunteers are amazing, but it’s the members of staff who give puppies their night feeds; it’s staff who plaster the torn tendons of donkeys; and it is staff who push back and sew up a prolapsed uterus, dress the wound of a broken horn, a crushed hoof, and turn dying animals into survivors. Today in the USA, $40,000 is considered an average wage for one single person! Here it means 30 people are on the job full time taking care of the angels in Animal Aid.

Animal Aid’s emergency help-line often rings after five, after everyone has gone home, and doctors, nurses, drivers, dog-catchers and assistants are called to action to rescue animals late into the night. After an intense day of work, it’s hard to get up out of bed to go out and load another 400-pound injured cow into the ambulance, or try to find a dog suffering from a maggot wound down a dark alley. See why we need your help, and the help of your friends or co-workers, oh so much?

Idea #2: Have a Dinner Party for Dinner! Filling an un-owned animal’s belly with food and love is an amazing feeling and we hope you can help others experience the joy.

Each day, 200 animals gain their strength and health back with medicine, love, and of course, food! Puppies need milk, eggs and our home-made cereal made from finely ground wheat with added molasses and warm milk.

Cows are big eaters, costing Animal Aid $4/day in food. Donkeys, with their rambunctious natures win second place in the dinner races.

Please, help us provide animal food.

Other fund-raising ideas:
Fancy (vegetarian) dinner with small auction (if you have contacts for merchandise or experiences like get-away weekend hotels )

Ask your colleagues to donate a morning to Animal Aid animals. Whatever they earn before lunch could be contributed to Animal Aid. You could show them the DVD slide show on your computer at lunch.

Give and…give! Ask your friends or family if they could both cook    something for a vegetarian/vegan potluck AND “pay” (donate) for dinner! Tell them that you’re bringing drinks (for example), but that you’re charging for them just like in a bar. Consider gimmicks like having a donation cup near the bathroom door, suggesting a price for water, tea, etc