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UPDATE April 2005
- April 2007 (including iris`s entrance in oct 2004) |
We finally moved from our 2nd shelter
in orhaniye to datca road shelter in april 2005, even though it was
as stressfull as ever, we were excited to be at our own place at
last, and thanks to all the
donations of the people of germany, we had quite a good start
there............
1. one large enclosure with very large open cage housing all the
little cages for individual beds,
2. two 2-roomed containers for kitchen, clinic, depot, sick room and
toilet.
3. one smaller enclosure for the dogs |
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it was a good start, and being closer
to marmaris it was much easier than ever before. at last i had
easy access to the shelter and also to marmaris where i could
continue my work with the actual street cats.
it was also easier for people to find us and we had quite a few
visitors that first summer, i just wish that i
had had a camera to capture and remember everyone that visited us,
still, you all have a place in my heart if not in my memory!
during the first summer, ther wasnt much financial help so nothing
changed very much so we just muddled on.
we still had help from some of the big hotels such as the Mares
Hotel, Lidya Hotel and the Grand Azure
where we had tip boxes.
it was due to the tipbox in the Grand Azure that brought us our most
amazing and outstanding sponcer IRIS from
Holland.........................
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On the photo
(from left to right): Iris, Iris's father, the Mayor, Laura, Vet.
Behcet Duzgun, Iris's mother, Jeannie. |
IRIS OF HOLLAND
at the end of the summer of 2004, i had a phonecall from the hotel
asking me to come and talk to a customer
of theirs, IRIS and her mum had found a tiny kitten down under the
foundations of the hotel.
Iris had bravely climbed down and rescued this little wild thing
with just a small hand towel, it was completely blind
the problem was that they were leaving the next day to return to
holland and didnt know what to do with the kitten,
this is where i came in.................
i took the kitten home to my bedroom, bathed the eyes, and used
antibiotic drops the help with the massive infection.
after leaving a small donation iris and her mum left, i didnt have a
contact number for them but i had given
them my website adress.
all through that last winter in orhaniye the kitten named korkiz
(blind girl) thrived and became a beautiful gutsy young lady
she wasnt afraid of anything, it was just a shame that i couldnt
contact iris and let her know that the kitten had survived and
thrived.
so, i had a lovely suprise one day a the begginning of the summer
2005 when i had a call from holland, yes it was
the mother of iris, they were coming again to marmaris.
i couldnt wait for them to see korkiz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but i had even more amazing news to recieve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iris had indeed visited our website and immediately decided that she
wanted to do something, so all winter she
fundraised and collected free offers of food so much so that when
she arrived at the shelter she had 350 euros
and 350 sachets of whiskas kitten food, also a dossier full of all
the photos of her activities.............
i was reduced to tears at the enormity of what this 10/11 year old
child had acomplished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
everybody who saw the dossier was also filled with awe.
THIS WAS THE BEGGINNING OF A WONDERFUL FREINDSHIP
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it was a wonderful week, iris got
completely involved in the day to day running of the
shelter.....cleaning cat toilets,
feeding and grooming of the cats, nothing was too great for this
little girl from holland.
they left with the promise to return at the end of october 2005
again
IRIS AND THE MAYOR OF ARMUTALAN - MOHAMED UNLU
during the end of that first summer, the mayor of armutalan (a
suberb of marmaris), started to show interest in the shelter, this
of course was due to Behcet Duzgun, our vet, as he was on the
commitee of the municipality. the mayor was impressed with what he
had found out about the shelter from behcet, so much so that he gave
me permission to have a fundraising stall anywhere i choose within
the boundaries of armutalan. this was a great
breakthrough!!!!!!!!!!!
this is when i had the idea of helping everyone, i wanted to get
iris together with the mayor and thank them both at the same time.
i went to see the mayor (his door was always open to me, what an
honour) and i showed him iris's dossier. to say that he was
impressed was an understatement, he was bowled over and immediately
agreed to meet iris so that he could show her his appreciation.
a date was set during the october holiday.
it was a lovely day. iris presented the mayor with a dutch
porcellein cow and he a special municpality plate in gold leaf.
i spent most of the day crying it was so so emotional to see these
two very special people who couldnt exchange a word but could
exchange memorable feelings with eachother and everyone else in that
room including the press and tv.
the press then wanted to take photos of them at the shelter. this
was my chance to actually show the mayor what we had achieved so
far.
when we arrived at the shelter, the mayor was indeed impressed, he
couldnt believe that we had created such a wonderful
shelter without to support of the government and promised faithfully
to support us as much as possible. and he has!!!!!!!!!!!
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THE NEW LAND
At last! we have our OWN land. After nearly 2 years of searching for
the right place. Which was'nt easy because it had to be right:
- close enough to Marmaris
- far enough away from people
- water, electric no problem
- easy access
- the right price!!!
We found 6000 sq m of prime land 4KM from Marmaris and 100M from the
main Datca road, easy access (no more climbing goat tracks), 1KM
from the nearest village. Surrounded by national park so no one can
ever both us again.
Karen Potter and Hilfe fur Kalzen in ???? have already raised the
money for the land - IT'S OURS!!!!
(insert photos of land)
Now we have the last long struggle. The area must be secured,
electric and water have to be connected. A house for me (of course
my camping days are over having reached the age of 50 last year), a
clinic and extra room for visiting vets and helpers from Europe.
(Prefabricated buildings are the best quicket and cheapest). We are
now looking for at least another 30,000 Euros, any offer of help,
plese contact Tierhilfe or Hilfe fur Kalzen.
Also this time we want some kind of protection, therefore we have
applied to the Government in Ankara for registration to build this
cat shelter.
This time we are going to be official and protected.
Unfortunately this is going to take some time, we all know
Governments do not do anything quickly, but it will be worth it in
the end.
(New land final budget here . . . )
Once in the new land our aiös will again be enforced:
- Continue the feeding and sterilisation program in Marmaris,
Içmeler, Orhaniye
- Start a new street action campaign in Turunç (Neighbouring
Içmeler)
- Start an educational program for school children at the shelter
(one teacher is already available) and on local TV
- Find more and more homes for these beautiful Turkish street cats. |
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