A big thanks to everyone who nominated a cause as our cause of the month. We’ve been sent so many inspiring stories that we’re finding it very hard to pick – everyone is a worthy winner.
So we’ve narrowed it down ten causes and now we’d like you to help us decide. The shortlist is below so please vote for your favourite to win the £150 donation. We’re sorry that we can’t choose everyone – we would love to but we do award £150 to one cause every month so please enter again next month.
THIS POLL IS NOW CLOSED
Vote for your cause of the month
- Animal Rescue Kos (45%, 2,317 Votes)
- Rudozem Street Dog Rescue (45%, 2,300 Votes)
- RAFT (2%, 95 Votes)
- Kids Against Domestic Violence (2%, 81 Votes)
- Water Aid (1%, 37 Votes)
- North Birmingham Cats Protection (1%, 34 Votes)
- Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund (0%, 25 Votes)
- Angel Children (0%, 24 Votes)
- 15th Scarborough Guides (0%, 16 Votes)
- Group B Strep (4%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 5,159
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I would like to nomiante RAFT for its excellent research into wound healing and skin cancer prevention which will make a difference to the ordinary people. Every penny counts…………..
ive worked in kos for 2 years now and think the animals are treated so wrong its disguisting
Please vote for RSDR! They are such an incredible, inspiring group. They really need all of the help and support they can get. Definitely got my vote!
Please vote for the Rudozem Street Dog Rescue Charity. They are currently fundraising for a dog shelter that can save so many dogs street dogs from the winter months.
In Kos, there is no RSPCA, no PDSA, no neutering program. In many of the villages cats are culled if they become prolific. It is common for children to tie fireworks to cats tails and kicking of animals is usual. Please support Animal Rescue Kos. They do great work and really make a difference.
RSDR gets my vote ! Good Luck x
RSDR is incredeble. They are sutch loving people. They gives these dogs all there love they need and give them a better live. But they need your support. RSDR …… keep on going. You get my vote.
On Kos there is no organisation such as RSPCA to help the animals, just the dedication of a few volunteers……… They need all the help they can get.
There is no RSPCA or similar in Bulgaria either….RSDR operates from the family home, they don’t even have a shelter. This is one family, (the only British family in the town/area) working against years of ingrained poor treatment and attitudes towards animals, trying to make a difference. Their home has literally been ‘eaten’ by the many dogs they have taken in, not a room in the house is a dog-free zone, their furniture and clothes have been ‘demolished’ by the dogs but still they never turn one away. Could you live with over 50 dogs in your own home? Would your neighbours be up in arms if you did? Then you can see a tiny element of what the family face every single day but they never moan and would never ask for anything for themselves, the dogs come first EVERY time! xxx Go RSDR!!!!
I hope for better days for these poor animals
Animal Rescue Kos doesnt have a shelter either, the money from this, just £150 will go to our foster homes that are on the island to encourage them to look after dogs over the winter period, if we have no foster parents for the animals we will end up with hundreds of dogs on the streets. WE DONT WANT THIS!
OUR HOUSES ARE FULL OF CATS AND DOGS, OUR GREEK NEIGBOURS COMPLAIN AND HAVE EVEN POISONED OUR ANIMALS THAT WERE ON THE FOOD PROGRAMME.
I WILL PASTE SOME LINKS FOR YOU TO SEE WHAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH
cats poisoned: http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2010/10/21/greece-mayor-candidates-do-not-care-about-animal-abuse/
http://www.facebook.com/notes/fight-for-animal-rights/sixteen-cats-poisoned-in-kos/450735026185
our website: http://www.animalrescuekos.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEHRREbMwss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twsv-rbq8L4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puY8AaSKl_A
take a look at http://www.greekanimalrescue.co.uk also. there you will see what we are all trying to acomplish
So many good causes and only one vote…I have given mine already but have bookmarked a few others for a donation if they should not win..if each of us voters gave a small donation it would go a long way. Good luck and thank you for the work that you all do, whoever you are.
£150 cannot be spent on a dog shelter! our problem is so big that as soons as funds come in they are spent on vet bills, medication, re homing, food and plent of other things!
PEOPLE STILL HAVE THE BELIEF THAT CHARITY STARTS AT HOME BUT PEOPLE IN THE UK DONT REALISE HOW LUCKY THEY ARE.
RSDR – I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO LINK YOU TO OUR WEBSITE AND HELP YOU TO GET MANPOWER IF YOU REQUIRE ANY HELP IN BULGARIA. I AM NOT AWARE OF THE PROBLEM OVER THERE BUT IF IT IS ANYTHING LIKE GREECE THEN YOU NEED ALL THE HELP YOU CAN GET X
Good luck to these poor animals in Greece
Every one of us is deserving and I am sure would put the money to where it is most needed. Unfortunately we are in an area where the locals treat dogs like vermin. Anyone who does have a dog has it chained up and they are lucky if they get a couple of pieces of bread a day. There is no one in this area who is prepared to foster dogs. This is why we now have nearly 60 dogs at our own home. Apart from the dogs and cats at our home, we feed many more dogs and cats that are on the streets. Many of these desperately need help and we are unable to take in any more. There are complaints that we are using our own residential home as a shelter and we live in fear that we will be ordered to get rid of the dogs from our house. Many of the dogs we have here, have been shot and so badly abused that some will be with us for the rest of their days.
Diane, you and your family do so much for these poor animals against all odds.
Since I started to follow the story of Sweet Mima, who had her 4 legs chopped off, I have become more & more aware of the appalling conditions suffered by the animals we call pets, but many Bulgarians treat like vermin.
They stone them, shoot them, mutilate them – and these wretched creatures have done NOTHING to warrant being treated this way.
I have read that your family are also treated badly by the local people for the very reason that you seek to help the animals they abuse.
To be charitable it must be down to ignorance, fear, lack of education…..
otherwise why would a whole nation gain pleasure from abusing those who cannot speak up for themselves??? You are fighting an uphill battle, but stick with it, because you ARE making a difference.
Take care of yourself & your family xx
You’re a star Diane and have my vote.
Rudozem Street Dog Rescue (RSDR) is a foundation run by an English family that rescues street dogs and cats from the streets and tries to find them loving homes. Please view our Video Documentary on RSDR at this link: http://www.streetdogrescue.com/apps/videos/videos/show/10044870-rudozem-street-dog-rescue-english-
Diane & Tony Rowles currently run RSDR from their own family home and have up to 55 dogs and 6 cats in their house and backyard. There are literally hundreds and thousands of dogs in the streets in Bulgaria. Many of these dogs are abused, spat on, shot, kicked, beaten, or worse and in the cold winter months a lot of these dogs die. There is no animal welfare in Bulgaria and a lot of attitudes by local people are to treat them like vermin. The majority of these dogs are not dangerous and it is heartbreaking to see one of them go up to someone only to have someone throw a stone at them. Many of them are puppies born in the streets and end up dying in the cold winter months. The so-called Dog Isolators (supposed shelteres) in Bulgaria are nothing but a place of torture where they round up dogs, and leave them starving, or kick them or beat them to death. RSDR are trying to raise money to get their own shelter to help many more hundreds of dogs (to stop them going to the Isolators) and to try and save as many from dying in the cold winter months, aswell as start a spay and neuter programme to reduce the population. RSDR have also had complaints from locals about the noise the dogs make from their residential house, which is another reason why we are so desperate to get this shelter.
RSDR have only 1-2 months to raise 38,000 euros for a plot of land for a dog shelter, before the owner will sell to someone else. They have been searching many plots of land and a lot of these places have had no road access, no electricity and no water and they were still asking for anything between 25,000 to 45,000 euros and that was just for the land only!! The land we have found has a building already on it!! and the owner is only asking for 38,000 which is a bargain price!!. We can’t miss this opportunity. We need a place to work from. The current vet does not know how to spay bitches, and we need a shelter with a surgery so we can start our spay and neuter scheme as we’ve had volunteer vets offer to help but they need a place to work from.
please everyone vote for us, or please help by donating also to our website. We need all the help we can get. The cold winter months are coming up again, and we want to try and save as many dogs as we can. RSDR have currently now have had 94 dogs adopted in other countries and our next adoption trip is only next week. Please help this amazing family with their life saving work!!!
http://www.streetdogrescue.com
R.S.D.R Gets my vote, these angels are dedicated to help these animals and they are heroes in my eyes. xox
VOTE FOR RSDR
RSDR are who I call Earths Angels for the Animals – Ive voted for them
Good luck to Rodezem…………these people are doing vital work in helping the poor animals and trying to change attititudes towards animals in Bulgaria. Lindy (SOS for Serbian Animals)
The animals of Kos need help soon.
So many animals in need right now. Well done to everyone out there trying to help them,
Paula
Je soutiens RSDR une cause extraordinaire, des gens merveilleux, ils ont besoin de nous ! Please vote for RSDR merci
Please vote for animal rescue Kos….if you go into our websitewww.animalrescuekos.co.uk you will seethe work we are doing with the animals…..
Please vote for the rsdr,amazing work carried out by amazing people! Working for animals who are treated sooooooooooooooooooooo badly!
c’mon guys! we caught up they were 200 odd votes in front, we are only 50 behind now! thanks for your support everyone!
ANIMAL RESCUE KOS NEEDS YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT!
keep the votes coming we are all voting for the best animalrescuese in greece we are now first but we need all your surpport
C’mon PEOPLE!! Vote Rudozem Street Dog Rescue – a husband and wife + their kids run this amazing charity out of their own home in Bulgaria, rescuing many mistreated, abused and homeless Bulgarian dogs and cats. We need every penny so that we could buy a propper shelter BEFORE WINTER to rescue many more animals, which otherwise will be likely to freeze to death during the cold Bulgarian winter months. PLEASE VOTE RSDR !!!
Please all vote for RSDR , they are in desperate need of money to build a shelter and save even more dogs and cats then they already have . they are just one family struggling to feed a town full of starving animals. They take them to their own home and have used all their own money up over the past few years , yet they never complain, they never say ”we don’t have any fosters” they jsut get on with the job at hand ..going out 2-3 times a day no matter what the weather to feed all the cats and dogs , and to bring home any that need urgent help due to being shot etc.
They don’t even have use of a car right now and have been walking to the town centre carrying heavy bags of dog and cat food …and still doing this 2-3 times a day . They go into the forest to feed the strays ( risking life and limb on steep slopes , and the posiblity of being attacked by wolves and bears) they go to the land fill and everywhere they go they try and build little huts for the dogs to shelter in and leave food for them in their.How many others are doing all this with only 4 people ?..RSDR you have my vote and my utmost respect. VOTE RSDR ..THEY REALLY NEED THIS .
Hi i was just wondering if there is anyway you can check, i was told by a friend of mine of facebook that people have been voting for there chosen charity repeatedly by deleting there cookies and history on there pc ( allowing them then to make there chosen charity get ahead in the votes unfairly ) I just think this is very unfair if the real deserving charity does not win and was wondering if there was any way of you checking that only 1 vote per person is actually counted rather than the repeated votes.
Thanks.
Hi Samantha, thanks for pointing this out – yes, unfortunately some people have voted more than once so we’re in the process of discounting multiple votes to make it absolutely fair for everyone.
We’ve also refined the voting process so that deleting cookies doesn’t allow another entry so we shouldn’t get this problem again.
Thanks again for letting us know,
Becky
Hi all just to let you know you may see a slight drop in the number of votes you have – this is because we’ve removed any duplicate votes to ensure the voting is absolutely fair.
Thanks
Phil – easyfundraising
Thanks Phil and Becky for that
KOS HAS DISPEAKABLE LIVING (AND DYING!) CONDITIONS FOR THE STRAY ANIMALS!
WE CAN ALL MAKE A CHANGE ALLTOGETHER! NOT JUST BY THIS CAUSE! BY REAL, ACTIVISM!
YES WE CAN HELP! THE STRAYS NEEDS US!
Kos strays are really in badly need of a generous help. They are struggling for survival.
The animals of Kos need our help. The people there they don’t respect their life.
Please help them. I saw the situation this summer when I was working in Kos.
please vote for Animal Rescue Kos, They really need our support
Thanks
RSDR gets my vote, these guys do a fantastic job, one family working against all the odds in a country that does not give any protection to their animals. Diane and Tony Rowles need all the help they can get. Good Luck. These guys need our help so vote for RSDR, please support them.
Rudozem Street Dog Rescue (RSDR) have my vote, the work they found themselves doing is inspiring and this would go a long long way in helping with their goal of providing a better shelter for these brutalised animals who are only looking for love, affection and a safe forever home.
Helping animals is our all duty!
RSDR desperately needs funds to continue their work in saving these dogs. They are doing everything they can possible to continue. Please help support Diane and Tony Rowles in their good work.
When thinking of how bad things are in Bulgaria , where RSDR is ,you only have to remember MIMA the dog who had all four legs hacked off in a brutal act of revenge and no-one was or will ever be prosecuted for this disgusting act, this is something RSDR is trying to change , they are not only passionate about saving as many animals as possible , but in educating the bulgarians on how to treat and respect all life .
Guys, we really need those money in KOS island. Things in Greece are not the same as the rest in Europe. We need those money for our stray animals. So please vote for KOS!
Just to let you all know, you may see a slight drop in the number of votes you have – this is because we’ve removed any duplicate votes to ensure the voting is absolutely fair.
Thanks
Becky – easyfundraising
good luck
To administrators:
Can you please tell me why some votes being erased?
This morning votes was :
Animal Rescue Kos (49%, 1,226 Votes)
Rudozem Street Dog Rescue (41%, 1,027 Votes)
and now they are:
Animal Rescue Kos (48%, 1,085 Votes)
Rudozem Street Dog Rescue (41%, 931 Votes)
Regards,
Stavridis Alexandros, Greece
Hi, thanks for your comments. I did add a comment earlier to explain this but perhaps you haven’t seen it – unfortunately some people have voted more than once so we’ve discounted multiple votes to make it absolutely fair for everyone. As mentioned in the original post, voting is limited to one per person. We’ve now refined the voting process to ensure this can’t happen again.
I’ve contacted the adminstrators of Animal Rescue Kos and Rudozem Street Dog Rescue to explain the situation too.
Hope this explains everything.
Becky – easyfundraising
Thank you for your quick reply and yes, this explains everything.
Have a nice evening.
What can I write – except unfortunately this is a world wide problem – Pat
I hope that this help poor animals
It is amazing what a difference Animal Rescue Kos already makes for the animals on the island! They would be able to do so much more, but they need all the help they can get. These are really hardworking people for the benefit of the animals without thinking about themselves.
As I am living on Kos for 30 years now, I know the situation of the animals here very well and believe me, you prefer not to know the details, but the situation is very bad.
Besides the good work for the animals, they even go further by visiting schools to explain to the children how and why to respect animals.
Animal Rescue Kos is worth voting for!!!!!
I would vote for them over and over again if I could!
Hope you win this money. You are very deserving in what you do.
I wish you good luck in your ideas for dogf houses
The cats in Kos and the other Greek Islands need as much help as possible. A very worthy cause.
Good luck…this is a wonderful contribution to the animal world,
I see first hand what the cats and dogs get treated like bt SOME the dogs starved and they are so lovely and gentle even with misstreatment brought to our own homes to try to bring back to healthy animals.Yes it is great to see this but please help us to help them on animalrescuekos
please help all the poor animals think of them when youre sitting in front of your fireplace, the cats and dogs and there babies are freezing to death ,think of them when youre having a nice meal, they have nothign to eat, when somebody is friendly to you, they will be shot and beadly beaten by people over there, help to raise the money for a shelter they do so deserve it, and thank god there are people like diane and anthony to make this dream come through
sos…help the animals
RSDR deserves to win as they realy are the best in taking care
good luck
I think each of these NGO deserves the award, but I voted for RSDR as I am at the end most aware of their activity and it is related to our problems here in Bulgaria. So, these are people who really try to maken the difference here and they deserve our support. Thank you, guys for all that you do! Keep going on!
I vote for animal rescue for animals can’t help themselves.
It is a must
Thanks
Animal Rescue Kos
we would like to vote for A.R.K. Because of their difficult job agaist cruelty,abusment of nature and animals in Greece,in an island named KOS …
Just help the animals of the Greek island Kos. Thank you.
It is difficult to decide which cause is with higher priority… They all deserve attention and help!!
today on kos dogs and cat are being put out on the roads and in the mountains to look after them self with no food or drink it is only animalrescue kos who care for them so please vote for animalrescuekos
Brian, it’s the same in bulgaria..and when people want to get rid of their dogs they stone them, throw them from moving cars , run them over and/or shoot them.Diane and Tony have just taken in another two starving dogs ,one who is older and has also been shot. Shooting dogs in Bulgaria is common practice…and a way that people amuse themsleves, which is why i will always support RSDR.
Please Vote for animal rescue Kos. Help the beautifull persons, dedicating their lives to take care of the animals in this small greek island
I am thinking that all animals all over the world need help…..But as a greek person I vote for Animal Rescue Kos because I have seen and unfortunately in the age of 19 I have lived so many bad things for animals…..They are being shot,hanged,beaten to death,abbused but the worst of all is that so many people here in Greece gives them food which has poison or even little pieces of glass to kill them…….Can you imagine something like that??????It is so bad!!!!!!!!People who work at Animal Rescue Kos need so much courage to make it through the day and of course to save animals because many of those people who make animals suffer with so many many ways attack them….It is so difficult!!!!!!! I am sure that alla of you have seen to internet what is going on here in Greece!!!!!!!!It is not a lie,you have seen it with your own eyes!!!!!!!!!!!Support Animal Rescue Kos!!!!!Please…
I would like to thank you for your very kind words we are only doing what WE feel we have to as we all must answer to our own god in time.All we want is a safer happier life for the animals
Although I am an animal lover, and hate cruelty or neglect, my passion is the protection of our most precious resourse, (our children) they hold the secret of a better future, if we educate them right, the future of our planet might improve, including the prevention of animal cruelty
Keith
I love animals
I have been in support of RSDR as well as BSAPP over in Bulgaria. It’s tragic what the dog and cats of Bulgaria face on the streets every day. RSDR is doing something about this and they are making a difference in the lives of these animals that would never know love or kindness if not for Diane and her wonderful organization. Please vote, show support so that they may save more lives.
Please vote to rescue the poor animals in Bulgaria !!!!
RSDR gets my vote ! Good Luck !!!!
This is a very noble cause for which we can only be very grateful to people who have shoulder with that difficult task to save our friends dogs homeless … TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST ANIMALS … they are our future … My vote is for RSDR BECAUSE THERE REALLY NEED HELP
GOOD LUCK YOU ALL. YOU ARE ALL ANGELS OF MERCY!!!!! MUCH LOVE AND MANY BLESSINGS CHER <3 X <3 X <3
Good Luck …Your doing a Brilliant Job xx
I vote for Rudozem, if I was there I’d be doing the same thing.
sos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope u get it x
Please sos Rudosem!
Please, vote for Rudozem Street Dogs Rescue. They need a shelter, it is desperate situation. I know the region. I know very well what obstacles Rowles’ are braving to save lives. And they really do help the forsaken animals in Bulgaria. Please, vote for them.
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee….SOS!
SOS Help the animals
I love the ANIMALS!!!GOOD LUCK YOU WILL WIN!!!
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Let’s help the animals!
The very best of luck, you deserve to win. I will forward to my friends and ask them to vote asap.
RSDR are such a lovely people im proud of them, there job, all they are making for the dogs and they really need your help…. vote for RSDR you’re not gonna make a mistake…and follow them on facebook!!!
I vote for Rudozem Dog Rescue.
please stop voting now, its is quarterr past midnight in the UK and quarter past 2 in greece! thank to everyone who voted for us at the end! xxxxx
Congratulations to ANIMAL RESCUE KOS.
We wish you every luck for the future and please save as many strays as you can.
The little ones from the Island of Kos, really needs you.
Regards from all of us in Athens and Sheffield! xxx
i voted for “Rudozem street dog rescue ” i really believed in this rescue team they gave 100% TENDER LOVING CARE for all the animals that they saved from homeless/abandoned,,
they dont put animals to sleep unlike other rescues and shelters that doing that kind of killing after no one will adopt them they will put them in a sleep so sad .
PLEASE VOTE WISELY because it will benefits the poorly/abandoned/cruel animals . thanks!
GOOD LUCK Rudozem street dog rescue
Please vote for TARO Turkish Animal Rescue Organization. Save a life today! Help donate or go adopt! Spread awareness for the little souls in Turkey.
Please i vote for my association we want to feed Africa we have the best fatile land for rice growing in the Gambia