Your Donation Dollars at Work in Panama

Day 171 Wednesday (Miercoles) - Playa Coronado

We live in a society here in Panama where many folks pull together to do many things to help. One thing that takes place is a thing called Spay the Strays. This volunteer group, only through donations, works with local vets to spay the dogs and cats in and around Panama to keep the population under control.

What a great thing these folks are doing. Here is an excerpt from the article on www.playacommunity.com and I wanted to make sure it got more legs.

This past weekend in San Jose, the Spay the Strays Group worked in conjunction with Spay Panama for our annual Blitz. It ran from about 4:30pm on Saturday to 8:00 and then on Sunday from 7:30am until 5:00pm. In those 13 hours we operated on 307 dogs and cats. Although we received $830 in donations (average $2.70 per animal) from pet owners, our total bill is $7,142.00. A huge undertaking like this could not have been paid for without the sponsor of the donor match last year as well as all of our valued supporters who contributed so generously!

To handle this Blitz, Spay Panama brought 25 persons from the City who slept in sleeping bags on site. Our own 34 volunteers supplemented them in three long, hot, dirty shifts proving that it really does take a village! We owe all of them a debt of gratitude.