From Awareness to Action

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Awareness campaign

From Awareness to Action – project is a campaign by Rescueyhdistys Kulkurit ry / Rescue Association Hobo Dogs to improve the conditions of homeless animals in Romania by increasing awareness of animal care and the importance of sterilization to reduce the number of homeless dogs and abandoning, and to encourage all locals to sterilize their own animals.

Campaign targets

To share and offer high-quality and researched information about improving animal conditions from welfare point of view
To teach how to take care of an animal’s basic needs
To teach the importance of sterilization in reducing the number of homeless dogs and abandonment, sterilization benefits in animal welfare and to offer a low-threshold solution for animal sterilization.
Develop ways to convey information, especially to the part of the population that has not yet heard of sterilization

Action Plan

In the initial phase of the project, we will carry out a survey to research the knowledge level of the locals about animal welfare. We will create a brochure and other educational material related to animal welfare based on a survey results
Distribution of brochures about sterilization and animal welfare in the project’s area

We created a website in romanian where we tell about the project and where these educational materials are easily available. Check the website here.
Providing material on social media as a educational form
Participating in local events and visiting such events whenever possible

Development of sterilization operations in the project area further, based on project results
At the end of the project, we will conduct a survey to measure the effects of the project
At the end of the project, contemplating of the possibilities and content of the project’s continuation

Project area

The project’s target area has been chosen to be the surroundings of the association’s biggest cooperative partner shelter, One Rescue, the shelter of Cosoba. This means the few village communities closest to Cosoba, Comuna Joița in Giurgiu, comuna Brezoia, Slobozia Moară and Comuna Răcari in Dâmbovița. More than 11 000 inhabitants live in these village groups.

Association strives to reach the vast majority of this population during the campaign and deliver information to them in a planned and organized way, one area and one village at a time. The association’s two largest sterilization partners operate in the area; Association One Rescue together with the team of One Vet, and Paws Care Vet, who also help us in the implementation of the project together with volunteers and other operators. Rescueyhdistys Kulkurit have taken into account the area’s sterilization needs regarding the project’s target area when deciding on the 2025 year budget.

Our education project will last at least until the end of May 2025, and during that time we will evaluate the effects of the campaign and the possibilities for the continuation of the project.

Information About the Organizer

Rescueyhdistys Kulkurit ry / Rescue Association Hobo Dogs is a Finnish animal protection association that was founded in 2012 to help homeless dogs in Romania, to do long-term work for them and above all to ensure that one day there won’t be so many of them. Hobo Dog’s vision is that such associations would no longer be needed in the future, that all dogs would have a home and a good life.

From the beginning, we wanted to invest as much as possible in sustainable animal protection work, in comprehensively changing the situation of homeless dogs. We focus our activities especially on sterilization campaigns that started in 2013, and from the beginning of our operations until today, together with our donors, we have enabled the sterilization of more than 36,000 dogs and cats. All sterilisations are fully financed with donations from Finnish donors.

Cooperation Partners

Spay & neuter clinic days and campaign days are allways carried out with professional planning and care by both clinics.

Paws Care Vet

Paws Care Vet is veterinary clinic located at Bâldana, Dâmbovița. Clinic is founded at 2019 by Bianca Ungreanu. Cooperation with Rescueyhdistys Kulkurit ry started at 2020. Paws Care Vet team is very devoted especially in organising spay and neuter campaigns. Team is experienced organizing campaigns in changing enviroments.

One Vet

One Vet is Rescueyhdistys Kulkurit’s oldest veterinary cooperation partner, cooperation goes back to the start of Kulkurit at 2012. One Vet was founded 20 years ago by dr. Adina & dr. Dragos Valdut. One Vet clinic is located in Bucharest, sector 6. Spacious clinic has 10 veterinarians and few other team members who always do their work with precise care. One Vet is also operating at Cosoba, Giurgiu in Association One Rescue’s shelter premises that also has a separate clinic space.

Participation to the project

We are currently looking for cooperation opportunities with local associations, companies and authorities as well as looking for volunteers to help, e.g. for distribution of brochures and participating/organizing events.

Ways to help

Participating in handing out brochures and telling locals about the project
Assisting in the implementation of the project survey
Informing others about the campaign, for example on social media, or allowing posters or announcements in the property wall or gate
Organizing events or assisting with events
Facilitating school visits or helping to organize them
Assisting in media visibility, for example arranging interviews
Assisting in media visibility, or help to receive cooperation proposals etc
Assisting in the transportation of owned animals to transport them to the clinic to be sterilized and transporting them back
Providing space for the sterilization campaign day or educational events (heated and lit building)
Assisting or participating on cooperation between authorities

Contact us

The project will be followed closely on our website and social media channels and we will be happy to answer questions about the project at taru.partanen@kulkurit.fi