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| Event: | Estonian Midsummer Night's Ball |
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Mustpeade Maja Palace, Tallinn, Estonia |
| Date: | Saturday 18th June 2005 |
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Estonia is a beautiful country with population of 1.4 million.
Its people are among the most educated in Europe and its stunning capital, Tallinn, is Europe's best-preserved medieval town.
Since the country was freed from Soviet occupation in 1991, it has built incredible new infrastructures, which have made it the most internet-connected country on Earth, and boasts the world's first e-government.
The Button Club is happy to invite you to join us at a Midsummer Night's Ball in aid of Bennu Charity.
Tallinn welcomes you with midnight sun, sandy beaches, great music and friendly people!
BENNU CHARITY
Estonia has a problem which is damaging its reputation throughout Europe, and is expected to impact the country's tourism and, ultimately, its economy;
Animal cruelty. Dogs and cats wander the streets, rejected by owners who grow tired of their pets, or who can't afford to feed them any more. Dogs often live outside in the snow and are kept only for security. When they grow old or useless, they are replaced.
They then face archaic government policy, which will have them caught and placed in a small box for fourteen days, before being inhumanely killed if no one comes to claim them. Whilst our joining the EU recently has brought a myriad of human welfare organisations to help the poor, animals have no voice and remain forgotten.
The Bennu Charity (reg. no 80136989) was established December 1, 2000 to bring to together people and organizations, who would like to help animals, to identify suffering and provide help. Every month hundreds of animals are thrown out onto the streets, in Tallinn and its suburbs. Nobody knows exactly how many stray animals are rejected each day in Estonia, but it’s on the rise.
The Estonian Animal Protection laws have an archaiccatch and kill policy, which is not dealing with cause itself. The policy allows the stray animals to be killed after 14 days from reaching the shelter if someone doesn't claim them within that time.
Already rejected and thrown onto the streets, it is unlikely that their owners will want them back. The government’s policy deals with the result and fails to address the problem itself.
BENNU is using intelligence gathered from the successful policies in other countries to introduce common-sense solutions in Estonia. Our projects centre around three main areas: a) direct action to help animals in trouble today b) educating those causing cruelty to eradicate suffering, and c) modernising archaic government policies to help the animals of the future From the donations we started a first systematic TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release) project in Estonia.
The objective of the project is to neuter stray cats in the town of Parnu to reduce the population of stray cats by neutering female cats, and giving them a full medical check-up, to prevent strays from breading and significantly reduce disease.
By decreasing animal population by neutering females it is possible to minimize the number of unwanted births, this means improving the present situation when the town is filled with homeless, underfed kittens twice a year.
Unlike many charities we don't have large offices or staff wages. So every penny you provide goes directly into helping animals in distress. Please make a donation straight away, for as much as you afford. It will only take a few minutes.
All information at our website: www.bennu.net Thank you!
Mari-Liis Ivalo |
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