Society for animals renovates
VORNA VALLEY - The Society for Animals in Distress is embarking on a facelift to develop and improve its veterinary and administrative facilities.
The organisation thanked its neighbours and the community for their patience during this time.
As the society has grown, it has spurred the need for enhanced small-animal and equine veterinary services, kennelling facilities, and an improved and cohesive
administration office. Efforts have been focused on the support and guarantee of funding requirements.
This project aims to provide the organisation, its professional veterinary team as well as the animal patients, with access to improved equipment and facilities, thereby refining and developing the overall productivity and capacity of the organisation.
The servicing of eight township communities north and north-east of Johannesburg with veterinary care, on-site operational work and fundraising initiatives, will be better supported.
The project, which began some eight years ago, is the result of the extensive generosity and efforts of the society’s donors, executive general manager Heather Müller and her executive committee members and staff.
At the breaking-of-ground ceremony Müller said, “A project such as this requires many hands and hearts to make it successful, and it cannot be expressed in words how dedicated, passionate, generous and remarkable our donors, both corporate and individual, have been to secure the future for our society. It is beyond humbling.”
The society’s executive chairperson, Nigel Forfar, said, “The society is most conscious of the need to preserve the highest integrity in our financial accountability to donors, the sustainable and wise use of our land and buildings, as well as upholding our credible reputation. This redevelopment of the property has become necessary due to an overburdened infrastructure and ageing equipment. The project planning will deliver adequate accommodation for our services and reflect the modesty of our welfare status.”
The society, established 55 years ago, is proud of the surety its founding members gave the organisation by purchasing an 11.7 acre property in Vorna Valley in the 1970s.
