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Kim visiting the TOLFA shelter in 2006
Kim, our Managing Trustee for TOLFA UK, and her boyfriend Pete, have just signed up for the Hastings Half Marathon.
It will be their first half marathon and they are busy training hard to get ready in time for the 13 mile run on 16th March 2008. (more…)
A group of friends, trustees and supporters of TOLFA assembled in leafy Linden Gardens, London W2 to hear Jonathan Kydd, actor and gravelly voice of many well-known TV ads like L’Oreal Revitalift and Age Perfect, strike his gavel on the bread board to galvanise, so wittily, the eager bidders.
A selection of the artwork on offer at the Auction for TOLFA being carefully guarded
Heather is a veterinary student who volunteered with us in Autumn 2007. During her time with us, she wrote about a case that was particularly close to her heart. A monkey that had been hit by a vehicle came into the hospital. Thanks to the care and attention that was given, the monkey was released within 2 weeks. This is their story:
‘It’s inevitable when you work closely with animals that certain cases or characters will interest you more than others, and some steal your heart. It was a day like any other when the rescue vehicle pulled up at the hospital and unloaded a few dogs with infested bite wounds, a calf who had been lying down for four days and a baby monkey.
He was in a sorry state having been hit by a vehicle on what the locals call Snake Mountain, named after the twisting road that winds its way over the hill between Pushkar and Ajmer. There were no visible wounds but he was paralysed, confused and very depressed.
This monkey has been hit by a car and is suffering from brain damage (more…)
I’m not really sure how I ended up spending the month of November in India as I’m very happy on my home patch & I’ve never travelled further than northern Europe in my life. (and have never really wanted to either!)
As a qualified VN, I knew I was going to be in situations that were going to be difficult physically, emotionally and mentally, but I was actually much more nervous about being in rural India, in a culture and a language that I didn’t understand. And I don’t like hot food! Somehow, even after a nine hour flight and 8 or nine hours travelling in a car the following day I found life in Pushkar, and TOLFA very easy to slip into. India has its own time frame and once you’re into the daily routine, going with the flow just seemed to happen.
Mary, Brenda and Pauhla - our November 07 Project Raja Volunteers
