Tree Of Life For Animals

The Tree of Life for Animals has supporters all over world. Belle Moran, an Australian Veterinary Nurse, tells the story of her latest charity fundraising event.
“On a wintery August morning 70,000 people began the annual ‘Sydney City 2 Surf’. It’s a 14km run from Hyde Park to Bondi Beach.
It’s not an easy 14 kilometres due [...]

At the start of the year one of our volunteers, Clara held an appeal for people to donate dog collars and leads to our shelter. This would enable our staff and Project Raja Volunteers to take all our canine patients out for their much needed daily walks.
It was a great success and now we have [...]

Gill came to volunteer at our shelter and during her 4 weeks with us she enjoyed a sojourn to Jaipur, attended Serena’s leaving party where they were entertained by a local musician, experienced the local cuisine, learned the art of scooter riding and of course had the obligatory hennaed hand treatment.

Gill and her favourite [...]

Inspired by her volunteer experience with us last November, Pauhla was determined to raise enough money for us to buy a cattle hoist which we needed to lift our more cumbersome patients.
Pauhla was so driven on her return to the UK she managed to fulfill her mission and raise the whole £500 needed to [...]

My Volunteer Experience
I volunteered with TOLFA from January to April 2008. I left my job and friends in the UK to gain experience of working with animals, and have a bit of an adventure, but I didn’t really know what to expect. I was looking forward to returning to India after my first visit [...]

Read about the experiences of our latest Project Raja Volunteer, Alba.
Such an experience! Starting my first day at TOLFA was a shock for me, as a vet I’ve never seen dogs with distemper, rabies, dogs extremely affected with mange or paralysed dogs living with a good quality of life, free and wondering about.
Without [...]

Erika Connor is an animal lover from Canada. She was one of our Project Raja volunteers and spent time at TOLFA from December 12th 2007 - February 20th, 2008.
Sitting here in the land of snow (a metre of it has fallen since my return), what do I remember of the 2½ months I spent at [...]

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 [...]

I first met Rachel Wright, founder of TOLFA, in 2003, when we both enrolled on a diploma course in Essential Oil Therapy for Animals. About a year ago, Rachel made a comment in an email to me that she hadn’t realised just how many large animals they would see at the shelter, such as cattle [...]

The Winter in Ireland is long
The winter in Ireland is long, wet and grey, combine that with the need to go out and see some of the world and do something where one can use ones skills, and a stay at TOLFA seemed like a great idea.And it sure was, 3 weeks of sunshine, constant [...]