📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Brief description:
Association for the Protection of Homeless Animals 'ALGA' is a non-profit organization, created in 2006.
The Association is run solely by volunteers, who are dedicating their time and money to helping the
homeless animals of the country.
The work team consists of president of association, project assistant, a veterinarian, assisting workers and
volunteers. The number of dogs hosted by the association is up to 200, therefore the whole team is actively
engaged in the everyday activities in the shelter, that involves the physical work mostly.
ALGA's objectives:
- reducing the overpopulation of street animals by using human methods;
- protecting street animals from the cruel and inhuman treatment;- creating necessary conditions for a good coexistence between people and animals;
- education, by helping people to understand that there are other methods than killing dogs.
Our current activities are:
- introducing a moratorium on the killing of homeless animals;
- adoption of a municipal program with the purpose of reducing the overpopulation of homeless animals
through sterilization/spraying as the only acceptable mean for population control;
- withdrawal of all rights from the state enterprise "Autosalubritatea" (Garbage and sanitation), currently
entrusted with dealing with the homeless animals and transfer the matter under the control of the Veterinary
Department;
- creation of a centre for sterilization, vaccination and temporary hosting of homeless animals in Chisinau;
- creation of a group of staff, such as specialists for catching homeless animals, vets, personnel for the care
of animals etc;
- isolation of animals, representing a threat for the society (such as aggressive dogs or dogs with infectious
diseases);
- adoption and implementation on a national level of a law on the protection of animals, including strict rules
for animal possession;- creation of educational programmes for younger generation, to be thought in the schools of the country.
- running the ' Casa Katharina" - a private animal shelter/ rescue centre
💼 What the programme involves
The main task of volunteer is to work with homeless animals. This include the following activities:
- to play and to communicate with dogs(under supervision of the professional animal caretaker);
- to take them out for walks in the neighbor hood park area
- to work together with an experienced animal caretaker and get functional help;
- to clean and take care of the places where the animals stay;
- to help in creating the places where the animals stay (putting the attributes on the right places) and make
this places ready for the animals;
- to do fortification and does behavior observation on the animals;
- to feed the animals;
- to do small maintenance;
- to help veterinary doctor;
- to register animals and prepare reports on this.
Working hours: 4-6 hours/day
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation:
There are different types of accommodation:
* A bedroom in the host family;
* A bedroom in a flat out side of the project where 2-6 volunteers live together.
It depends on the availability of the places for the time of your application.
Food: Volunteers receive food allowance
📍 About the location
Association for the Protection of Homeless animals 'ALGA' is situated in the suburb area of the capital of
Moldova Chisinau. Chisinau is the main administrative, economic, scientific and cultural centre of
Moldova. The city has just over 700,000 inhabitants and the whole metropolitan area is roughly one million
inhabitants. In terms of number of inhabitants, Chisinau is the largest city of the country. Chisinau is
divided in five administrative sectors; Botanica, Buiucani, Center, Ciocana and Riscani. It is often referred
to as the greenest city in Europe due to the high proportion of well maintained green spaces.
The volunteer will be provided with accomodation in the city of Chisinau and will have to travel to the hosting
project every day by local bus.