With Compassion & Soul

Vegan Festival Nov 15th, 2009

The Annual Vegan Festival is being held again for the 3rd year in a row at Glenelg Primary School. If you like Animals, love good food, dig cool music and wanted to do some early compassionate christmas shopping then this is the place to go. It always a huge day with over 60 stalls and yummy Vegan Food. 

http://www.veganfestival.info/ 

Stall at Seaford Shopping Centre 2009

This Christmas season we will again be holding merchandise stalls at Seaford Shopping Centre. They loved what we did last year and loved our merchandise so much that this year they have offered us a site double the size free of charge!!! They are fabulous supporters of the community.        This years dates are ;

Dec 12th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd & 23rd - so far we have volunteers to fill 20 of the time slots but we are still looking for another 6 people to fill the remaining 6 timeslots. If you think you could help please email me at aardvark@senet.com.au

Nov 29th, Dec 6,7,22,23, 2008 - Stall at Seaford Shopping Centre

On the above dates we had a stall at the local shopping centre. We raised awareness and the merchandise sales raised nearly $3,000.  It was truly succesful and I want to thank the profusely 10 people who volunteered to operate these stalls.

Vegan Festival Nov 16th, 2008

The Annual Vegan Festival was held at Glenelg Primary School today . If you like Animals, love good food, dig cool music and wanted to do some early compassionate christmas shopping then you were at the right place! It was a huge day with over 60 stall and 2000 people comg thru the gates. The weather was perfect and our stall raised some much need funds for the orgnaisations we support. Why not come along next year.

A big THANK YOU to the stall volunteers on the day Amanda, Sharon & Wendy.

http://www.veganfestival.info/ 

Nov 2nd, 2008

Today we launched the website by sending an email to all who are on our mailing list. We had 128 people join our site which was fabulous and it continues to grow. If you would like to join the site send us an email to aardvark@senet.com.au withoyur name and email address and we will send you an invite via the site which can automatically sign you up when you reply.

Oct 2008

I had the great pleasure and honor this month of meeting the wonderful Jane Goodall http://www.janegoodall.org/ Jane is responsible for us knowing everything we do today about Chimpanzees. She has spent many years studying them in their own habitat and spends all her waking hours working towards conservation and the environment. I attended a private luncheon with her at Monarto Open Plains Zoo in SA. She spoke on what she was doing now and encouraged us all to get involved in some way no matter how small. She was so humble and still. I gave her one of our Handcrafted Sterling Silver Mother Orangutan and Baby pendants and she LOVED it and has since been seen on TV wearing it with pride. Click here to see the pendant http://www.withcompassion.com.au/apps/webstore/products/show/37352

Jane Goodall in the middle of giving a Chimps Welcome Call

March 2008

This month we created and had manufactured a whole lot of merchandise which is all available now online via our webstore. You can pay online through paypal as well.

100% of the sales go directly to the organisations that we support. click here for a quick link to the webstore  http://www.withcompassion.com.au/apps/webstore/

Dec 2007

Old Furs and what to do with them??

EVER WONDERED WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THAT OLD FUR COAT GRANDMA LEFT YOU??

Animal Liberation SA is collecting old furs for creating pouches and surrogate items for orphaned young that would naturally grow up in a fur lined pouch. If you know of anyone that has fur items please give them to Animal Lib SA (Bowden Brompton Community Centre - 19 Green St, Brompton - 83408878. they will pass them onto the organisations like Fauna Rescue to aid them in their valuable work.

Nov, 2007

It must be stall month as we also held our annual Early Compassionate Gift Sale at The Clarence Park Community Centre. This was a very successful day and we raised some much needed funds for the animals. Thanks to Jodie, Llara, Cher, Deb & Wendy for helping to organise and staff the day.

Nov, 2007 - The Vegan Festival Stall 

This was a good day for us. Sharon kindly operated the stall and we raise a good amount of money. The Festival itself had about 3,000 people go through which was fab for such an unusually wintry day in Nov. Thanks Sharon.

29/4/06   - Marion Mutleys Day      

Today we had a produce stall at The Marion Mutleys Day at The Glandore Community Centre. We were invited to sell our produce and also to give a talk about With Compassion. This was our first talk and we did well (even if I do say so myself). thanks to Karen Messant from DOGS / Friends 4 Life who organised the day and invited us to attend.

6/5/06  - Meet The Cheetah Awareness Program - Monarto Zoo

Monarto Zoological Park is a one thousand hectare open-range sanctuary undertaking a major role nationally and internationally in breeding programs for rare and endangered species. Monarto Zoo offers a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with three of their cheetahs.

Two and a half years ago at just eight days of age, these Cheetah cubs had to be taken from their mother for hand-raising. She developed serious medical problems leaving no alternative but to hand raise the cubs. This was not an easy decision as the park's main aim is to keep the wild animals wild and not interfere. In this case they had no choice but to intervene. Michelle, the cheetah's keeper, has hand reared them from cub to now almost two and a half years of age. You can see the dedication, love and commitment she has for these animals. After a brief safety lecture, we are brought into the Cheetah enclosure. It is totally overwhelming and awe inspiring to be walking amongst these wild animals. Although they have been hand reared they are still wild cats and have the capability to injure, albeit unintentionally. We then get to the Cheetah platform where we get to stroke and touch the Cheetahs whilst listening to information about the role of The Monarto Zoos Cheetah program and it's benefits to cheetahs in the wild. This one hour experience gives the visitors the unique opportunity to interact with these rare and extraordinary animals as they go through a training session.

The Park supports Cheetah conservation in Africa where persecution has reduced their numbers in the wild dramatically in recent years. There are now only 3,000 wild Cheetah left and the majority of the land where they live is unprotected. Monarto's Zoological Park's direct support of wild (in situ) Cheetah programs and it's role in captive breeding this endangered species play a major role in their survival.  For more information on this amazing experience or The Monarto Park Zoo please go to http://www.monartozp.com.au/ 

11/5, 2006 - Amazing People and Technology

Today I experienced a gamut of emotions within a few minutes.....utter distress, sadness, wonder and relief. Why?

I received an email from Helen who lives in Adelaide who also works with the animals and orphan children overseas, she told me someone earlier in the day who was in Sanur, Bali sms'd her to say they had come across a dog in a very bad condition, dying slowly and suffering. They had taken photos on their mobile and had sent them to Helen, so Helen (in Adelaide) immediately called 2 of our animal contacts in Bali to ask them to go look for the dog. One couldn't find the dog and the other did find her and immediately and  peacefully ended the dogs' suffering as that was the only option. I was distressed when I saw the condition of the dog, felt great sadness that no one had helped the dog before it had reached the state it was in, felt wonder at the network of people and technology that had just been part of that whole situation and then relief that someone had been able to alleviate the pain and suffering of that beautiful dog. Life is amazing.