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Thursday 26 July 2018

Sgt. Pepper's Friends 3 Year Anniversary

ORANJESTAD — Sgt. Pep- to make an impact on the
per’s Friends is a non-profit lives of many animals on
animal rescue organization the island. For the future we
founded and located in hope to be able to contrib-
Aruba. Their dogs and cats ute to educating our local
are available for adoption community and create a
in the United States, Cana- much bigger impact for
da, Aruba, the Netherlands adult dogs as soon as our
and Sweden as of now. Sgt. Pepper’s Friends Home
Every country they add to is finished!
the list requires careful re-
search, but they hope open We hope you can join in
up to families in other coun- celebrating our three-year
tries in the future as well. anniversary by contributing
The organization loves our to our fundraiser. With even
beautiful island. However, a donation of $3 you are
the number of neglected, helping change the lives of
homeless, abandoned, animals and helping create
sick and hungry dogs and a better future. We have a
cats wandering the streets few big projects that will re-
is truly disturbing. Through ally make our new space
donations and the hard come together. We know
work of their volunteers and with your support we can
their adoptive families, Sgt. make it happen.
Pepper’s Friends are able
to rescue many animals in We currently have a cat
need. house but we don’t have a
space to host kittens when
Where it all began... waiting to find foster homes.
Three years ago, it all start- We have lots of visitors in-
ed when a beloved and cluding local children’s pro-
special dog passed away grams; a formal education
much too early. Honoring area would be so valuable
this special dog, Sgt. Pep- in educating the next gen-
per’s Friends foundation eration on how to care for
was born. From only a hand- animals. The main big goal
ful of people starting up of the house is to host adult
a new foundation, we’ve dogs where volunteers, visi-
grown into a well-known tors and tourist can come
organization with an amaz- exercise and socialize adult
ing group of (international) dogs. We hope you will
volunteers and team of consider helping our mis-
foster families, in only three sion and make a donation
years. We have the biggest to celebrate our three-year
social media following in anniversary. q
Aruba and have been able