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Aerial view of Ara de Noe

With so many dogs to care for each year at Arca de Noe the volunteers are
always making repairs to the shelter and some areas need major work done in
order to care for the dogs in a safe environment.

We have funded kennels, an on site clinic, heating, exercise and education
areas for them and one project that we have been wanting to do, that they
asked us about pre-lockdown, was to demolish one of the very old kennel
blocks and replace with some new kennels, with heating. This is a big job and
not easy when there are so many dogs at the shelter but it needs doing and
will allow more galgos to be housed in this area. Work has begun now so we
hope to bring you more news on this project in our next newsletter.

The education project has also been affected by the pandemic but slowly the
shelters are organising some visits and are hopeful that the summer schools
will be possible this year.

We receive requests for our help from new groups and shelters in Spain and
were pleased to hear from Asociacion DDEVIDA in Sevilla, earlier this year.
They are a small group and regard education as a priority. We were able to
send them some of our education material and give them the link to the site
and they are making plans now to use this at their workshops.

Also we heard from Patricia in Alicante. We first made contact back in
2009/10 when Patricia started fostering galgos at her home. She is an
English teacher and has recently started giving talks/
activities to schools in her area. We have sent her some
education material and she has also been using some
material from the website and had a great response.

We are glad to receive any feedback on the site and have
just made some changes which hopefully make it easier to
navigate and we now show the resources by age group which
is something that had been mentioned to us.

Please take a look -
https://education.greyhoundsinneed.co.uk

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