World Animal Day 2011
CATCA events for the World Animal Day 2011
Ericka Ceballos is the Ambassador in Canada this year and we will hold an event in September 18th as World Animal Day in Vancouver, and three other events will be held in New Westminster and Surrey BC , Canada as part of the WAD celebration this year.
Highlights from CATCA WAD
We present the highlights for this wonderful day immediately below after which follows the information for the preparation and organization of the event.
CATCA WAD Bowling Fundraiser Event
We had lots of fun in this event in September 18th at the Bowling Centre Xcalibur in Surrey. As usual CATCA had an informative table. The guests enjoyed a vegan hamburguer with fries or salad and a drink, while playing two games of bowling.
CATCA WAD Animal Awareness Drawing/Message Contest
The teachers organized their elementary school students from grades 4-5 (and some few children did this on their own from 2-6 grade). This was a contest for children of British Columbia.
I am extremely grateful to the teachers that took up in our educative animal project for the WAD, because there is an ongoing teacher strike in BC.
Here are some few pictures of the drawings of the winners!
To see the finalist drawings, click here
CATCA WAD Animal Drawing/Message Exhibition Event
The teachers organized the drawing contest on the 4th of October. The exhibition was on the 30th. We had a long CATCA informative table, a table full of organic snacks (crackers, cereal, granola bars and raisins). We also had vegan sausages and deli slices of Yves, vegetals, organic hummus, baba ganush and spinach dips and tostadas and chips (all Blue Menu), with juices for the kids and their parents, for them to try some healthy and cruelty free food.
CATCA also had the prize table and a very cool animal crafts table, with educative coloring sheets (all with some of the different animal issues CATCA is dealing with), animal origami, animal stampers and Noah's Ark foam to make cards.
Each kid got a present kindly donated by IFAW and other supporters. There was also a best costume prize for the cutest animal.
The event was a success and we got about 120
people coming. The local media came to take pictures
of the event and here is the write-up in the
RoyalCity Record entitled:
Kids reach out to help the animals.
The kids were thrilled, the parents and their families too. The teachers were very happy.
Acknowledgements
This WAD event was sponsored by IFAW Canada.
Our thanks also goes to the other supporters of this event: Centennial Community Centre, Hain Celestial, Real Canadian Superstore, Xcalibur Bowling Centre, Karmavore Vegan Store, Mrs. Yvo Chin and to all our wonderful volunteers who drove us with all our stuff and came to help us set our tables: Mr. Yonas and Wife, Charlene, Owen, Kelly, Alexia, Jason, Sophia, Sam and Raya.
I would like to thank all our judges that participated and choose the winners of the CATCA WAD Animal Drawing/Message Contest. It was very difficult to choose among all those wonderful animal drawings and messages! Thank you so much to my dear Colleagues Prad, Andrzej and to Ranjana, Kyron and Sophia.
Event preparation and organization
We will have an educative table in downtown Vancouver and also we are calling some schools to launch a competition of children drawings with different subjects about animal welfare for the World Animal Day to create a wall of drawings to exhibit to the general public. We will also have a fundraiser event in a bowling center in the city of Surrey.
Update!
CATCA is still celebrating the World Animal Day 2011.
Our BC Children drawing and animal message contest exhibition and the delivery of the prices for the winners will be on Sunday 30th from 12-4 PM at the Centennial Community Centre in New Westminster (Next to Canada Games Pool on 6th Avenue).
The winners will receive their prices at 3 PM.
Also there will be a price for the kids wearing the cutest animal costume!
Refreshments and veg snacks will be served.
Donations for CATCA will be accepted.
This will be a public event and the media will be invited.
Dates to Be There!
Tuesday October 4th, 2011:
Drawing animals contest for 4th and 5th grade children, to encourage the children to explain and draw about the importance of respecting, saving and been compassionate to all the animals.
The place and date of the exhibition of the animal drawing contest is not available yet.
Sunday October 16th, 2011:
Informative table behind the VAG (Moved to the 23rd of October in New Westminster)
Sunday October 23, 2011:
Exhibition of all the children drawings at the Centennial Community Center, New Westminster BC Public event. Media will be invited. The hour hasn't been determined yet.
PS.-If you can't make it consider to send us a donation (go to www.catcahelpanimals.org for more info). Thanks!
My name is Ericka Ceballos from Campaigns Against the Cruelty to Animals (CATCA) in Canada .
CATCA was founded almost 23 years ago and we are an animal rights, animal welfare and animal conservation NGO.
For more information about who I am and what CATCA does, please check our website:www.catcahelpanimals.org
In the past 25 years CATCA has celebrated Animal Day (In Holland, Mexico and here in Canada ), organizing educational informative tables in busy streets for the whole day.
We are well known in UNEP circles for our animal conservation work: for the seals, whales, elephants, brown bears, exposing the internet trade of wild animal species, sharks, so on. In the animal welfare area we have been working for over 2 decades against the seal hunt in Canada and personally I financed three seal tours to Europe to lobby with all the EU member countries. Our massive international campaign and the international lobbying I did, played a major role in achieving the ban on the import trade of seal products at the EU, which was implemented in 2010. Thanks to that ban the seal hunt in Canada is finally dying.
Among all the campaigns that we have had in the past, we also have had a major project to sterilize cats and dogs in Yucatan, Mexico for people of low income in the 90's and personally, I was going to schools in Yucatan, Mexico for over 3 years for 3-5 hours a day and for free, to educate the young children from primary school to university students about animal welfare issues.
I have been involved in the anti bullfighting movement for 32 years and I was the first American person to participate in an anti bullfighting conference in Europe. I also have been involved against whaling and against the slaughter of dolphins for decades. As well I have been fighting for over 2 decades to end the African elephants slaughter for their ivory and currently I am working in exposing the internet trade of wild animals at the highest level, to create awareness of the problem to end it or at least reduce it; I am also involved in several other animal issues. I am always busy supporting my devoted animal colleagues to help end the abuse and cruelty to animals worldwide, which sometimes is overwhelming, because that is like two or three full time jobs (sometimes four!). Unfortunately there is too much animal cruelty all over, and if we do no join forces and support each other actions, we will never end it. We all can make a difference to improve the lives of our brothers and sisters: "the other animals".
I Co-Founded AMEDEA (Mexican Association for the Animal Rights) Mexico and the WCASC (Western Canada Anti Sealing Coalition), I am Director/Volunteer Coordinator of the CFNWIC (Coalition For No Whales In Captivity), and up to this year I represented CMEPS (Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society) and PTOP Salamandra of Poland at high level international conferences. We also represent the International Anti Fur Coalition here in Canada.
Last year I was honored by receiving an award of the AD-AV Society of BC (Anti Dissection and Anti Vivisection Society), as the Animal Campaigner of the year 2010.
Join us in this great annual worldwide event!
All the best,
Ericka Ceballos
World Animal Day Canadian Ambassador 2011
Founder and President
Campaigns Against the Cruelty to Animals
16021,617 Belmont ST
New Westminster BC V3M6W6
Canada
E-mail: ericka@catcahelpanimals.org
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