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Dear Kiia,
We apppreciate your help very much and would like to welcome you to visit us soon.
I would like to write you what is happening here:
We try hard to find support and help to build up the new private
shelter. At this moment wr are very disappointed about the architect
who promised to help us. When we found this architect, several months
before, and he told us that he will make the project for free, we were
so happy, because we could save some money for the permits and other
papers. So, after so many months, he started to not answer at the
phone, tell us that he is either sick or that he is not in the city. We
put so many hopes in him, trusted his words and now................
Yesterday, I called him and this morning I went to take from him the
papers I brought some time ago, and afterwards ( after you called me) I
went with my mother to another architect.
We discussed
with him but he told us about another problem . In order to be able to
start making the project, the architect needs another plan called PUD.
So, we met also a technician who said he will make us the plan PUD.
After he will do this, in about one week, we will have to obtain some
permits for it - that will take a lot of time and money- and when it
will be ready we will have to give it to the architect who will start
making the project.
Also, we will need a geo technical
study, before, that will cost also. For the PUD, the technician will
ask about 1200 RON ( about 400 Euros). These are only a small part of
the papers that need to be done, that cost a lot and ask a lot of time.
We hope to finish all this as soon as possible so that we
can find out an estimative cost. I dont know if in Finland is the same
procedure, but here is really awful.
Indeed, you are
right, in Romania the bureaucracy level is extremely high. there are
needed a lot of papers for everything, papers given by the authorities,
that take a lot of time, even months.
But, the most
important thing and the hardest of all is to raise the money for the
shelter because without money, even if we have the project and the
permits, we cant do anything.
We are more and more in
despair because of the local authorities who, with every occasion they
have, threaten us that we must leave the shelter every moment. Last
week, they sent someone to take measures to the land from the shelter
and around, because they must give it to people in order to build
houses. My mother tries to do her best to delay, to beg the technical
director of the city hall to let us stay in their shelter until we buid
our new shelter, but she don’t find much understanding.
And yes, you are right again, what is more important is to find animal
lovers, organizations who can support us in building the shelter. One
or two organizations are not enough to cover the entire cost which will
probably be huge, as they also have to help other organizations who
need support. For example, AFSPA - French Association for Pro Animals
Support - is a small association settled last year that has only two
persons that helped us morally a lot - sending faxes, emails,
newsletters etc etc, gave us advices, transmitted information about
what is happening in Romania, put us in contact with other animal
lovers etc etc. Being small, their support of 1400 Euros in 2005 was
welcomed but as you can imagine for a shelter with 350 dogs, with the
one from home and the one we feed on the streets, is far from being
enough.
For example, we need 5 tones of food every month
and only tone is about 700 Euros ( and this is the cheaper food made in
Romania). So, besides this we need medicines , to pay the salary of the
two workers, and other things for the shelter.
Here,
there is only me and my mother involved in this, no one else, so you
can imagine how hard it is. We think of the food needed for the dogs,
of medicines..............................building the shelter is a
dream for us, but we are forced to do something in order to save the
dogs that we have been taking care of for so many years.
Thank you for all you are doing for the animals we are taking care of,
Best wishes
Patricia
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