Birthday wish, Blanket drive & SAS Calendar

For his 12th birthday, Andre decided to follow the lead of a young friend who had asked for donations to his favorite charity (WISH, a new school project for migrant children with disabilities) in lieu of presents.  Andre is a big fan of JAR; he adopted a JAR dog several years ago, rescues and fosters regularly, sells dog biscuits made by SAS’ Animal Rescue club around his compound to raise money for JAR, and suggested our club as recipient when his class raised charity money last year. So JAR was a natural choice when it came to his birthday donations. Andre collected 3000 kuai for us with his birthday idea!

BLANKET DRIVE:
When Shanghai American School Pudong Campus’ Animal Rescue Club heard about JAR’s plea for blankets for the Sichuan rescue dogs, they decided a used blanket drive was only the beginning.  At the school’s four-day Santa’s Workshop, during which time they sold dog and cat toys donated by Doggy House, they also set up a huge card saying “From our Animals to Yours” — for a donation of just 10 kuai, students could purchase a small blanket in the name of their pet to be donated to the Sichuan ____ (forget their name!).  Students donating got to sign the card and as an extra bonus they received a pet rock made by the local Girl Guide troop!  Enough money was raised to purchase 100 blankets (thanks to Marney Rosen’s parents for buying and delivering these blankets from Canada!), with the left-over money going to pay for shipment of the blankets to Sichuan.

With the Sichuan founder

SECOND ANNUAL PETS OF SAS CALENDAR
For the second year in a row, Shanghai American School Pudong Campus’ Animal Rescue Club put together their PETS of SAS Calendar.  Using pet photos submitted by the school community, members of the club voted on the top photos for ‘prime’ spots on the main pages, with ALL submissions included somewhere in the calendar.  This year, the club raised over 18,000 kuai for JAR!  Note that Animal Rescue recommends this project to other schools or organizations as a great and community-bonding fundraiser — but don’t be fooled that it is easy!  It took about 60 volunteer hours to build the calendar (they use a program called inDesign, which requires building all templates from scratch — more work but incredibly professional results), then 30 more to sell it during their Winter Bazaar and Santa’s Workshop — a great gift just in time for the holidays!