Some great prizes to auction including:
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* A Private Trip for 4 people on King Boa Powerboat , design your own trip  duration 3 hours Value 550 euro
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* Papayas are donating the 4.5 litre Bottle of Cutty Sark Whiskey Value 200 euro, and also a dinner and bottle of SA wine to the value of 60 euro
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* Steve Fishing trip is donating a fishing trip for 4 people for 4 hours  value 120 euro
* Eileen his partner is donating a body treatment Massage to the value of 25euro
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* Snack Shack is donating a lunch to the vale of 20 euro
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* Signed Manchester United Man City Football Shirts
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* HandyMan Steve Johnson is also offering his services free for a day
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All of the proceeds go to buying more medicine for the cats and dogs as well as paying for the flights for the vets.

For more information, or to donate a prize, contact 9746831

The Worldwide Veterinary Service has very generously donated medical supplies to the value of £1500 for Sal Animal Rescue.
Worldwide Veterinary Service is a registered UK charity (no. 1100485) that supplies veterinary resources, in the form of volunteer teams, drugs, equipment and advice to help animal charities and non-profit organisations around the world.

However Sal Animal Rescue still urgently needs animal medicine, so if anyone due to visit Sal would like to be involved in the program, essentials such as bandages, flea and lice powder, eye and ear drops, Antiseptic etc would very much appreciated.

In addition, vital to the success of a programme is to find accommodation for between 1 & 2 weeks in July and August for the volunteers. The organisation will shortly be starting fund-raising and activities, if you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the programme, or have any suggestions please contact Jackie at jaqqi@hotmail.com

A new progamme released in Sal in February 2009 to protect street animals. Unfortunately, as is the case in many “Up & Coming” destinations such as Cape Verde, where the government focus is to improve standard of living for the indigenous population, funding is rarely available for animals.

Up until now, controlling the numbers of street dogs and cats has been achieved through Strychnine poisoning, a very cost effective but not particularly humane method, which sometimes claims domestic pets as victims as well. After several members of the community met together locally, a petition was raised and signed by many nationalities, including Cape Verdeans, and taken to the Mayor and Minister of the Environment in Sal in order to introduce some more humane animal control methods.

The results of the meeting are the local government intends to action the following:

* To provide funding for a responsible programme of neutering
* To ban the use of poison for animal population control, including heavy fines for anyone caught poisoning animals
* To provide land to construct an animal sanctuary

Sal Animal Rescue is currently sourcing approximately 4 vets and the medical equipment required for the neutering as well as standard pet products such as flea powder, eye/ear drops, anti-biotics etc.

If you are interested in the programme, or are visiting Sal and wish to donate medicines or financially to the project, contact Jackie Costello at jaqqi@hotmail.com