How You Can Help

It is not always about the money. Let us share with you just how valuable you are with no cash whatsoever. These words are courtesy of Lori Yonts, who runs Sunkissed Acres Rescue and Retirement in Summerville GA:

  • Take a day to email a few of the hundreds of equine suppliers and ask if they can send outdated items, returns, promos, gift packs, etc. to the rescue.
  • The donation of a day or two a year in which to sit down and write thank you letters and print them off for a rescue.
  • A day or two a year that you can give to go and organize or clean a feed room.
  • You can check out the internet and find the various groups and foundations who do donate to animal organizations. Take a rainy day to do this and then forward your information.
  • Hold a yard sale with proceeds to go to your favorite rescue. It need not be at the holidays. These horses eat year round so send a promissory note for one to be held next year and then announce it.
  • Hold a concession at a show you know you can work. Put out a donation can somewhere or a collection at work, any time of the year is good.
  • Have a candy dish at work and have people donate their change in exchange for the goodies, and then every few months send the funds collected.
  • Ask your local vet if you can put a donation can at their clinic and then print a flyer with it. What you can’t give, someone else might be able to. This can also be done at a local tack or feed store.
And from Jennifer Williams at Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society (Rosharon, TX): What is really needed now is to invest the time/energy/whatever to helping rescues grow and improve, and into educating the people who want to run one about what it really means and what it really involves.  This is our goal for Special Horses.

You are all worth a lot more than you realize. So, short of cash, no problem. Giving of yourself is the greatest gift, and seeing the returns from what some of these very simple ideas can bring, will absolutely amaze you.

 

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Special Horses, Inc.
Po Box 23279
St. Louis, MO 63156
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