Welcome!

For several years ActieZwerfhonden (= StrayDogsCampaign) has been working hard to draw attention to the stray and shelter dogs in Turkey. Thanks to your support and the help of a small yet enthusiastic team of volunteers, the foundation has been able to make a diffrence for the dogs, but there are still major problems.

StrayDogsCampaign tries to help the dogs in their own habitat, and does not mediate in re-homing of foreign dogs in the Netherlands.

The foundation helps finance and organize spay and neuter programs and educational campaigns.

It tries to connect to the local population to change the way people feel about stray animals and animals in general.

Also, a local dog shelter in Istanbul is supported with money and goods.

If it’s within the realm of possibility, the foundation will help out with emergency care, such as medical supplies.

StraydogsCampaing is glad to have achieved the following:

At the end of 2009, the forest shelter was in danger of having to close its doors. StrayDogsCampaign contacted the Turkish consulate in The Hague and the Department of Forrestry in Ankara. The result being that the responsible politician then suggested changing the law. The new law makes it mandatory for local departments to lend out forest grounds so that care and shelter for stray dogs can be realized there.

The foundation has financed the production of an educational film about the stray dog issue. This film has been shown on Turkish television several times and is also used in the education project of SHKD.

The printing 0f 2.000 booklets to go with the education project, financed by StrayDogsCampaign.

200 hungry dogs get fed in the forest shelter by finances generated by the foundation and through the Friends Project (overseas adoption) another 50 dogs are fed and they receive medical care.

In 2009 the foundation organized and financed its first spay and neuter campaign in the mountain village of Sutculer.

A lot of stray dogs nowadays have been spayed or neutered or they have received medical care because of the work done by StrayDogsCampaign.

The foundation is proud of the following:

Mrs. Ria Bremer has such faith in the foundation that she has connected her name to StrayDogsCampaign for a certain amount of time.

There is a strong connection to several other organizations who address the stray dog problem abroad.

Thanks to the great cooperation of Corendon (air line) to the cause, hundreds of kilos of dog food and goods find their way to the dogs in Instanbul regularly.

Several animal and wildlife magazines, among which ‘Hart voor Dieren’ and ‘WEET!’, draw attention to the work of StrayDogsCampaign on a regular basis.

E-magazines and websites about animals place articles about StrayDogsCampaign more and more.

Last but not least: The foundation has a solid and faithful group of patrons, among which you will find former board members that still feel very connected to StrayDogsCampaign and wish to support the volunteers and sponsors of the foundation.

On this website you can read more about the stray dogs issue, the situation in the Turkish shelters and you can learn more about the projects supported by the foundation. You can navigate through the menu or find your way by clicking on the bold printed links.

With the detailed website, StrayDogsCampaign tries to draw attention to the situation of the dogs in Turkey and at the same time it aims to achieve a change in mentality, which is a necessary part in the solution of the issue on stray dogs, through the one and only right way: Neuter and Release. You can find more information about this method and why StrayDogsCampaign works this way on the website as well.

You can decide to support a little friend by adopting a dog overseas through StrayDogsCampaign. With this adoption procedure you will help the dogs in the shelter. You can also subscribe as a friend of the Sutculer shelter or simply become a friend of the StrayDogsCampaign.

You can decide for yourself which one of our projects you want to support.

You can also support StrayDogsCampaign by ordering one or more of our products; the benefits will be used directly to aid the dogs.

If you have any other ideas that could support StrayDogsCampaign and the dogs, please don’t hesitate to contact us. All support is welcome!

Please help us help the dogs!!

On behalf of the StrayDogsCampaign and the dogs:

Thank you very much!!