"CHARLIE" makes a difference

Meet Charlie, a student from Eau Galle High School in Melbourne Florida.  One day I received an email from Charlie, who I had never met.  She is a great lover of animals.  Her class was taking on projects to help organizations and she had chosen the Sanctuary.  Charlie spent a lot of her free time gathering items and donations for the Sanctuary.  It was a great day when I finally got to meet her and her classmates.  They were afraid that I would not be happy with the donations.  That they were not enough.  But the truth is it was a great amount - and even if only one bag of food would have been donated  it would have been well worth my time to go and meet these students who care so much about animals. 

Charlie's class is an honors class at Eau Galle and to have been able to talk to these students I know now, and am sure, that each will contribute much to the future we will all share.  Charlie, a tiny little thing was very instrumental in collecting a truck load of food, beds, leashes, bowls, cat litter, gloves, medical supplies, wormers, heartworm and flea meds - blankets, etc.  One of the greatest things was a cat tree.  We had no cats but they must have known something we did not for the next week we received our first mama cat and six kittens.  What did we name the mama?  Well Charlie of course.  Because of Charlie's commitment to her project "Charlie" the cat came into a room fit for a queen with toys and special cat things we did not have.

There is no way we can thank these students enough.  Each one of them and their teacher who helps them get ready for the future are very special people to the Sanctuary and we look forward we hope to a visit from some of them.

Our love and the love of each animal they have helped is sent to them on a daily basis.  Charlie's project may have started other schools to do the same.  In that alone she has shown what a leader she is.

Below are pictures of Charlie, her class mates, and her teacher who took the time to not only gather all of the items they sent but allowed me into their lives and into their classroom.

We hope that each of them know that for whatever part they played in Charlie's project they played a huge part in the recovery of the animals here.  If these students are the hope for our future we can rest assured that our animals are safe.