MAR Y ARENA ANIMAL SHELTER TIJUANA

Hi there and thank you for looking at out fundraiser campaign.

We are a of very motivated an passionate of individuals trying to raise funds for the maintenance of the animal shelter “Mar y Arena” located in Tijuana Mexico.

A little background, the person that takes care of this shelter is Adelaida, best known as Adelita. She is a 52 years old lady who works as a part timer teacher at a school on Tijuana. She uses all of the money she makes teaching at the school to take care of the shelter “Casa Hogar Mar y Arena A.C.”. She was recently diagnosed with brain Cancer, but that doesn’t stop her from taking care of the animals she loves, which most of them are homeless. Adelita sold her house seven years ago (When she started to take care of this shelter) to be able to take handle the expenses. Needless to say she’s has to make many sacrifices all through her life in order to continue with her life’s purpose. For this and many reasons we want to help her continue to carry on the help these dogs and animals so desperately need.


At the moment, Adelita takes care of over 200 dogs and some cats that she finds on the street. She lives in a little room located in the corner of the shelter, to avoid having housing expenses and have more resources for her shelter. She is not receiving any help from the government or any organizations public nor private. The only help she gets is from everyday citizens who donate food every once in a while, students who volunteer to clean the kennels, and one person who volunteers with her every two or three days. Adelita uses all of her money to take care of feeding the animals, treat them when they get sick, give them shots, housing and everything a shelter animal could need.

 

Putting Adelita’s animals for adoption is not an easy task. She has to take to be active in public adoption events. Every time she goes to a public adoption event (which happens twice a month), she is lucky if she gives away 2-5 animals for adoption with no fee. We have to keep in mind that she has to pay for all the expenses required to this events, like gas, parking, food, and anything that could be needed. Inviting people to her shelter hasn’t helped with adoption either, she noticed that the population at her shelter was increasing instead of decreasing. The reason for this is that instead of having a lot of people adopting animals, she started finding a lot of abandoned dogs in her front gate, so she had to stop giving the shelter’s address to people.
 

We are trying to help Adelita with a couple of areas around the shelter. One is the patio where we will put gravel as an area for the animals to pee and poop (225 m2), the other we will adorn with cobble to make it more presentable (225 m2.

In this same area there are drainage ducks that get overflown in the raining season, this causes the areas where the dogs rooms are to get flooded. We will raise the drainage and create a path for the water to flow to other areas and not affect the dog rooms.

Will waterproof the roofs of the bathrooms and other wooden areas, vanish the wood and add maintenance to the bathrooms.


We have a very small time frame to work with (2 weeks) for we would like to finish the patio area before the summer starts since the area gets plagued with ticks and fleas due to the dirt. The whole project is estimated to be $4000 USD. We are seeking your help to give these animals and Adelita the proper help they rightfully deserve. Anything helps, we will be posting photos of the progress.