Help save the animals at Oasi Leonardo

Hi everyone!

I'm Alessandra, and I live in Tuscany, Italy.

I used to work at a no-kill farm, Oasi Leonardo, which houses goats, sheep, cows, pigs and horses, as a stable person.

The farm ran out of funds last year, and I started looking after the animals for free as a favour a few months ago so they wouldn't have to sell them or send them to slaughter.

I worked every day since last August, never taking a day off so the animals could be tended to.

However, the farm's project has now been officially closed, the owner can't provide for them anymore and I need to find a new safe home for all the animals!

 

Due to severe personal problems the owner was absent for two and a half months, and I was left alone to pay for the sustainment of over 400 animals and had to physically look after them almost 24/7 because was the only one left here. 

I had to move up here out of the blue!

 

Regional services threatened to take them away and send them all to slaughter, but I managed to fight them off long enough to find a solution!

I quickly contacted the italian net of shelters to start a path to find a way to save the animals: they have accepted to help me find new homes for the animals, where they can keep living their lives to the natural end of their days!

The net of sanctuaries can't physically take the animals right now because they're too many and they're already over capacity, so we're trying to survive week by week for now, relying on donations and by selling some old farm tools. 

 

Any donation would be a great help: we have already sent over a hundred animals between goats and sheep to new safe homes for life (we're trying to organize weekly transports, followed by volunteers and by me to check on the wellbeing of the animals). 

 

Thanks to your help, I'm finding funds to go on week by week:

Expenses reach around 2000€ PER WEEK, because the 58 cows eat about 1100€ of hay every five or six days, and I'm only relying on donations and the very last of my money in my bank account. 
Transports are costly too, in addition to veterinary expenses to neuter all the males!

If I run out of funds, the path to bring them to safety will end!

 

Every week I gain is more time I get to work towards a happy ending for all of them!

I'LL UPDATE THE FUNDRAISING GOAL WEEK BY WEEK TO KEEP TRACK OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY ACTUALLY NEEDED, SO IF YOU SEE THE GOAL RISING THAT IS WHY!!

 

I update frequently on Twitter @ thegoblincity 

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!