We know it has been quiet here lately and we feel that we owe it to you, our Superstar fans, to explain why that is.
First of all, to take away any doubts you may have: Canine Life Support isn’t going anywhere. We’ve been here, we’re here now and we will be here in the future. It’s just that an awful lot has been going on lately, mostly on a personal level.
Canine Life Support is run by three dedicated volunteers in The Netherlands and I am one of them. Sometimes, when I am about to head back to Sri Lanka, people ask me “Oh, are you going to the doggies again?” Usually I just smile. I know they do not have the slightest clue what it entails to run a charity, next to a fulltime job, a family and something that vaguely resembles a social life. They can’t help it. Still, I feel incredibly blessed and fortunate to be able to do this and I wouldn’t want it any other way. How very few people get the opportunity in their lives to follow their dream, their passion? How many people never even discover what their dream or passion is?
I am telling you this to explain, that when challenges occur in one of the other aspects of life; be it family, job or social- they also require time and attention. It’s like a balancing act. Imagine yourself constantly trying to keep a bunch of balls up in the air and suddenly one drops to the ground. You will have to bend down to pick it up again, and in order to do so, you stop juggling the other balls for a moment. You then regain momentum and there you go again.
So that’s why it’s been a bit more quiet in our corner. I realize this is not your regular ‘charity-type-please-send-money-soon’ blog post but I feel that it’s utterly useless to completely ignore the human aspect of charity management. Stuff happens. Fact of life.
Canine Life Support continues its work and the team in Sri Lanka has recently done a fabulous job for World Rabies Day on September 28th (see previous blog posts). We are planning to do another program for this month.
- Marit Merkus
