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Community work for Akira
entertainment and brought in plenty of donations for the children’s home.
The money raised at the event will go towards It’s All About The Children’s incredible work at their home. The children’s home was established back in 1948 by the Little Sisters of Saint Joseph of Montgay nuns who managed the home up until 2013, through old age.
• Diagnostic imaging and ultrasound Rx
• Clinical tests and serological tests, internal medicine, parasitology
• Soft Tissue Surgery and Traumatology
• Ethology, behavioural disorders and animal behaviour
• Physiotherapy, acupuncture, custom recovery and Healing touch
• Ophthalmology
• Dentistry and dental surgery & more
• Import - Export
Since then, the Nuestra Señora del Amparo Autonomous Foundation took over and relies on a team of dedicated volunteers from It’s All About The Children and other local organisations and volunteers.
The home currently cares for 54 disadvantaged children, but with only three fulltime staff, the home relies on the hard work of volunteers and donations.
More information about the home can be found online: https://www.itsall aboutthechildren.es/about
SPECSAVERS ÓPTICAS in Calpe put out the call for food, blankets and toys for the dogs at Akira Animal Sanctuary in Benissa and the animal loving community responded with great generosity.
Between midNovember and midJanuary, they collected in store and this month handed over the donations to grateful representatives of Akira. They collected; towels, blankets, two cooling blankets, dog leads, toys, medicine, approximately 75kg of dog food and €575 in cash donations.
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Store Director Chantelle Hayward commented, “We’d like to say a massive thank you to all our generous clients and local residents who came in with donations over the Christmas period. These donations
ALFAZ Town Hall’s departments of Education, Culture and Social Welfare recently announced their Cyber February programme.
This sets out to introduce the very young and the over55s to new technologies, with workshops and free activities directed at both age groups that will start on February 20.
Education councillor Loli Albero said that places were limited and advised those who were interested to enrol without delay at the Casa de Cultura.
This will not be necessary for workshops and activities held at Alfaz’s three primary schools will really help Akira to continue to care for the dogs. Thanks to everyone who gave cash donations when they had their free eye test what an amazing result!”
BillieJo JohnsonRoberts from Akira commented, “A huge thank you to Specsavers Opticas in Calpe and their clients for collecting donations for the dogs at Akira. We are very grateful to Specsavers for their time and effort to raise awareness of our dogs.” www.akiraanimals.com www.specsavers.es
Digital gap
where pupils will be introduced to information technology in a bid to close the digital gap.
On the other hand, enrolment will be necessary for young people’s workshops at the Municipal Library and the Hogar del Pensionista, said Culture councillor Manuel Casado.
The digitisation workshops for the over55s will be held at the Centro de Formacion Ocupacional from February 21 onwards and are limited to 15 attendees, with registration at the Casa de Cultura.
