Go the Distance 2022 – Vistula source to sea
Together with UK colleagues we would like to invite you to a fitness challenge that covers virtual travel from one end of the country to the other. In 2021 as one EMEA group we set up ourselves a new target to collectively and virtually travel through the participating branches - a total of over 4000 km (2500miles)! This year in Poland we want to cover distance of Polish main river – Vistula.
Participants of all athletic ability are encouraged to take part. You set your own distance, in your local area over the seven days, and you decide whether you cover it all in one go or spread it out over the week. You can run/ jog / walk/ swim / cycle (the only condition is that you will be able to count your distance). No distance is too big or too small – one mile a day, an ultra-marathon and everything in between, the choice is yours. No times, no pressure, just challenge yourself.
Setting ourselves a new target to collectively and virtually travel along the Vistula river: from the river source in the mountains to the Baltic Sea - a total of over 1047 km (651miles)! Collective distance will be tracked using the app Strava – this is free, available worldwide and on Apple or Android phones. The event will start on Monday 20 June and finish on Friday 24 June.
Registration is a suggested donation of 20PLN.
It would be great if friends, family and colleagues could support you in your efforts and contribute to charity as sponsorship. This will help fund Charity of the Year – EKOSTRAZ.
The modernization of Ekostraz premises, including building renovation and the provision of medical equipment.
The aim is for all participants to fundraise for the Credit Suisse charity of the year in their offices/home offices. Also family and friends are more than welcome to support.
Ekostraz
The mission of Wrocław's EKOSTRAŻA is the humane protection of domestic, wild, and free-living animals, which we implement through:
I. Intervention in cases of suspected animal abuse by humans.
II. Providing veterinary aid and care to sick, injured, and weakened wild and free-living animals, with particular emphasis on small mammals and birds.
III. Running a program of humanitarian protection of wild Lower Silesian hedgehogs, the aim of which is to care for hedgehogs temporarily unable to live independently in the wild and to popularize the species - its biology and protection.
IV. Legal protection of animals - we defend the interests of animals as victims/prosecutors of a meal in criminal proceedings regarding the abuse of animals and entities with party rights in administrative proceedings. We provide advice to citizens on the legal protection of animals.
With all of this, we are DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS.
1. We are LOCAL, we are ON THE SITE - we focus all our activities in Lower Silesia. We are not a branch, branch, district of anything. We operate mainly for Lower Silesian animals in need.
2. We are ONLY IN ITS KIND as the first local animal protection association in Lower Silesia, which deals with helping all animals, both wild and domestic, responding to signs of human abuse, as well as helping wild animals.
3. We are OURSELVES - we do not copy the methods of operation of any foreign or Polish animal protection organizations. We have our own value system to which we subordinate all our actions. It derives from the ethical utilitarianism of preferences, hence we are "welfarists" and not "abolitionists" in the use of animals by humans. We are legal legalists: we believe that strict enforcement of a well-developed law is an essential tool to improve animal welfare in Poland.
4. We are INNOVATIVE - we develop and constantly learn to discover new possibilities of helping animals. We try to set trends, change the world around us, using the latest strategies for managing people and projects. Hence, We are OPEN - we support the idea of an open association that positively motivates its members and provides them with extensive opportunities for personal development. Our social work is not based on any official subordination that distorts the very idea of association, but on a partnership of people determined to work together to protect animals through their own development.
As the first animal protection organization in Poland, we introduced Animal Protection Inspectors to the Statute (Chapter 5)in order to give them a clear and independent of someone's humor legal authorization to act as "an authorized representative of a social organization whose statutory purpose is to protect animals" and to ensure the possibility of development and partnerships in social action for the protection of animals.
We focus on the high qualifications of our volunteers, which is why we offer them an extensive series of training courses, conducted by lawyers, veterinarians, philosophers, and psychologists, covering such thematic blocks as Polish animal protection law, criminal and administrative proceedings in animal protection, psychology of intervention, animal welfare assessment, principles of intervention in animal protection.
We want to share our knowledge and experiences, which is why we have launched an open free Virtual Legal Clinic, where everyone can benefit from the advice of our experts.
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