Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare
| Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare (SUST) |
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| Legal form: | Foundation, endowment |
| Purpose: | Improving the quality of animal shelters and animal welfare projects |
| Chair: | Management: Susy Utzinger President of the Board of Trustees: Philippe Sami Kayasseh |
| Consist: | September 7, 2000 |
| Seat: | Kollbrunn / Switzerland |
| Website: | www.susyutzinger.ch |
The Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare (SUST) is a Swiss non-profit organization based in Kollbrunn in the canton of Zurich and was founded on September 7, 2000 by Susy Utzinger. The purpose of the foundation is to improve the quality of animal shelters and animal welfare projects at home and abroad, to prevent cruelty and neglect of animals, and to promote animal welfare on a national and international level.
Areas of activity
The SUST builds on emergency aid and on the four pillars of animal shelter support, castration campaigns, education of the population and further training of specialists.
Emergency aid
Immediate aid is initially intended to ensure the survival of animals in Switzerland and in other countries.
Emergency aid from Switzerland
- Social work for animals: deliveries of feed for animals of destitute owners, veterinary care, reimbursement of costs for dog and cat neutering, education of animal owners in discussions and by means of brochures.
- Financing of the deficit that arises for the Large Animal Rescue Service Switzerland and Liechtenstein (GTRD) through the rescue of farm animals.
- Support for wildlife stations in Switzerland: Delivery of feed and consumables for hedgehog, bird and squirrel stations.
- Rescue of amphibians: During the spawning season, helpers bring toads and frogs safely across the streets.
- Laying hen campaigns: Placement of laying hens in a new home, which are otherwise sorted out and killed in large farms at the age of about one year.
Emergency aid abroad
- Professional care and care of injured and sick animals in the four SUST animal orphan hospitals in Romania, Egypt and Peru. The SUST finances veterinary costs, clinic facilities, medication, operations, therapies, food, care and often the construction of the respective clinic.
- Work horse days: veterinary treatment, hoof and dental care for work horses and work donkeys of poor owners in Romania and Egypt by SUST large veterinarians and farriers of the Dutch organization Stichting Roemeense Paarden in Nood.
- Support for rabies vaccination campaigns, for example in 2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Shelter support
The Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare supports animal shelters and animal welfare projects at home and abroad. The aim is to provide accommodation that is as appropriate to the species as possible, veterinary care and professional care of the animals. As part of one-week SUST work assignments abroad, animal welfare teams evaluate organizational and structural problems and reorganize processes in order to optimize the animal shelters. They do pending work, make structural changes, hire craftsmen and provide veterinary first aid. In addition, the foundation supplies building materials, animal shelter utensils and feed. The foundation collects, disinfects, sorts and delivers around 75 tons of animal paraphernalia to animal shelters in need every year.
Castration campaigns
Large-scale castration campaigns are intended to reduce the overpopulation of street animals in a sustainable and animal-friendly manner, which often live under difficult conditions. The foundation works with veterinarians in Switzerland and abroad and regularly carries out castration missions on site. The organization pays for stocks from farms and overgrown groups, finances feeding stations and supplies material for castration campaigns such as cat and dog traps. In the SUST animal orphan hospitals in Romania, Egypt and Peru, castrations are also carried out on an ongoing basis. Posters, leaflets and the brochure "Katzenkastration = active animal welfare" inform the population and raise awareness of the topic. In 2018 around 12,000 cats and dogs were neutered at home and abroad.
Education and information for the population
With media reports, information campaigns, lectures, brochures and flyers, the foundation informs the population in Switzerland and other countries about current issues and problems in animal welfare, such as the danger to animals in the summer heat in the vehicle. The free information series "Animal Welfare Through Correct Action" gives pet owners tips on keeping, protecting and caring for their pets. Visits by a SUST educator in school classes or age-appropriate booklets that are translated into up to ten languages sensitize children in Switzerland and other countries to animal welfare.
Education and training of specialists
The SUST Academy offers courses on the handling and care of animals as well as on the management of animal shelters and animal welfare projects. The seminars and lectures are aimed at veterinarians, animal keepers, dog trainers and volunteers. A trainee program prepares young Swiss veterinarians for animal welfare and castration campaigns at home and abroad. By co-founding the “Association of Working World Animal Welfare Switzerland”, the organization advocates the development of a professional examination for “Animal Welfare Specialist”. Abroad, in cooperation with partner projects, the foundation promotes the further training of specialists and animal rights activists in the context of seminars. SUST veterinarian trainings on population controls, effective castration and anesthesia techniques convey theoretical basics and practical knowledge, such as new, animal-friendly surgical methods in various countries.
organization
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees of the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation is the strategic management body and takes on the medium and long-term management and control functions. The President leads the Board of Trustees and chairs the meetings. Philippe Sami Kayasseh is the president of the five-member board of trustees.
Managing directors
The managing director Susy Utzinger heads the foundation in Kollbrunn . She is supported in the operative business by six part-time employees. The foundation cooperates with numerous partner projects worldwide.
Foundation newspaper
The foundation newspaper "animal flash" reports four times a year on the foundation's current activities.
Funding and support
financing
The Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare is financed exclusively through donations and bequests. In 2018, around 36,400 people donated just under 1.13 million Swiss francs . The Swiss Foundation is exempt from the state and general municipal taxes of the Canton of Zurich and from direct federal taxes and is supervised by the Federal Department of Home Affairs. In 2018, 36 percent of the funds went to projects in Switzerland. 64 percent of the income was used for measures in other countries.
Animal welfare worker
In 2018, 193 volunteer helpers and vets got involved in work assignments and campaigns for the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare or supported the foundation with its administrative expansion.
Web links
Website of the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare
Individual evidence
- ↑ Foundation entry . In: List of foundations of the Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
- ^ Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare. In: Directory of tax-exempt institutions as of 06/12/19. Cantonal Tax Office Zurich, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual report 2018, p. 5. Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Immediate aid - this is how animal lives are saved. Website of the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ "Otherwise the animals would not see a veterinarian". 20 minutes from October 5, 2018, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual Report 2018, p. 10. Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Our partners / links. GTRD website, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual Report 2018, p. 11. Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Frogs do not cross pedestrian crossings. Winterthurer Zeitung of March 21, 2018, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Laying hens are slaughtered after a year - these 650 here were lucky. Aargauer Zeitung from September 15, 2019 , accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ shelter support. Website of the Susy Utzingr Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual report 2018, p. 13. Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ castration campaigns. Website of the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ "Animal use". In: "Reporter" program. Swiss television, October 21, 2012, accessed on October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual report 2018, p. 69.Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Even five minutes of heat are often fatal for dogs. In: 20 minutes from June 24th, 2019. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
- ^ Education and information for the population. Website of the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Education and training of specialists. Website of the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Founding of the professional association “Verband Arbeitswelt Tierschutz Schweiz”. In: press release. Association of the Working World Animal Welfare Switzerland, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Good Governance Code: Board of Trustees - responsibilities and duties. Website of the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Entry in the commercial register dated August 23, 2019. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Entry in the commercial register from August 15, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Foundation newspaper "animal flash". Website of the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual report 2018, p. 64.Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual Report 2018, p. 5. Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual report 2018, p. 65.Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, accessed on September 26, 2019 .