Dear Member & Supporter;
Sometimes I find it hard to believe that ARAN is still very much a small grassroots group. For nearly seventeen years now we’ve being fighting animal abuse. There can be no denying it that our work continues to be highly effective in various areas ranging from effective media coverage, life changing educational programs, grassroots activism and inspiring huge numbers of people everywhere to take action to help animals. Whilst I am often the more public face of ARAN, what lies behind the scenes is a determined group of highly educated, tenacious volunteers working often long, hard, stressful hours – and the work pays off because we’re seeing positive change happening faster than ever before. Every single day of the week I receive many calls, emails and yes the good old-fashioned letters from our members everywhere thanking us for the work that ARAN does but more importantly to thank us for touching or changing their lives or indeed someone they know and this is how we gauge success. I wish I could tell you that we'll end all this suffering, exploitation and cruelty right now, but we won't, and it's going to take some time, but what I do want you to know is that there is hope on the horizon and I mean that because we're seeing so much change in peoples attitudes and behaviors and we know our work is paying off faster than ever before.
Please see attached some nice pictures of recent ARAN events:-
For the last four and a half months we have led massive outreach efforts on the streets, we’ve mobilised hundreds of our supporters to take action, led big demonstrations to expose fur farms, animal experimentation, circuses, slaughterhouses and much more and yes, media coverage, we’ve literally blanketed the entire country with the animals’ plight on possibly every local radio station and newspaper in the country, and of course on every national radio station and newspaper - consistently. It was only up until last week that our media coverage has started to quieting down which gives us more time to focus on other areas. There can be no denying it those who hurt and abuse animals would never want ARAN being this effective and they would NEVER want you supporting ARAN. But to be this effective it takes huge amounts of long hours, sleepless nights, stressful moments and painstaking bearing witness to the cruelty through the continuous heartbreaking undercover investigations that are coming out and that we review – we're happy to take on this pressure, but we honestly cannot do this without you.
Remember, that the next time we ask you for your time to write an email or letter, send a donation, or attend an ARAN event or demonstration that those simple requests are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what goes on behind the scenes at ARAN to fight animal abuse – you really have the easiest options of fighting animal abuse. I honestly would hate to think if ARAN was to wrap up in the morning, it would be a very sad, dark day for the animals – but I hope that I can count on your support to ensure our continued determination, growth and success.
Thank you,
John Carmody
Founder of ARAN
P.S. Click here for a really nice video link to our latest school educational class. It's because of the kind, generous support of our members that we can get in to schools and out on the streets, but there really is so much more that we want to do and cannot, because we simply do not have the resources to do so.
