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CAR BOOT SALES ARE CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE - SEE LEFT MARGIN OF THIS PAGE. THANK YOU.


For up to date information about SPAZ car boot sales, contact , Joanna Doulakis joanna_spaz@live.com    
6948 011572

Christmas Bazaar – SPAZ holds an annual Christmas Bazaar in the Cultural Center in Voula. This is a handicraft
bazaar and if you wish to rent a booth to sell your creations, contact Nikki Clainos at
nikki_spaz@live.com   or 6988
690493 .  If you wish to donate something to SPAZ’s white elephant table or international food café, please contact
Joanna Doulakis (see above).

This year the bazaar will take place on Saturday and Sunday December 4th and 5th.

Volunteer work is always needed and appreciated.  If you can help out by working at the bazaar, helping to set up and
clean up, etc. or can help at the SPAZ car boot sales, contact either Nikki Clainos or Joanna Doulakis.

Raffle – SPAZ usually holds a raffle at Christmas Bazaars.  For this we need good new items. Contact Nikki Clainos
(see contact details above) if you have something to donate or are willing to solicit stores for gifts.

Regular Events with SPAZ

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SPAZ Members &
Supporters

Please send ANT an email to
urge them to maintain
the program about animals -
SYGKATOIKIDIA - to a
one-hour program and not
reduce it to 30 minutes.
 

Copy & paste the
letter below.......


Subject: SYGKATOIKIDIA
Email:
spiropoulouk@antenna.gr

Dear Sir,
I am writing to protest about
the decision to reduce the
time of "SYGKATOIKIDIA"
presented by Argyro Morou
from one hour to 30 minutes.

Ms Morou has done a
wonderful job and should be
applauded for the effort she
has made to support the
animals. The situation with
regards to animals in Greece
is of great concern to us and
this program was a very good
way of informing people and
also getting support for the
animals.

I am writing on behalf of many
other listeners and ask you
please to consider reinstating
this program to the full hour
again.

Thank you,



SPAZ is organizing an event in Glyfada to celebrate
World Animal Day October 4th.  

Watch this website for more details.  

If you would like to help, contact Joanna Doulakis.

6948 011572
joanna_spaz@live.com

Next SPAZ
committee
meeting -

TO BE
ANNOUNCED


Click here to send us your ideas for
World Animal Day today!!


Would a SPAZ member like to
suggest and organize
something special for World
Animal Day in October?

You can look at this website to
get some ideas about what
others are doing.
www.worldanimalday.org.uk



Ali, Kalinga, Jacqui, Asa and Nikki – monkeys given a second chance


When Lucille Morin phoned me a year ago and suggested I do something about
the monkeys living at the Hellenic Wild Life Center in Aegina (EKPAZ), I was taken back.  I’m a SPAZ member; I
work with stray cats and dogs; my home is full of ex-stray cats and dogs; I know nothing about monkeys.  But
Lucille is a very forceful person and convinced me to consider it.  And then, one of those coincidences occurred.  
Eva Spyridis, a volunteer working at the  EKPAZ center, phoned me; she remembered me from Athens some
years ago when she was a SPAZ member, and she asked me to help her re-home the monkeys! Fate seemed to
be calling me and I had to respond.  













Eva had made some preliminary inquiries about sending them to a Primate Rescue Center but needed help to
continue. I needed help too, so contacted David Barnes, who we worked with to rescue the two caged lions from
Salonika about 12 years ago (they eventually went to Born Free in South Africa).  David agreed to help.  As it
turned out he had organized the re-homing of more than 65 monkeys from Greece to
Primate Rescue Centers in Europe over the last ten years so he was familiar with the
official steps that needed to be taken.  And we started.













AAP agreed to find homes for all the monkeys, and some of the other animals as well, but said it would take time
to find places for all of them.  We notified the Ministry, started the paper work, got the cages ready and waited.  In
June 2009, a representative came from AAP and David Barnes from the U.K. and Katharina Anni from the
Ministry and three monkeys were transported to the airport and flown to Holland.  From there, two of them went to
a Primate Center in France and Ali, the baby monkey, was placed with a surrogate mother at AAP, where he is
growing up in comfort.












All of the monkeys have their stories.  Kalinga lived in the women’s prison in Thebes with her mate for 7 years.  
When he died, she was transferred to Aegina.  Ali was bought in a market in Morocco, lived on a yacht for a
while, then in Rhodes, then came to Aegina, all before his sixth month of life.  Jacqui was confiscated from a bar
in Athens. Asa lived with a gypsy for some years and at some point, all her teeth were removed, probably
because she bit someone. Nikki was confiscated from a Bulgarian in Salonica who had brought her into the
country illegally.  EKPAZ is set up as a wild bird sanctuary and does not have the proper facilities for monkeys.  
Nevertheless they were brought there and languished in cages for years.  Unfortunately, they could not share
cages as they were all from different species. My first impression of them was that they were lonely and
depressed.  They touched my heart.














After Ali, Kalinga and Jaqui left, we waited.  I hoped that Lola, Asa and Nikki might leave before the winter, as it
gets really cold at EKPAZ, which is located in a mountainous area of the island.  But AAP (which had a waiting
list of about 500 animals waiting to be rescued) had no place for them to go. I just kept sending AAP emails,
reminding them of the monkeys. Unfortunately, by January of this year, they were still here and it was cold.  Lucille
and Bill bought meters of heavy plastic to wrap around Nikki’s cage (she was in a large aviary in an outside
area). And then Lola died.  David, Eva, Lucille and I were so sorry and angry and discouraged. I begged AAP to
give Nikki and Asa some priority on the list or they would die too!  Then Asa was offered a new home. Hurrah, we
thought. Then another problem occurred. The Ministry did not have the proper papers for her. Since their officials
had confiscated her and brought her to Aegina, this seemed unacceptable.  So I emailed Prime Minister
Papandreou, Minister of Agriculture and Vice-Minister of Agriculture begging them to clear up the paperwork.
I never received a response; I suppose I didn’t expect one.  But five days later, David emailed me from London
and said the paperwork was in order and Asa could leave. Maybe it was a miracle? Alas, in the meantime, AAP
had given Asa’s place to another monkey in need, but they promised to bring both Nikki and Asa (and the two
coatis) to Holland as soon as possible.  And they made good their promise.  The four animals left Athens on April
8th, with EKPAZ personnel Yianni and Pavlos, Katharina Anni from the Ministry, and Joanna Doulakis and Tzela
Pagoni from SPAZ all at the airport to complete the paperwork and pay for the ticket.  AAP covers the cost but
the tickets must be paid in cash in Athens so SPAZ lent them the money, a total of almost 1500 Euros (the
Ministry was unable to do this).

All the monkeys are now gone from EKPAZ and the team of people who worked to get them out are so happy for
them. In the final analysis, it was the team effort that accomplished this and the cooperation of Katharina Anni
from the Ministry was an important factor.  Thanks to everyone who helped; thanks to SPAZ; thank you AAP.

Elizabeth Koubena for SPAZ




SPAZ helps Machmuga fly to Holland

SPAZ helped another monkey move on to a new life
at AAP – the Primate Rescue Center in Holland.  His
name is Machmuga and SPAZ members Bill Holz and
Lucille Morin loaned the money for his KLM ticket to
Amsterdam.  AAP covers the cost but the tickets has
to be paid in cash when the animal is brought to the
airport animal transport center. As you can see in the
photo taken by Fofi Dimitriadou at the airport,
Machmuga was calm and comfortable in his cage and
arrived in good shape. He was picked up at 8pm at
Schiphol airport and was driven to the center at
Almere, a 40 minute drive.  He was calm and
interested in everything around him.  When he
arrived in the quarantine he was a bit agitated but
when his pillow and
toys were handed to him, from then on he relaxed. The
new situation must be strange for him but he will be
kept busy with all sorts of enrichment.
After the quarantine time he will be introduced to Niki,
the green
monkey that has also arrived from Greece in 2008.

AAP thanked SPAZ for making this transport go as
smoothly as the last one .  If you are interested in
learning more about AAP, go to their website.



ATTENTION!



Car Boot Sales
have been
cancelled because
the venue at the
former Olympic
Airport
is not longer
available for us to
use.  

SPAZ is trying to
find a new location
and will inform our
members and post
it on this website
when we have
succeeded.


Wish us luck!
If you have any
ideas for a new
venue, please
contact us!!

For more information   on
SPAZ, our work,
and how we can help
you help the animals,  
contact the appropriate
person listed below.

General Contact
Details:
PO Box 70213
Glyfada, Athens
Greece 166-10
spazgreece@hotmail.co.uk

Individual Contact
Details:

Joanna Doulakis
(President)   
6948 011572

Tatiana Papamoschou
(Vice President)
6944 221297
210 895 8582

Fofi Dimitriadou
(Treasurer)

Tzela Pagoni
(Secretary)

Nikki Clainos
(Member-at-large)
6988 690493

Lucille Morin
(committee member)

Sue Green
(committee member)
6977 939137

Vasso Clainos
(committee member)

Elizabeth Koubena
(website)

Sia Hurst
(website)

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What have you
done for a
stray today?

We know that
our members
are busy
rescuing
strays, feeding
strays,
neutering
strays, looking
after strays -
what we don't
know are the
details!  So we
are asking our
members to
tell us.  

Send us a few
sentences
about what
you did for a
stray today (or
yesterday),
and we'll post
it on our
website!

Perhaps
reading about
what you did
for a stray
might inspire
someone else
to do the same.

Let's celebrate
all the great
things we are
all doing for
the animals!!

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