Paws and Claws donated $25,000 to Almost Home Animal Shelter for new cages, and Camden County agreed to match our donation!
Nancy Welsh opened Almost Home Animal Shelter in Pennsauken, NJ in 2006 as a temporary shelter “after the private West Jersey Animal Shelter in Pennsauken closed and the township reached out to Welsh…” explains Kevin Riordan on philly.com.
“The idea was to have the temporary shelter operate for about 18 months while a consortium of towns, working with Camden County, collectively came up with a permanent arrangement”.
Welsh had been a veterinary technician, animal control officer, and lifelong animal lover from Collingswood before becoming the director of Almost Home. Six years later, the shelter is still open. The combined funding (averaging $16,000 per month) from the six towns of Pennsauken, Gloucester City, Merchantville, Audubon, Audubon Park and Woodlynne does not cover all the costs associated with running the shelter.
Almost Home relies on private donations and fundraisers to cover the rest of their shelter expenses. They have nearly had to close their doors more than once in the last six years.
See page 6 of our June 2012 issue of Burlington Reports for the full story.
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