Building for Birds Campaign
construction • feature story about WRH • how you can help
The Wildlife Resqu Haus has added a new building!
Diana
Shaffer has gradually expanded her wildlife rehabilitation facilities
in Yorktown since she first started helping ill and injured animals in
1964. But now she's added her largest, most versatile building: a 20'
x 30' enclosed structure that contains amenities she long needed, but
never had till now:
- Plumbing
- Heating
- An exam area to evaluate and treat incoming patients
- Eight large indoor cages for small species and for larger intensive-care patients that can't be placed outside
The new building, which has made Diana's job of caring for 400-600 animals each year much more effective, began admitting new patients early in the spring of 2004.
To help fund the new building, the Robert Cooper Audubon Society launched the Building for Birds campaign in the of fall 2003, to raise $17,000 toward the total expected price tag of $22,000. (The actual cost ended up being just over $25,000.) A grant from the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County covered the initial $5,000.
To date, Building for Birds has brought in approximately $9,000, thanks to the generosity of dozens of supporters across east central Indiana. The remaining $11,000, however, has been paid out of Diana's own pockets – money that, otherwise, could go directly to animal care and feeding.
If you'd like to help us erase the remaining debt, please read "How you can help." You may also contact Diana directly at 765-759-9112 or at yorktownbirdlady@aol.com.
Diana
has paid for most feeding and housing expenses of the 8,000+ animals she's
taken in over the years. The RCAS has been proud to provide small amounts
of financial support to the Resqu Haus each year, but this is our chance
to help in a BIG way. We hope you'll be part of that effort.
To read a feature story about Diana's work at the Wildlife Resqu Haus
(written by Allyn West, Ball State University 2004 graduate), click
here.
To learn about specific ways to contribute to the Building for Birds Campaign, click here.
To see a photo gallery of construction at the Wildlife Resqu Haus, click here.
