VolunTEENs (students ages 16-18) are asked to perpetrate to a acceptable time and displacement of 2 hours each week for six months. The students are past placed into tiny teams of 3-5 individuals, which helps to enrich the acquisition for everyone involved. “Starting retired successful the programme I was capable to link with a radical of radical that were my age,” Alana said. “I’ve developed connections with the associates arsenic good and person learned truthful much. I consciousness similar I person gained a batch of mentors and friends done Animal League America.”

Though Alana enjoys each the antithetic areas of the organization, a favourite spot to enactment is successful the Pet Health Centers. She peculiarly appreciates the interaction she tin person helping the rescue animals who get needing aesculapian care. “I truly emotion helping them retrieve and making them consciousness comfortable,” Alana said, “because you tin spot that they’ve been done a lot.”

When it is clip for our dogs and cats to find their caller homes, Alana besides likes gathering connections with adopters to bring the close lucifer together. “I similar helping make caller families and getting to beryllium a dependable for the animals,” she noted. “The feeling of matching a canine with a household that is caput implicit heels for them is truthful fulfilling!”

Alana’s passionateness and committedness person been a existent payment to Animal League America wherever she is assisting. As Senior Volunteer Coordinator Melissa Hargett stated: “Alana has been a large summation to our VolunTEEN program! When Alana is successful for her shift, she is ever keeping busy, from mentoring caller teens to taking attraction of our animals and supporting our aesculapian team. We admit each of Alana’s hard enactment and dedication to our rescue pets!” We were truthful blessed to perceive that Alana’s clip astatine Animal League America informed her determination to prosecute veterinary studies erstwhile she gets to college, helping prevention adjacent much aboriginal dogs, cats, puppies and kittens successful need!

April is Volunteer Appreciation Month

At North Shore Animal League America, we could not execute each of the hands-on enactment that we bash without the assistance of our unthinkable squad of dedicated volunteers.

If you’d similar to larn much astir the Volunteer Program and disposable opportunities, delight sojourn animalleague.org/volunteer.