Not only taking care of animals, the Roadsign Australia's Company stands also for social responsible, and is therefore involved in several poverty programmes all over the globe.
To allow the poorest children to reach basic education, learn to read and write, Roadsign Australia has implemented since 3 years a Roadsign School Sponsorship Programme, aimed to build several school in the most disadvantaged places in the world.
In coordination with Mrs Chari Shridar from the Rotary Club Bangalore and Mr Guido Koch from Jansen Textile in Germany, Roadsign Australia has been able to build 2 primary schools in the Bangalore neighbourhood in a 3 years time.
The Roadsign School Sponsorship Programme grants young children an education, and a chance to escape poverty. This programme provides building facilities, salaries for the teachers, school supplies, and regular health examination for the children.
The Roadsign School Sponsorship Programme has resulted nowadays in the opening of two primary school (Bangalore - Karnataka) welcoming approximately 500 children, and our ambition is to carry on the project in the upcoming years by opening a new school every year.
Peg Solomon was the first recipient of our program of ongoing grants. Instead of opting for a quiet retirement, Peg set up Willow Farm Sanctuary to look after injured, unwanted or mistreated animals of all kinds. Working largely on her own, she often cares for hundreds of animals at a time - a task that requires working 18 hour days. As you might imagine, the costs involved in food and veterinary bills far outstrip her pension.
She receives some assistance from supermarkets who donate expired products, but largely relies on donations to keep the sanctuary going.
Marilyn has always been dedicated to animals. Very independent; after being a nun, she decided to look after animals. She lives by herself in a little house. She rescues animals, especially kangaroos and joeys as well as chickens, dogs and more. We have helped Marilyn since 2000 to buy the food for the animals. Marilyn is concerned for our native animals as she sees animals affected by farming practices and urban growth.
Liz and her band of volunteers have been looking after animals for many years. After being a veterinary nurse she decided to dedicate her life to rescuing animals. She looks after about 100 kangaroos at a time as well as a few wombats and echidnas.
Having volunteers is a big help for her even if they often come for a while and go. Liz covers the cost of treating and caring for the animals mainly through her work in education and in displaying the animals in different venues which can be very challenging. For this reason we decided to start helping her since July 2005.
The hospital is located in an area of national park now surrounded by the growing town of Port Macquarie on the NSW Central Coast. It is a community centre for assisting the koalas cope with the growing areas of housing which are forever expanding outwards. Yearly they have around 250 to 300 koalas admitted for care before being released into the wild. The weekly roster of caretakers numbers some 42 people from throughout the community. Every animal on arrival is checked for its medical condition and then cared for accordingly. The koalas' food, which is the leaf from specific species of eucalypt, is collected from as far as 30 kilometres away from the hospital and brought in daily to feed the resident koalas. The volunteers are essential to the operation which is run from within new modern facilities.
