Our Common Cause Animal Protection Foundation is launching a campaign to support civic animal advocates

Közös Ügyün az Allatvédelm Alapítvány is launching a campaign to support civilian animal protectors, and initiative participants can win up to one ton in food donations for the organization they support – the foundation told MTI on Monday.

Our Common Cause, in collaboration with Animal Protection Foundation Peter Ovady, the government commissioner responsible for the development and implementation of the Animal Protection Action Plan, announced for the first time between April 3 and May 22 its campaign aimed at promoting Hungarian civilian animals. Conservation organizations, which is also an invitation to taxpayers of the Consolidated Tax Fund, will donate 1 percent of the personal income tax paid to a registered NGO engaged in animal protection activities – the announcement reads.

As written, as part of the campaign that is being run with the professional partnership of the Center for Animal Protection Law, Analysis and Methodology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, an Internet prize game has also started, where everyone can defend the animal protection organization dear to them, and on the other hand, they can donate up to 1,000 kilograms of food for the organization they support.

The player’s task is to create a maximum of 8-second video clip by the end of April, in which the applicant is seen with a live animal and says: “I also support animal protectors!”. Then, the video must be uploaded to the applicant’s Facebook, Instagram or TikTok page with the hashtag #kozosugyunkazallatvedelem, noting that if the video is chosen as one of the best, the Civil Animal Protection Organization will receive the award.

The jury assembled by the Foundation selects the most interesting and creative videos. The organization nominated by the winner will receive a food donation of 1 ton (1,000 kg), second place 500 kg, third place 300 kg, but the video with the most positive feedback will also be awarded 200 kg of food – they wrote, stressing that during Making the video you should pay attention to the welfare of the animal in it.

In the announcement, it was recalled that Hungary is at the forefront of Europe in terms of the percentage of households keeping dogs and cats, that the population keeps more and more exotic animals, and that interest in farm animals and the welfare of wild animals is also growing.

In Hungary, the public benefit mission to rescue animals is usually carried out by animal protection NGOs, doing ad hoc work in order to find new and responsible owners for stray dogs and cats, as well as attempting to curb the expansion of stray animal numbers through they indicated eunuch.

Peter Ovady was quoted in the ad, who emphasized that according to IRS data, in recent years, less than half of taxpayers have donated 1% of their taxes to charity, so there’s plenty of reserve in the system. Those who have not yet decided 1% of personal income tax About their fate, it is important for them to know: If animal welfare organizations are designated as beneficiaries, they can literally save lives, as these amounts are used for medical treatment and appropriate care of sick, sick or injured animals of animal care organizations.

Szilvia Vetter, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Animal Protection Foundation for Common Cause of Our Common Cause, confirmed in the statement: They hope that more and more people will participate in this organized campaign for the first time, helping animal protection and civic guardians. He added that expressions of animal love and creativity will be rewarded during the game, and the aim is to draw people’s attention to the topic and promote animal protection on as many platforms as possible.

More information about the campaign Our common cause is the Animal Welfare Foundation They can be found on the Internet – advertising states.