Four times per year, every January 15th, April 15th, July 15th and October 15th, we join the Blog The Change event to think how to make the world a better place for animals.

How to help a shelter without giving it food, toys, material, or money ? These elements are important, and they are the first ones of which everybody thinks, but you can also offer something else very precious: your skills.

• If you’re a photographer, you can take magnificent photos of the shelter animals which will allow to realize a calendar. The refuge can sell this calendar and get a small income from it.
• If you’re Web Designer or a blogger, and if you feel at ease with WordPress, Blogger, Joomla or,… you can create or relook the site of your shelter so that it’s pleasant, modern, easy to update, and maybe even free !
• To manage a shelter, successful computers are needed : you are in the field of computing ? Then you can help to assure the equipment and network maintenance (updates, security, backups). You can also help the persons in charge of the shelter to plan the budget of replacement of equipment.
• If you’re a public character, you can use your celebrity to make known the work of the shelter, present animals to adopt, or to organize an annual fund raising.
• If you’re in the field of accounts department or tax system, your advice can be appreciated for setting up a system to take into account, close the annual balance assessment or still plan the following budget.
• If you work in the legal domain (jurist, lawyer,…), you can simply be at arrangement if necessary : you never can tell…

Do you have other ideas ?