Boxing Day 2011 Sponsored Swim

After a weekend of rain and wind Paphiakos supporters turned out to see 7 brave supporters of Paphiakos swim for 15 minutes in the cold sea at Vardas Beach, Kissonerga all managing to raise funds for the animals.No wet suits or grease allowed for the swim, well done to all of you.

            PAPHIAKOS WISH LIST DELIVERY 25th December 2011 
Christmas Day saw Cynthia Smith-Parsons arriving at the Paphiakos and CCP Animal Welfare Clinic with a truck load of donated goods for the shelter.Items ranged from carrying boxes to stainless steel dishes,buckets and bowls, washing up liquid,disinfectant over 60 towels as well as food for the cats and dogs and even the horses and donkeys  as cabbages and carrots were kindly donated by Papamichael supermarket in Mandria. There was also a selection of gardening tools essential for the shelter staff to carry out their very necessary tasks.

Cynthia would like to thank everyone who made a donation to the Shelter Wish List and hopes all her customers friends and supporters have a very Happy New Year.

 Another successful quiz evening held at

Georgie Porgie's Restaurant Chloraka 28th November

The event was hosted by Peter Gray who with his wife Julie created a testing series of quiz questions, many with a Seasonal theme.Thanks to the dedicated work of Karen, Peter and Julie and most importantly the generosity of the guests, €331 was raised for the charity from ticket sales and the raffle.

Thank you Georgie Porgie's for helping make this a most enjoyable evening. 

We are all looking forward to the next quiz which will be announced in the New Year.

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                        1st November Soup Kitchen. Another Runaway Success!
Thanks to everyone who offered their free time, those who donated spectacular prizes and everyone who came to support, the Kouklia Soup Kitchen and Plant sale event which raised €1000.
Special thanks go to 'You Kays' who donated the wonderful 1st prize of a Christmas Hamper worth over €200. This was won by Lynn Carson who worked so hard selling the soups and is going to share it with a 95 year old lady who lives in a care home in Chlorakas.
Also thank  you to:
•Demitri the owner of Papa Michael Supermarket in Mandria who donated all the ingredients for the soups.
•The four lovely ladies in the kitchen led by Ellen who kept those soups coming and     continually washed up all afternoon.
•Plus all those volunteers who ran stalls, donated goods, supporters who came along on the day and those who donated cat food and other goods for the shelter.
•And of course thanks to Chris for making those wonderful soups that made the whole day possible.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
Cynthia 

Please click in photo to see highlights

Thank you to Everyone who visited Paphiakos

at the Episkopi Show 17th September 20011

GRAND AUCTION NIGHT
On the evening of Wednesday 15th June a Grand Auction was held at The Auction Rooms at Yeroskipou. Cynthia Smith-Parsons submitted several items for auction that had been donated by supporters of Paphiakos and raised €306.80.
In addition €1032 has already been raised for Paphiakos by Cynthia at the regular auctions that takes place at The Auctions Rooms every Saturday.

Pictured :Cynthia with Hester the Auctioneer left along with Lydia & Carlos members of the Auction House Team.

Sunset Quiz Evening Saturday 11th June 2011

After a series of well attended quiz evenings at third party venues, Saturday’s quiz was hosted by Karen & Peter Paddison at their house and gardens.  Karen had assembled a well organised catering team to prepare and serve an extensive buffet to sixty four guests.The event was hosted by Peter Gray who had once again created a teasing series of quiz questions, which was won finally on a tie break.Thanks to the dedicated work of Karen and her catering team and most importantly the generosity of the guests, €722 was raised for the charity from ticket sales and the raffle.We are most grateful to Karen & Peter for the kind use of their home as a venue, which has maximised the amount raised for Paphiakos.

School Fete Sunday 29th May

St Johns School at Episkopi invited Paphiakos Animal Welfare to their Summer Fete so  PR Manager Suzanne Ashmore along with several very willing Paphiakos volunteers, Janice, Caroline, Rosemary and Roger took some donkeys and the tombola along to raise some funds. This was the first time the donkeys went to the school and proved very popular with the children. The weather was kind and at the end of the day the volunteers went back with more than they expected! Our PR Manager, whilst driving along the motorway suddenly stopped the car and shouted “Sorry folks we can't go home yet we're on a rescue mission”. The volunteers all amazed, jumped out of the car with her.  Suzanne had spotted an abonadoned hunting dog! Janice and Caroline ran towards the dog whilst Roger removed the belt from his trousers to use as a lead but strangely the dog didn’t run away but wagged her tail as she was approached.

If you would like to re-home this abandoned dog  now living at our shelter then call our Re-Homing Officer on 00357 26946461.

If you would like to have donkey rides at one of your fetes or event then please contact Suzanne on telephone 00357 99151996

Europe Day Celebrations 2011

 Europe Day Celebrations in Paphos was addressed by the Mayor of Paphos, Mr Savvas Vergas, the Head of the European Parliament Office in Cyprus, Mr Tasos Georgiou, the Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Cyprus, Ms Androulla Kaminara, the Minister of Health, Mr Christos Patsalides, and the Director General of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, Mr George Papageorgiou.

Susan Brookbanks our Events Manager at Papahiakos was honoured to be invited along with her team to join the Europe Day Celebrations on Saturday 7th May which was held at the Archaeological Site at the Harbour. Paphiakos provided promotional material, as we have strong links to environmental awareness.  Most European countries had Stands and were supplying informational material on their own countries. Entertainment was seen from Greek Dancers, Choirs ,schools and a Concert by  local bands and singers. Europe Direct have very kindly supplied us with publications related to the environment, for the children.  These are available in our Paphiakos Clinic area.

Click here to see 1st May 2011 Hot Dog Show Highlights

              
 Episkopi Station Spring Fayre Saturday 17th April 2011

Great Day at Episkopi this weekend, the weather held off, there was entertainment all day from the group called the Islanders, we had Morris dancing, our Rescue donkeys for donkey rides. Volunteers Janice, Caroline and Roger accompanied our PR Manager Suzanne for the day. Together they put on donkey rides,Tombola.

by Suzanne Ashmore

HEALTH & BODY WORKSHOP RAISES MONEY FOR PAPHIAKOS

The Health & body Workshop held at Cynthia Smith-Parsons home in Kouklia on Sunday 10th April was a runaway success. The day was a woman only event and sold out of tickets in less than two weeks!Beauty care and therapies on offer ranged from massage to manicure and from facials to aromatherapy. The day saw over sixty ladies in attendance who enjoyed the whole experience. And everyone that had booked a therapy received a free beauty gift and also enjoyed the healthy option buffet that had been part of the whole day.The event raised in excess of €2000 overall taking into account the huge commercial support it received.This included over €600 in beauty products which in turn were passed onto the guests and volunteers.Specially produced Health & Body Workshop t shirts and information packs were made available thanks to the generosity of some local Paphos business's. The therapists and support team freely gave their time.Sales of treatments,therapies and craft goods along with advertising and a raffle raised a bumper €712.50 which was presented to Paphiakos.Cynthia says a big thank you to everyone that made the day possible and a special thank you to Houston Medical for coming along and offering free health monitoring to the guests.
One last mention has to go to Cynthia's husband Chris for spending the entire day confined to the kitchen washing up and not receiving so much as a tube of hand cream or pair of Marigolds!

Paphos Come Dancing 9th April 2011

Thank you Melanie & Leighton and their team Jo, Katie and Jess from 4front entertainments for an absolutely amazing night out. The night started off with with a duo called DNA who flew in from England to sing and play saxophone,followed by  the dance lesson for the Argentina Tango. Leighton is such a good dance teacher he had everybody tangoing within 20 minutes.If you would like to take up dance lessons then give Leighton a call on 00357 96525050.Leighton's wife Melanie also entertained us with her amazing voice and dance routines and she also provides singing lessons so if you would like to take up lessons then give Melanie a call on telephone  00357 96552901

Proceeds of the raffle went to Paphiakos for the night and our thanks go out to Suzanne Ashmore our Pr Manager and Diane Taylor, one of our Volunteer helpers for helping raise more funds for the charity. 

                            Thank You to Everyone who helped and gave Support
                                     on our SOS Day Sunday 27th March 2011

SOS day, another great  success, over 60 volunteers turned up to help the day go smoothly. During the day over 300 dogs were walked . 3 dogs re-homed, 7 dogs sponsored and several new members joined us. We received cash donations, food donations, even bric a brac given to us on the day too. Thanks to all the visitors on the day, who fed the animals walked the dogs cuddled the cats. We look forward to the next shelter open day Sunday 2nd October in conjunction with World animal Day.


 

WONDERFUL EVENING ON VALENTINE’S NIGHT PAPHOS GARDENS 2011

Paphiakos Animal Welfare can confidently say our Valentine’s Evening a Paphos Gardens was very enjoyable.  The venue looked lovely, and a very big thank you to the staff, volunteers, Hugo’s restaurant who kindly supplied the canapé’s, Annivia Gardens Centre for the beautiful flowers and Papantonios for the sparkling wine.  Not to mention the entertainers who were great, and in particular to SoundsSuperior who should have finished at Midnight, but by request continued until much later. Below a few pictures of our evening that say a 1000 words.  Thanks to Susan Brookbanks our new Events Manager for organising the evening.

Suzanne Ashmore, PR Manager

Paphiakos Animal Welfare, can confidently say, our Valentine’s Evening a Paphos Gardens was very enjoyable.  The venue looked lovely, and a very big thank you for the staff, volunteers, Hugo’s restaurant who kindly supplied the canapé’s, Annivia Gardens Centre for the beautiful flowers, and Papantonios for the sparkling wine.  Not to mention the entertainers who were great, and in particular to SoundsSuperior who should have finished at Midnight, but by request continued until much later. Below a few pictures of our evening that say a1000 words.  Thanks to Susan Brookbanks our new events manager for organising the eveningPaphiakos Animal Welfare, can confidently say, our Valentine’s Evening a Paphos Gardens was very enjoyable.  The venue looked lovely, and a very big thank you for the staff, volunteers, Hugo’s restaurant who kindly supplied the canapé’s, Annivia Gardens Centre for the beautiful flowers, and Papantonios for the sparkling wine.  Not to mention the entertainers who were great, and in particular to SoundsSuperior who should have finished at Midnight, but by request continued until much later. Below a few pictures of our evening that say a1000 words.  Thanks to Susan Brookbanks our new events manager for organising the eveningPaphiakos Animal Welfare, can confidently say, our Valentine’s Evening a Paphos Gardens was very enjoyable.  The venue looked lovely, and a very big thank you for the staff, volunteers, Hugo’s restaurant who kindly supplied the canapé’s, Annivia Gardens Centre for the beautiful flowers, and Papantonios for the sparkling wine.  Not to mention the entertainers who were great, and in particular to SoundsSuperior who should have finished at Midnight, but by request continued until much later. Below a few pictures of our evening that say a1000 words.  Thanks to Susan Brookbanks our new events manager for organising the evening 

Press Release from Paphiakos & CCP Animal Welfare Charity

Monday 1st February 2010

Christine Panayiotou, founder of the island’s largest animal welfare charity, was presented last week with the annual Hearts of Gold Award for 2009

She accepted the honour from Savvas Vergas, the Mayor of Paphos, at the Town Hall, saying as she did so that, “This award is not for Christine Panayiotou.This award is for all the staff and supporters of Paphiakos. Thank you for this symbol of respect for our work in this area, which is at last becoming accepted.” 

Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity was founded in 1982, and became a registered charity in 1994. Thus, for over 30 years,Christine has battled,sweet-talked and lobbied for the rights of every kind of animal in Cyprus. Starting at a time in Cypriot history when few, if any, animals were domesticated,a time when people were struggling to feed themselves and  without the resources needed to care for the welfare of non-productive animals, Christine Panayiotou faced an uphill battle.

The same uphill battle continues today and Christine still works tirelessly to gain full recognition and financial support from the  government for the work she carries out 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. As well as her hands-on work at both the  animal welfare clinic and the animal shelter Christine Panayiotou is currently serving her fifth term as an elected member of the Paphos Animal Welfare Committee. In addition to this she liaises with, and works in full co-operation with all the relevant government bodies, something she has been doing for many years.

Christine Panayiotou is adamant that she is not simply an animal collector. Her first, and over-riding, focus is on disease control in animals, birth control in domestic animals and the prevention of any and all unnecessary suffering in any animal, no matter how large or small. Believing that education is the key to the next generation being more responsible towards the welfare of animals Christine has instigated a schools’ education programme. However,money has still to be found to enable the creation of a fully-comprehensive, island-wide education programme for both native Cypriots and the ex-patriot communities.

Christine Panayiotou has always believed that animal welfare should be above religion and politics, with no questions asked about a person’s individual circumstances.This is becoming ever more relevant to the increasingly multi-national make-up of Cyprus today. The Gold Award, the latest in a long line of largely unsung awards made to Christine Panayiotou will be used to good advantage. Her hope is that it will attract sufficient funds to begin, in co-operation with various government bodies, the establishment of a purpose-built animal shelter and for use by the whole country.  At the moment this is still a dream, as is the time when everyone in Cyprus wakes up to the importance of animal welfare within our society.  But with Christine Panayiotou’s determination,  experience and commitment driving it, it will happen