THE
ZOO NEWZ
The
Lion’s Roar, A Laura Simms Community and Compassion
Initiative Saving
Animals in Need and
Changing the story a community tells about
itself
November 10, 2005
Dear friends,
I am writing with an urgent
request to help me feed seven lions in the zoo that I am saving in
the North of Romania. Due to bureaucratic problems, financial
devastation and ignorance, the sponsors that have given meat to the
lions in our zoo have halved their donation. The winter in
Romania is harsh. We have seven lions who are hungry. Children
come to the zoo crying to say that they hear the howls of the lions
in the morning and want to help.
Over two hundred
children visit our zoo every week. It is the only entertainment that
provokes compassion, enthusiasm and education in the poor city of
Buhusi. Many proposals are with the European Union, the European Zoo
Association, corporations and private donors, but none will provide
basic sustenance for the lions this winter.
If we can feed the
lions, they will survive to have a new environment in the summer.
They were all born into captivity in one way or another. We will
witness them walk on grass for the first time.
For the past
months they have been receiving excellent medicine and nutritional
supplements, have had clean cages, and new platforms and some quality
of life in their dismal concrete cages. To read more about their
sensitivity and behavior please wait for our next Zoo Newz coming
shortly!
The situation for the lions is deeply troubling,
yet they maintain a magnificence and dignity that is heartrending. I
need an overall $5000. I dread watching them starve to death.
All donations large or small are extremely helpful. If I can can
raise this money it will save their lives. It will also
strengthen the very fragile hope of the community that cares so much
for them. Daily, individuals, who are themselves often without food,
offer small amounts of food and pennies to help the zoo, but
obviously seven lions can not live on care alone. We are certain -
and have already witnessed the effects - that by saving the animals,
a mirror of the helplessness in the city, we are renewing the heart
of the community as well.
All donations are tax deductible.
We will put up photos of the lions in a slide show on my website so
you can see them. Please write checks to THE UNITY PROJECT and
mark it for The Lion's Roar. Send to:
The Unity Project: The
Lion's Roar
c/o Laura Simms
814 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New
York, NY 10003
USA
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I am writing with an urgent
request to help me feed seven lions in the zoo that I am saving in
the North of Romania. Due to bureaucratic problems, financial
devastation and ignorance, the sponsors that have given meat to the
lions in our zoo have halved their donation. The winter in
Romania is harsh. We have seven lions who are hungry. Children
come to the zoo crying to say that they hear the howls of the lions
in the morning and want to help.
All donations large or small are extremely helpful. If I can can
raise this money it will save their lives. It will also
strengthen the very fragile hope of the community that cares so much
for them. Daily, individuals, who are themselves often without food,
offer small amounts of food and pennies to help the zoo, but
obviously seven lions can not live on care alone. We are certain -
and have already witnessed the effects - that by saving the animals,
a mirror of the helplessness in the city, we are renewing the heart
of the community as well. 
