They save horses that go to slaughter. For 24 years, the Tara Foundation has been precipitated by a knife offering money for the lives of animals. It is Righteous Among the Nations except that from animals, because do animals have no feelings?

At the Polish horse fair there is a fight for their dignity and life. Horses that have managed to save from the masonry industry are given lifelong freedom in Tara shelter. In addition to limited redemption opportunities, the Foundation fights for the conditions under which trade and breeding of horses take place. It also influences protests and petitions to restrict trade in horse slaughter in Poland.

There are currently 162 horses, two donkeys, cows, pigs, sheep and goats in Tara shelter. Horses from all over Poland are also sent to the shelter by court order for inadequate care of the owner.

The Tara Foundation is currently the only one of the few active foundations in Poland. In my opinion, the remaining half a thousand foundations are façade organizations, it is difficult to determine their activity due to the lack of response to the attempted contact.

The Tara is one of the only horse shelters in Poland with such an advanced nature of fighting for animal rights. It is part of the European Animal Parliamentary Club and an important point on the map of Europe, although it is not very durable when we look at the history of this organisation.

The current headquarters in Piskorzyna Winsko is the fourth place after forced removals. The current place is paradoxically acquired from the local office of the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture, an abandoned animal husbandry facility. It was not easy, because two nearby massacres applied for this object. It was not without forced clerical corruption and blackmail directed towards the foundation. This reality is very far from the myth of ideals that Europe prides itself on. Currently, the 26 hectare farm is owned by a foundation, but there is no guarantee that the current government will not change the rules that take over the farm for commercial purposes. So he plans to do it with the state forests. Because everything can be sold.

The founder of poland’s first horse shelter is the charismatic woman Mrs. Skarlett Carmen Szylogalis Jankowiak. The intricacy with the name, Skarlett explains the origins of the lines of the former Lithuanian princes. She does not have a heraldic coat of arms but tattooed on her hand number 269. What is a number? In 2013, anonymous Israeli activists rescued a calf from slaughter and a photo of it was published on the Internet. The calf had a tag at the 269 at his his mind. Behind the photo was information that sparked protests against the killing of young animals (animal children), not only in Israel but also in other countries. No. 269, is a symbol of survival and has also become a symbol of the struggle for animal rights.

Ms. Skarlett is full of sensitivity and with a firm handshake emphasizes her approach to the world. “There’s no gray in my life,” Scarlett says, her personal story is waves of victories and failures. She has loved animals since she was a child, and already then she knew that she would have horses for her friends, though not in such a form and with such self-sacrifice. Today, Ms. Scarlett is the heart of Tara’s foundation, but she is unable to manage it herself.

Volunteers and employees who maintain a daily organization in the foundation give great support. Volunteers and employees who maintain a daily organization in the foundation give great support. Such persons include Ms. Iwona. If Scarlett is Tara’s heart then Iwona is her mind and right hand. Ms. Iwona has been working here for 10 years, she wears a T-shirt that says “stop slaughterhouses for horses” and is one of the best PR’s I’ve ever met. She used to ride horses, but at the foundation she realized that love for horses is completely different.

New animals are still coming to the foundation and interestingly also imported from outside Poland. Some are stolen from the hands of tormentors. It is an awkward illegality, but motivated by the most precious of human feelings, which is empathy.

Every year, on the last week of August at the Tara Foundation, there is a meeting of godparents, that is, such a meeting of all those who have adopted a pet in the shelter and remotely take care of it by making some donations. Here everyone can have their horse without having a stable and knowing how to look after it. This is a great idea for the animal “Jad Vashem”, the only thing I missed is the involvement of companies that have a horse symbol in their brand logo. Why don’t they engage in building social respect for their brand?

It is worth asking the fundamental question, why all this? Why this effort to maintain the center, why this struggle to change the attitude of man to animals? Isn’t that some hippy frills? But the answer comes very quickly. Because there is more God here in the Foundation than in the church, and if you want to see him, he is right here among the horses and other animals that got a real chance from people to live a dignified life. (Brux)

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