Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Animal Aid Abroad High Tea coming soon! :)


I would like to say thanks to Janet Thomas for letting me work with Animal Aid Abroad. Animal Aid Abroad is a non-profit organization which works to improve the conditions and treatment of working animals around the world. It was started in 2007; Perth, Australia by Janet Thomas and their first project was in Alexandria, Egypt. They have started to expand their operation in some countries such as India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Israel, Tanzania, Thailand and recently in Indonesia.  AAA projects are aimed to help working animals including horses, mules, donkeys, camels, elephants, fogs and bullocks. These animals suffer because of overwork and are also underfed, mistreated, and appallingly undervalued.  For more information about AAA I would like to invite everyone to visit

My job this time is to help out with the event, High Tea in 18 of August 2013. The event will be held in Joondalup Resort from 1pm until 5pm.  It is a perfect opportunity to get together with some friends while enjoying the best view of Joondalup Resorts poolside. It is not only that, you have a chance to help abused and neglected working animals at the same time.



Public relation plays an important role for gaining public attention/awareness and it will definitely help non-profit organization as PR offers low budget. My first task was to promote the event with very limited budget. I preferred to put most of information online because it would not cost so much. Facebook, twitter and some of advertising websites are good sources to promote the event. I also put some flyers at some places and tried to send some media releases. The good news all the tickets are sold out. Thanks everyone for your support! 

This is one of the best opportunities for me to learn about how the event will run. AAA have arranged some events throughout the year to raise some funds and to increase awareness of people about what they do and why. This time AAA high tea will be about celebrating AAA works so far and to get more people's awareness about the projects that have been running.

There are many people who are not well informed about the projects and about those animals’ conditions.  There are animals who are still suffering a lot and they need a lot of support.  Therefore, the high tea will give opportunity for people to show their support and to change those lives from unfortunate into fortunate. :) It is a positive course for sure.

I love working with AAA because it is my passion. I love animals and one of my dreams is to help those unfortunate animals. I was born in a country where animals are still unfortunate.  This is why I want to help them and through AAA I have a chance to make a big difference.  Of course, if you love job, you will do your best and so do I.  :)


Working with a non-profit has a lot of benefits especially when you start your career. I have met a lot of amazing people and got to know them on how they manage the organization. Most of them are full time workers but they have put so much effort in the organization.  It is not easy to run an organization when you do not have much time. But, AAA has been doing well so far because they have a lot of amazing people to work with. 

Well, working with AAA has not only given me opportunity to learn about organization but also a chance to change the world! By working with AAA, you will get the best feeling ever because you will save so many lives.  Those animals deserve better life and we definitely could help them.  :) I am glad to get involve with this organization.

Because we are going to run an auction for the high tea, my other task is to find some stuffs that can be used for the auction.  I have met awesome people who were happy to donate for this cause.  Probably if you have something that you do not use anymore, you can donate it to us too. Why not! It is an amazing opportunity for you to change the world.  It means so much for us and those animals! :) You can contact me through email: debbiesatyawaty.1991@gmail.com or call me on 0430166607.  Thank you. . Looking forward for next month’s event!

2 comments:

Marli said...

Hi Debbie,

It’s great to hear that you are completing your internship at an international not-for-profit organisation that you are passionate about.

I agree that promoting the event online is the most cost-effective approach. Whilst at my internship, I adopted a similar strategy – primarily promoting my objectives through social media forums such as Facebook and Twitter. Such forums allowed me to reach my target audience directly and the frequency of my posts ensured key messages remained at the forefront of people’s minds. I’m curious to know however, what forms of advertising websites did you use?
It’s great to hear that the tickets sold out, your efforts paid off!

- Marli

Unknown said...

Hi Marli,

I mostly used twitter and facebook. I found it really effective. It saves time and money for sure. However, i also used gumtree as it did not cost much and it really suited our budget. Other than that, i tried to promote the event by using flyers. In this case, i need to go outside the workplace to meet the target public directly. I also left some flyers in some public places like cafe, shop, and etc.