Company: Houston Secondary Leadership
Administrator: Lyndsey Williams
Date: November 23, 2020 - November 27, 2020
Achievements:
- Experience in event planning
- Working with youth
The Northern Lights Wildlife Society is a non-profit organization located in Smithers, BC. They are a shelter for wild animals who are unable to survive in the wild. To raise money for the organization, we ran several events throughout the last week of November.
The fundraiser that raised the most money sold drinks and baked goods through our High School Concession. I was a part of the planning and ran several events.
"The Founders of the Society, Angelika and Peter Langen immigrated to Canada in 1982. Both trained animal keepers, they had*previously worked in zoos in Germany. After living in Smithers for several years, they became aware of the fact that there was no place for injured and/or orphaned wildlife to go to and that such animals ended up being killed. With great enthusiasm they approached the local wildlife branch only to find out that re-wilding programs were met with great uneasiness by the government. After years of discussions and formulating permits, their dream finally became true in 1989.
At first the shelter was used very reluctantly by the authorities. But as first success became apparent and as the public became aware of the shelter's existence, the demands on the shelter grew rapidly. With the Langen's covering most of the costs and almost all of the work involved, the shelter soon reached dimensions that required a new approach in order to secure adequate housing and care for the
animals in need. As a result the Northern Lights Wildlife Society was formed in 2001 and in 2002 the Society became a registered charity."