ADANA - Estepona - Association for the rights of abandoned animals

Welcome to ADANA's website.

ADANA (Association for the Rights of Abandoned Animals) is an animal charity on the Costa del Sol run by volunteers. Our aims are to promote love and affection for animals, to provide facilities for the shelter and care of abandoned, sick and injured animals whilst seeking new homes for them and to assist the local authorities with such animals. ADANA never puts down a healthy animal.

We operate an animal shelter, on property owned by the local government and run by ADANA employees and volunteers.

We also operate a second hand shop in Estepona, and a stall at the Sunday market in Sabinillas, run by volunteers.

ADANA Dog Show - 13 May 2012

Dog Show Breaks All Records

In spite of warm sunshine, other public events taking place in Estepona and the worsening economic climate, ADANA’s annual dog show, held in the Estepona Palacio, thanks to the Ayuntamiento of Estepona, broke all records for both attendance and entries to the various competitions and most importantly, money raised to help care for the large number of dogs looked after at the ADANA Perrera in the Parque de los Pedregales.

Big Band Concert - 24 Mar 2012

On 24th March The King's Bruton Big Band gave a concert for ADANA in Estepona. It seems no matter how hard we try we always end up with multiple clashes and this was no exception. We had The Sound of Music - The International Theatre Studio's latest offering - and an inordinate number of birthday parties on the same night but we managed a reasonable crowd.

The band is amazing. Composed of school students between the ages of 14 and 18 they show a poise and professionalism much beyond their years. Four vocalists and a band of 20 players soon had the audience on their feet and dancing to the sounds of Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller.

A New Year's message from the ADANA President

The year 2011 has been a mixed one for ADANA - like the proverbial Curate's Egg, good in parts.

To start with the not-so-good things:

No doubt because of the crisis the number of dogs in our perrera has increased to almost two hundred. It is becoming increasingly difficult to provide adequate accommodation for such a large number and inevitably fights and fatalities result.

AGM - 10 Apr 2012

ADANA held its Annual General Meeting on April 10th at the Estepona Football Stadium.

Members were delighted to hear that ADANA President Maria Cawsey was able to report a very successful year for the organisation. She told the meeting that the charity's financial position was steadily improving and that since August there had been a marked increase in the number of dog adoptions.

'We have succeeded in building bridges and making new links with rehoming organisations in Germany and Holland as well as increasing the number of dogs rehomed locally here in the Estepona area', said Maria. 'This is of course a result of the hard work of our Adoptions Officer, Helen Ellis. Our many kennel volunteers also do sterling work cleaning the pens and grooming and walking our dogs'.

Guadalmina Charity Bridge Day

Our thanks go to Trisha Mansfield and the Guadalmina Charity Bridge Day which took place on 4 March 2012 and which raised €940, plus €79.56 from the Marbella Bridge Club hucha. A separate auction on 8 March 2012 of golf green fees and other items was held which raised a further €605, a grand total of €1,624.56.

The fundraising events were masterminded by Trisha Mansfield who organizes the café/bar at the Dog show/Christmas Fair/Jazz concert and supported by many volunteers who folded raffle tickets, poured champagne and made sandwiches and cakes for the 40 bridge players who supported the event. There were many generous donations of prizes for the competition and the raffle and all the items auctioned were also donated.

Thanks to all involved in raising this impressive sum from all at ADANA, both human and canine!!

Christmas Raffle Winners 2011

If you are holding a 2011 Raffle Ticket shown in the following list and have not received your prize or been notified of your win, can you please contact the person you purchased the ticket(s) from or Contact our Fund Raiser Helen Oldfield on 952 800 933.