#WeSupportArk: Fourways Review and local businesses unite to help Ark Animal Centre

For the second year in a row, the Fourways Review has lent a helping hand to Ark Animal Centre, based in Chartwell, in a #WeSupportArk initiative.

This year, the Fourways Review stepped up efforts in not only calling on the community to support the centre and drop off much-needed items for the pups and the charity shop, but for local businesses to get involved too. By booking adverts in the publication’s paper and online Nelson Mandela International Day feature, local businesses supported the centre and a portion of their booking fee went towards buying dog food. And the support was so tremendous that the Fourways Review was able to hand over many bags to the centre … and the donations keep pouring in.

Businesses who would still like to contribute to this cause can still advertise, contact Samantha (samanthas@caxton.co.za).

Likewise, those advertisers who booked in the Fourways Review feature to support Ark, booked in the Midrand Reporter too to lend a helping hand to the Midrand SPCA in our sister publication’s #WeSupportMidrandSPCA initiative.

And while the Fourways Review team certainly spent some time bonding with the pups at the centre, much of the day was also spent assisting Ark in paving some of the picnic spots.

Here, the centre’s Tracy Otto tells our journalist, Andrei van Wyk, what the plans for the picnic areas are:

The Fourways Review‘s journalists alongside the Midrand Reporter‘s journalists and Caxton Local Media’s Joburg North branch’s sales reps got to work paving a lovely area overlooking a body of water on the property.

Other community members also got involved and paved other picnic areas:

Fourways Review‘s initiative with Ark Animal Centre this year builds on our Mandela Day efforts last year during which the publication called on the community to support the launch of the charity shop which has since been named, Ark’s Attic.

Caxton Local Media’s Joburg North branch group editor, Daniella Potter chats to Stacey Lobley about the success of the charity shop over the past year and how the community and local business can still contribute to the centre:

Meanwhile, here’s how the Midrand Reporter spent a rewarding time handing over dog food to the Midrand SPCA:

WATCH: Local businesses show tremendous support for Midrand Reporter’s #WeSupportMidrandSPCA initiative

The Sandton Chronicle and the Rosebank Killarney Gazette, meanwhile, united to paint classrooms for Nelson Mandela International Day at the Sunshine Centre in Craighall. Check out photos from the day here.