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The building of the barn started in 2019 and the steel frame and roof erected with a clear plan and adequate funding.

The barn would become a safe space to house our special needs animals, as well as offer facilities to generate funding for the Sanctuary. There would also be accommodation for our Animal Care Manager and volunteers. Once this was already in full swing, COVID and lockdown struck the globe. The price of steel trebled as foundries struggled to reignite their furnaces after lockdown and we effectively used our entire budget to finish the steel frame and roof. The project was halted so that the Sanctuary could weather lockdown as resources were redirected towards animal care and day to day. The structure stands incomplete, and is now underutilized as shelter for our oldest sheep, as well as storage for our hay bales used for the animal pens and as building material.

Besides the day to day and animal care facilities the barn will provide, there will also be a 1st floor that has office space to support our two community outreach programmes, ‘Pigs to Plants’ Farm Transitions, and ‘Teaching the Teachers’ Humane Education training. There will also be a communal work space for digital nomads and conferencing space for workshops, retreats, events and other income generating activities.

We will be focusing a lot of effort into raising the funds to complete our barn with a variety of initiatives that we hope you can get excited about and support!

We are so grateful to Foundation Marchig who have pledged $10 000 towards the medical facilities in the barn, so we are on our way, and need all the help we can get to raise the rest.

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