The event will be held at Andara Resort & Villas in Kamala, and is priced at B3,000, including a buffet dinner and free flow drinks, including 6-7pm cocktails. The party starts at 7pm.
There are prizes for the best dressed and DJ Ben Jay will provide entertainment. There will also be a midnight celebration to mark the official anniversary date – October 13.
Sponsors for this event include The Phuket News and Live 89.5, Andara Resort & Villas, Soneva Kiri and Pink Shrimp Yachting.
Funds raised from the event will go toward the new Soi Dog Foundation animal hospital.
SDF was founded in 2003 by Margot Homburg Park and John and Gill Dalley. Witnessing the suffering endured by street animals on Phuket, John, Gill and Margot started clinics using volunteer vets from overseas. Margot retired in 2006 due to ill health.
SDF President John Dalley said, “It has been an incredible 10 years of highs and lows, but we believe SDF’s place as Thailand’s leading dog and cat rescue organisation is firmly established.”
SDF has received several awards for its work, including Gill Dalley being named the first non-Asian by birth to be awarded an Asian of the Year award in 2009. In 2005, SDF became the first society of its type to be granted official foundation status in Thailand. It is now a registered foundation in six countries. In 2008 the Mai Khao shelter was built.
In early May, SDF reached the significant milestone of sterilising its 50,000th animal (dogs and cats) since starting in late 2003 (52,238 as of July, 2013).
Named as Southeast Asia’s fastest growing animal charity, Soi Dog Foundation also operates in Bangkok and through mobile clinics in southern Thailand with a target of sterilising 15,000 animals per year.
Mr Dalley said the Foundation hoped at its current rate to have sterilised 100,000 animals in around three years time. In its first year SDF neutered just over 1,000 animals.
“The current mobile clinic programme on Phuket, working closely with the province’s local authorities, aims to have the island’s stray population under control in two years and to continue the province’s rabies free status,” Mr Dalley said.
SDF is also discussing with the Department of Livestock in Bangkok introducing a national programme based on SDF’s activities on Phuket. Thailand has pledged to eradicate rabies by 2020 in accordance with ASEAN agreements.
In recent years SDF has also taken a leading role against the illegal and cruel dog meat trade in Thailand through its “Trade of Shame” campaign. SDF has provided food, vaccines and other drugs to help care for dogs intercepted and sent to shelters in Thailand. This work continues.
The trade to Vietnam is currently at a standstill and discussions are being held with the governments of Vietnam and Laos to finally end the incredibly cruel trade.
The Foundation currently employs 36 full time vets and other staff members, including dog catchers and shelter personnel, almost all of them from Phuket.
Management continues to be carried out by volunteers at their own expense both on Phuket and around the world, ensuring all funds go directly to helping the animals.
Many dogs at the Mai Khao shelter receive treatment for wounds and injuries. Soi Dog only keeps and re-homes dogs that have been subject to cruelty and abuse and therefore cannot be returned to the same situation.
For more details about the event contact Cristy Baker on suaysiam@gmail.com.