About us

ROLDA Suisse was set up by a group of Swiss animal lovers, led by the celebrity animal activist Lolita Morena. The purpose of the association is to generate awareness and support for the Romanian animals and for the poor communities struggling to look after their pets responsibly.

Full legal name:
Association ROLDA Suisse

Other names:
ROLDA Suisse

Incorporation year:
2014

Visit ROLDA Suisse website here

Contact person:
Michele (President)

Phone number:
+41 79 606 49 79

Mailing address:
Rue des Grands-Proz 2A, 1957 Ardon

Email:
scribars@gmail.com

How Swiss supporters help us:

Enable rescued dogs to receive medical assistance, sheltering while in Romania and to be adopted abroad (including in Switzerland)

Cover the sterilizations and other emergencies vet costs for pets (dogs and cats) from poor communities

Find reliable homes for rescued #roldadogs which are visited periodically by Swiss team

Visit September 2021

Cover calendar 2022

Making of Calendar 2017

Cover calendar 2021

Adopters Day June 2015

Visit June 2020

Manifestation Geneva against killing Romanian dogs

Lolita first visit in Romania November 2013

Karma

First stamp dedicated to Romanian animals in Switzerland 2014

Painting exposition artist Muriel Oct 2014

Cara adopted by Alain Morisod in Switzerland March 2014

Lolita visit Swiss Ambassador in Bucharest

Yelena Swiss volunteer visit September 2014

Other activities include:

  • Buy dog houses to protect dogs from poor communities against extreme weather
  • Organize transport of donated supplies to ROLDA shelters
  • Organize street protests in Geneve against killing of dogs in Romania
  • Create a post stamp with a Romanian dog’s portrait approved by Post Suisse
  • Attend meetings with ArcelorMittal representatives
  • Meet H.E. Ambassador of Switzerland in Bucharest and also accompany his family to ROLDA shelters
  • Reunite groups of volunteer visitors from Switzerland to visit regularly the ROLDA shelters
  • Create partnership with Swiss Animal Protection and several other grant makers

Some past fundraising included

Replacing the rescue van crashed in an accident

Sponsor food delivered to dogs from poor rural communities

Pay the renovation costs for small shelter cottage

Sponsor education campaigns in schools from the villages

Help during flood – emergency aid like blankets and food (for people and animals)

Sponsor the cost of a green barrier around the large shelter (by planting hundreds of acacia trees to protect shelter against snow storms, in the same time protect nearby human habitats against noise)

What we do for Swiss supporters:

  • Opportunity to adopt a healthy, beautiful, sociable dog rescued from streets or saved from a local public shelter. See conditions here & Read also testimonials from other adopters.
  • Opportunity to be part of our team as a volunteer (in case you’d like to put your best skills at use for animals in need and for a charity that use resources to save them) or as an ambassador (to share news about ROLDA on social media or to wear items that we send you for free)

Some of #roldadogs adopted in Switzerland

Money sent by ROLDA Suisse for Romanian projects

2022

January
22000 EUR

grant private foundation, calendars sale, donations

March
13000 EUR

grant SAP, donations for Ukraine

April
19500 EUR

grant SAP, grant private foundation, donations for Ukraine, donations for Romanian dogs

May
4000 EUR

grant SAP, donations

2021

69000 EUR Decreased with 31% compared with 2020 – SAP & other grant makers, private donations, sale calendar, memberships, adoption fees, sponsorships

food and medicines, emergency aid, sterilizations, repairs, adoptions costs, winter shelter costs

2020

99500 EUR SAP, GRANTS, PRIVATE DONATIONS, MEMBERSHIP, SPONSORSHIP, ADOPTION FEES

sterilizations, adoptions costs, general costs for the shelter

2019

95730 EUR SAP, GRANTS, PRIVATE DONATIONS, ADOPTION FEES, MEMBERSHIP, SPONSORSHIP, GALA FUNDRAISING

new rescue van, sterilizations, senior event, dogs transport,general costs for the shelter

2018

73581 EUR SAP, GRANTS, DONATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS, SPONSORSHIPS

cottage repair, sterilizations, senior event, adoptions costs, general costs for the shelter

2017

53000 EUR SAP GRANT, BANK TRANSFER, GALA DONATIONS

cottage repair, sterilizations, adoptions costs, general costs for the shelter

2016

32400 EUR SAP, DONATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS, SPONSORSHIPS

sterilizations, adoptions costs, general costs for the shelter

2015

26220 EUR SAP, DONATIONS, SPONSORSHIPS

sterilizations, adoptions costs, general costs for the shelter

TRANSPARENCY TEST

See ROLDA’s latest Annual Report

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FINANCIAL REPORT

See the Financial Report of ROLDA Romania

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Source of funding from Switzerland to Romania

  • Adoption fees
  • Sponsorships
  • Grants
  • Sale calendar
  • Private donation
  • Memberships
  • Adoption fees
  • Sponsorships
  • Grants

Making of Calendar 2015

ROLDA Board meeting April 2015

Public event November 2014

Adopters Day Switzerland June 2015

Visit Swiss team February 2015

Swiss team visit October 2014

Gala AtoutCoeur with Swiss celebrities and supporters November 2015

Philip

ROLDA Soiree de soutien May 2019

Adopted Switzerland

Mirko Rochat at ROLDA Suisse Gala

Lolita and Mirko at ROLDA Soiree de soutien November 2017

ROLDA Suisse Magazines

All ROLDA Suisse members receive our association’s printed magazines, twice per year. For an annual membership fee of 30.- Swiss Francs you’ll receive in your post beautiful quality magazines, two times each year, describing most recent events and projects of ROLDA in Romania. We remind you that our association functions 100% thanks to Swiss volunteers, who raise funds and logistics to sustain a number of long-term projects, focusing on the most disadvantaged regions of Romania, aiming to improve the welfare of animals as well as the lives of the people living near them.

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Some videos created by ROLDA Suisse

How Swiss supporters can make a gift to ROLDA?

Send a check

Association ROLDA Suisse
c/o Michele Pradervand Mooser
Rue des Grands-Proz 2A
1957 Ardon

Bank account details

IBAN: CH47 8080 8001 2548 90198
CCP: 17-237-8
Bank: Raiffeisen Moleson
Address: 1628 Vuadens

Legacy for animals

Your love for animals can last forever when you make a gift to ROLDA in your will

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Donate by PayPal

Login into your PayPal account and make a donation to this email address
roldadogs@gmail.com

Alternatively, click on this link
https://PayPal.me/SaveStrays

ROLDA’s founder invites you to find out how we started and why

On behalf of ROLDA, we extend huge thanks to #LolitaMorena for supporting ROLDA’s values and work. The relationship started in 2011 when Dana Costin (ROLDA CEO and Founder) met Lolita at a ROLDA conference in Switzerland. Lolita was involved with our charity ever since. She visited ROLDA shelters on multiple occasions. She helped tirelessly to fight against innocent dogs kill when the Romanian government initiated and legally allowed a mass euthanization of stray dogs in a mindless attempt to control the stray dog population in Romania. With Lolita’s help, many homeless dogs from ROLDA shelters found new homes in Switzerland which led to us establishing a rehoming network -Association ROLDA Suisse. Helping animal lovers able to and willing to adopt a homeless dog. We hope this adoption network that started from this relationship with Lolita, will become a path for a new life for many more homeless dogs.

My best wishes to you,

Dana

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Meet ROLDA Suisse great team

AL

Board Member

LOLITA

Board Member

MICHELE

President

Volunteers (alphabetic order)

Caroline

Denis

Felix

Martine

Nathalie

Vanessa

Testimonials

Dana, I want to tell you such a big thank you for your kindness. You do such an inspiring job for all those dogs. I’m feeling so blessed to have experienced that in Galati Romania and I’m completely for your cause. Sending your best greetings and take care of you and all those sweet dogs.

Laure

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