Flag Officer Fleet and staff support Tears for 67 minutes Article and photos by Cdr C. Pratten Enquiries: 021 787 4697

The personal staff to Flag Officer Fleet undertook a visit to TEARS (The Emma Animal Rescue Society) to help with handy-work in and around their Masiphumelele premises on 18 July 2012. The maintenance work included painting the animal clinic, gardening, walking the dogs, folding blankets as well as washing hundreds of dog bowls in time for the next feeding.

Fleet Staff and Management and Renewal Services (Fleet Command) posing for a quick photo

TEARS is a Pro-life, non-profit organisation whose core aim is to rescue, rehabilitate, re-unite and re-home lost, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs and cats. The facility currently has approximately 100 dogs that are waiting to be adopted by loving families. The Flag Officer Fleet team strongly supports this organisation and the work they are doing in the local community and encourage all naval members to do the same.

Mrs Havenga, Ms Jamieson, Mrs Spreeth, Sea Ndamani and Ms Wridgeway folding blankets and towels. They were re-organsing the container	Ms Hendricks, LS Gammage and LS Dillon cleaning up the garden
R Adm (JG) Jamieson painting the inside of the animal clinic	R Adm Schoultz and Capt Strydom removing unwanted gash

Sub Lt Ndukwana painting the outside of the aminal clinic