History of A.C.E./SHIN
Fabienne Paques and Ton Vandenbroek established A.C.E./SHIN on 14 December 1999. Together they rented dogshelters in the killingstation El Refugio at Mijas Costa. The dogs who stayed at the dogshelters of A.C.E./SHIN did NOT get the owful deadly injection as usual but were getting care, love and attention which they so longed for.
Her husband Dirk made Polaroid pictures and with him, she went to all the restaurants in the nearby village of La Cala de Mijas, hoping to find adoptive parents who wanted to give a dog a loving home. More and more people got to know Fabiënne and within a small period of time a group of volunteers worked hard to give the dogs from El refugio a better life.
After a while, there was a possibility to rent the whole El refugio and A.C.E./SHIN was born. It grew and grew and Dirk and some volunteers rebuilt and modernized El refugio completely. The unnecessary killing of the dogs on Friday did not happen anymore. The trenches along the road up to the refuge in which lie thousands of dog corpses are closed now. Up to this day all these corpses are still there, as silent witnesses of what took place on every Friday.
The Polaroid pictures were replaced by a beautiful database were potential adopters can find the necessary information about all our dogs. El refugio is getting every day bigger and more modern. The veterinarian has a clinic furnished by sponsors, a quarantine and recovery room, there is a washing room for the dogs to be washed nicely and there is an office where visitors are getting all information by a nice cup of tea.
Nothing reminds us of the fact that El refugio was once a dog pound.
Her husband Dirk made Polaroid pictures and with him, she went to all the restaurants in the nearby village of La Cala de Mijas, hoping to find adoptive parents who wanted to give a dog a loving home. More and more people got to know Fabiënne and within a small period of time a group of volunteers worked hard to give the dogs from El refugio a better life.
After a while, there was a possibility to rent the whole El refugio and A.C.E./SHIN was born. It grew and grew and Dirk and some volunteers rebuilt and modernized El refugio completely. The unnecessary killing of the dogs on Friday did not happen anymore. The trenches along the road up to the refuge in which lie thousands of dog corpses are closed now. Up to this day all these corpses are still there, as silent witnesses of what took place on every Friday.
The Polaroid pictures were replaced by a beautiful database were potential adopters can find the necessary information about all our dogs. El refugio is getting every day bigger and more modern. The veterinarian has a clinic furnished by sponsors, a quarantine and recovery room, there is a washing room for the dogs to be washed nicely and there is an office where visitors are getting all information by a nice cup of tea.
Nothing reminds us of the fact that El refugio was once a dog pound.
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