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ANIMAL ASSOCIATES

New York * South Carolina * Florida

ANIMAL ASSOCIATES

a club for kids & teens who care.

Founder & President, Darcie Hancock

* caring * comes * from * your * heart

"Abondoned animals are not throw-aways or trash; these animals can be saved"

My name is Darcie Hancock, I'm 16 and founder and president of Animal Associates.

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this site proves kids and teens can help or form organizations, we are not too young! ...Darcie

                                 

In 2001, the club started out as an idea  to becoming a widely known kids organization that has raised over $ 3,800 in cash, supplies and memorials.

Other links to ANIMAL ASSOCIATES below

http://animalassociates.s5.com

http://animalassociatesclub.s5.com/photo6.html

2001, THE BEGINNING

Don't forget to visit our viewing site to view all our newspaper clippings to see how far Animal Associates has come over the years. Read all the letters the young members have written to different  newspapers.

VIEWING SITE LINK

http://animalassociatesclub.s5.com/photo6.html

 

 To see Sammi, Lexy, Megan, Jose, Keila, James, Katy, Kristie, and Darcie...

 visit the WATER-LITTER PROJECT 2006 website

http://animalassociates.s5.com

 

A new project that actually started by chance event where some of us clean up litter from trenches and streams. The garbage others throw hurts and destroys the animals that live there. Removing the litter also cleans up the environment.

 

Jose is a potent leader and a concerned boy who cares to keep gargage out of ditches in his area. .

Jose is anxious to work every day cleaning out debris and litter from the stream and ditches.We have made great progress in this project being very careful not to run into some of our many poison snakes that live close by.

I have made a lot of progress with this project, and it is fun working with these kids. They have so much energy for this. They wait each day for me until I get home from work to 'clean up'.

http://animalassociates.s5.com

DEC 2, 2006 

THE WATER-LITTER PROJECT WAS GIVEN A CONSERVATION  AWARD BY THE CONSERVATION GROUP, WOODSMEN OF THE WORLD IN MURRELLS INLET, SC. THE PLAQUE IS A WOODEN ENGRAVED PLAQUE. JOSE, KEILA, AND I ACCEPTED THE AWARD AT DINNER.

I am also a volunteer with another project with the Waccamaw River. Read more about this.

http://www.coastal.edu/envsci/vm_project.html

 

 

The Sun News of Myrtle Beach came and interviewed Jose, Megan, Kaila and I for an article for the paper.They all made me proud! You can see this article on the viewing site (above).

Animal Associates Board Members

 

ANIMAL ASSOCIATES PRESIDENT, DARCIE, 

 NEW YORK VICE-PRESIDENT

Jenna,age 12

NEW YORK HOLLEY DIRECTOR

Dakota,age 10

SOUTH CAROLINA JR. VICE PRESIDENT and

Water-Litter Project Project  Leader 

Jose Calderon 

KEILA CALDERON,   SOUTH CAROLINA JR. Vice

President, Water-Litter Project Supervisor

 

Our new mailing address is:

PO Box 15931

Myrtle Beach, SC  29587-5931

 

 

Visit my page Darcie -  President, to read about me and my life.

http://animalassociates.freeservers.com/photo2.html

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Visit Jennas page,  Vice President,  to read  about her.

http://animalassociates.freeservers.com/whats_new.html

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Visit Dakotas page, Holley NY Director, to read  about him.

http://animalassociates.freeservers.com/custom4.html

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Visit Megans Page to read about her.

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 Visit Samanthas page to read about her and her interests

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Read more about Darcie and Animal Associates  at these sites:

 

some websites Animal Associates are on

History in the Making

http.historyinthemaking.com

(Click history in the making, find Darcie)

Parents and Teens

 

http://parentsandteens.com

(Click teen scene, then teen helps abused animals)

Home Schooled Teens

http://homeschoolingteens.com

AMAZING KIDS

http://www.amazing-kids.org/kids.html

for amazing kids-month of May 2004

HUMANE TEEN

HUMANE TEEN http://www.humaneteen.org/clubs_action.html

KIDS IN THE NEWS ZONE

http://www.tnkidszone.com/KidsNewsZone/kidsnews_zone.htm

TEEN VOICES MAGAZINE

http://teenvoices.com/tvhome.html


OUR GOALS:

 To help other kids who want to help animals or are told they are to young to volunteer. We want to help animals, the ones who have no voice, and  raise money to donate to non-profit animal organizations. We want to educate others about  cruelty and neglect of animals, and how real the abuse is.
We want kids to know there are many things they can do to help.

Remember, always let your parents know what you are doing.

Animal Associates work as a team, makes decisions together as much as possible,  decides what fundraisers are going to happen, and  where the proceeds will go. With distance among many members, at times we decide through phone, E-mail, word of mouth, or letters.

Any member at any time is able to contact other members with ideas. Supporting each other is team work. Lets put our heads together, there is power in numbers.

Club Words to live by:

 Each member is unique in his or her own way. Each member is to be respected as a person by other members, and high morals are expected of every member. Animal Associates is not a popularity contest, or a race to see who can set up the most car washes. It is an opportunity for kids & teens to raise money to  benefit the animals. And to experience the emotions of being able to make  a difference, earn money for animals, and volunteer.


THINGS WE DO:

We write letters to the Editor of our local newspaper. The goal is to raise awareness of animal abuse, or just to tell them what our thoughts are or keep them informed of our fund-raisers.

We called banks and business's and told then who we were, a bit about our club and our goals, and we asked them if we could borrow their lot and water hose to hold a car wash. We told them where our proceeds would go. We set a date, made posters and told everybody we knew about the car wash.

We called business's and asked them if they could donates products for us to raffle off. We recieved many things, including gift cards,  Six Flag tickets, we  had a raffle.

By this time, the local people knew who we were because of our letter writing. This helped us get the public support or knowledge we needed.

Have an adult with you at all times.


In October of 2003 a very special woman passed away and had her memorials left to Animal Associates. Read all about Vivian Duttwieller on Vivian's page. Click the tab at the top of this page.



 

 

CLUB MEMBERS

    

  Tonisia Longhini, NY, 13 

 Sarah Scott, NY, 13

  ME-Darcie Hancock, SC 16 

   Jenna Edenholm-Cox, NY, 12

  Dakota Chilson, NY,11   

   Brittany Esparza, NY, 11  

Brittany Smith, NY, 12     

Rachael Bozer, NY, 16

Destiney Gaiser, NY, 15

Megan Huggins, SC, age 10

Jose Calderon, SC, age 12

Kaila Caldron, SC age 11

Valerie, SC age 15

Taylor, SC age 11

Samantha Wannop , Florida, age 12

Some members have chosen to have their own page, this is optional. Any member is able to obtain their page, send us your bio and photo.

We welcome you to join our quest and fight to help and protect animals, and to raise money to help them.  You are welcome to attend  the ice cream parties or camp outs  the club has (optional, just a way to meet other members or friends and have fun) , or a couple fundraisers a year, or even taking 5 minutes to sit down and write a letter is what we strive for. Even one letter can speak a thousand words. 

Even 1 hour helping animals, is one hour wisely spent. It can speak a thousand words.

 

An animals cry for help can be a hard thing to pass by.  

 


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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