A New Venture for GIN      Last year the trustees decided that we should do something special to mark our 10^th Anniversary. We can all take pride in what we have achieved.  Since GIN started   several thousand beautiful galgos, who would otherwise have been left to a horrible fate, have been rescued and rehomed with loving families all over Europe.  GIN’s example has been followed as a number of other galgo rescue groups have sprung up in Spain and Europe, working like us to rescue and rehome abandoned galgos.    These are achievements worth celebrating! Rather than wasting money on a celebration party, we were determined to do something of lasting benefit to these long-suffering dogs.   We have long realised that the best way to change attitudes in Spain is to start with schoolchildren.  After all, every child starts off loving   animals and, as other charities working abroad have found, if you teach a child to care for animals they will do so for the rest of their lives and, eventually, pass compassionate feelings on to their own children. So we have decided that we should try to set up an education             programme in Spanish primary schools.  Of course, this is a huge under- taking in a country as vast as Spain and we realise only too well that we can only start in a very small way and hope to plant seeds which will take root and spread.  But, after all, every humanitarian movement has started with a handful of people and often become successful on a much wider stage.  Indeed, we have seen our own charity grow quite quickly from the lone efforts of our founder, Anne Finch, to become a real force for good amongst abused animals. The preparation of teaching materials is a highly specialised skill and so we  decided to enlist the help of an experienced firm of educational consultants, who have worked in this field for major animal welfare charities.       6