Welcome  letter, Conference Chair 

                                                         Prof. Vasiliki Leventakou

 

                                                    Welcome to the 1st International Conference  

                                                            ‘’ Stray Paws Awareness Care’’ (SPAC)

 

 

 

                                                When wars, diseases, hunger and poverty

                                                       make humans struggle to survive,

                                                 why deal with the suffering of the animals?
 

 

 

In our world man has overestimated his power towards other species

in nature, believing that the law of the strongest is valid and applies.

 

But this is the law of surviving in the jungle.

Is this the jungle that man envisions to evolve as a species?

 

If the society we are seeking, allow tolerance in abuse of the animals,

then we accept abuse as a concept and practice, with aggravating

and harmful impact on health of mankind.

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Besides, if we accept that culture and peace

must go hand in hand in civilized world,

then in the concept of creation the term abuse is not included.

 

But man tends to overlook and underestimate the fact that

he is just one weak link in the long and large chain of Nature.

 

Moreover, man has become dangerous with his actions in such a speed

that he is unable to capture and realize the meaningfulness,

the importance and the usefulness of all creations on the earth and universe.

 

We all feel there is a cause of our existence, which unfortunately

we  do not always know or can capture in extension,

from the tiny spider working seemingly hopeless its cobweb,

to the proud eagle ripping imperiously the open- ended  horizon.
 

Then the man - who is no more than a passenger in the train of life –

is trusted to develop, provide and evolve his kind on this earth.

This means he came to do no harm.
 

When we allow ourselves or children to ignore

the suffering of the animals,

we grow a society without compassion.

 

But like everything in life runs in a cycle mode,

so each person eventually reaches its ultimate point of excellence maturation.

So if the person in the years of his strength and power

has followed and taught contempt and indifference

towards the weak, pain, suffering and abuse,

he should not be shocked facing intolerance and insensitivity

in his children towards his human suffering either
 

A  life of no compassion is a life less of a human 

Compassion towards all living creatures make us more of a human!

 

Especially the animals that live around us, feel our suffering,

have a sense of our feelings, empathize, respond

and seek to accompany us silently, protectively and caringly.

 

These special creatures that are some of the true wonders of nature,

can not be ignored !
By leaving them isolated, we become the ones overburdened and deprived

of their irreplaceable beneficial sources. 

Meanwhile, they feel poorer being cut off

from any communication, touch and contact form.

 

And this is because they do too experience emotional pain,

much more than physical,

like all the other living creatures on this earth.
In these then, our neatly yards, where not a tiny leaf dares to ignore the wind,

let’s be more hospitable and affable to all young animals

who are born and die in our neighborhood.
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A helping hand for an animal in need is not hard or difficult,

it is not a luxury, nor a distraction from helping also our fellow man.

 

On the contrary,it strengthens the feelings of care and compassion for the human being, since these feelings are the strongest in those who have learned to love and respect nature as well as all its creatures.

 

Compassion towards Animals makes us more than of a Human!

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Vasiliki Leventakou