CJ Acres Animal Rescue Farm
Bill # EL65054079G
Meet Ginger and Angel. They are the recipients of my Change for $20. Imagine sponsoring two cats for an entire year for just $20!
My connection to CJ Acres is through a former co-worker Lee Sackett. He and his wife Jennifer started CJ Acres out of a love for animals. Their story is best paraphrased by excerpts from a story in their local paper:
Each weekday morning before Jennifer Sackett leaves for her job in Jacksonville, she and her husband, Lee Sackett, feed all the animals on their farm and assess them to make sure they are healthy. They repeat the hour and a half routine when she returns home in the evening.
But the Sacketts are not running a working farm. They own CJ Acres Animal Rescue Farm, a shelter that rescues in-need farm animals and rehabilitates them for possible adoption…The animals at CJ Acres include horses, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, cats, and dogs.
The Sacketts chose the name CJ Acres in memory of one of their first rescue dogs named CJ who did not live long, said Jennifer. Although Jennifer said she and Lee are “city born and raised,” their love of animals has brought them to a country farm caring for the neediest creatures. She said it is a way to give back.
“Everyone does what they need to do to make the world a better place, and ours is animals,” she said.
I couldn’t have said it better. Find out more about them at cj-acres.org. There are all kinds of ways to help out, even if you can’t spare a $20.
Posted: December 20, 2009 at 7:43 am
