IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE ARCCG ADMIN TEAM
If you are in a GLOBAL craft guild group (not this group), please share this to your team/post/moderators.
This is not about people in this page that are from anywhere in particular, this is about the new global groups that are springing up everywhere that we know nothing about.
The past few weeks several overseas groups, sub groups and even a "Global Admin Craft Guild" team has sprung up from people we don’t know about, who aren’t affiliated at all with our work and are NOT dealing with the rescuers we work with.
Supply and demand require coordination, so global groups that are coming online without our involvement are creating disorganisation, confusion, and likely an oversupply of some items.
We encourage global groups to make contact with their LOCAL animal rescue groups in their own country. As we have seen in Australia, these groups have lacked support for a long time and would really appreciate your support.
We have just hit 200K members and we are working hard to ensure supply doesn't overstrip demand. We don't want items to go to waste. You may need to sew or crochet slower or stop entirely. This is a good news story, and why we want you to reach out to your local rescue to see what they need. Opossums, squirrels, rodents, snakes, lizards, cats, dogs, etc. can use these items too.
The Animal Rescue Craft Guild is part of the Animal Rescue Collective (ARC) team. It has been doing a fantastic job of supporting the local team with supply and product to add to our food and medical supply loads that go to animals in need.
The Rescue Collective and ARC focus on getting food and supplies to animal rescuers impacted by fires in Australia. Tonnes of food, everywhere. That keeps animals alive. As you have seen this has become incredibly big, it’s an organised and thought out mod team and we know what is needed.
But we are being distracted and taken away from our important work by “craft emergencies" created by new groups springing up that now need somewhere to put the products they make. We didn’t ask for it. Urgent requests, calls, and demands for our immediate attention on conspiracy theories, business plans they have dreamt up, researching shipping for them, etc.
This makes for a LOT of noise, questions and admin, a lot of misinformation that takes us away from things running smoothly.
It's the equivalent of walking into someone else’s business, throwing mess everywhere then saying, "you really need to bring me in to clean up this mess, lets have a meeting urgently.”
The work the craft guild does is important and the way we are doing it is going well. We can speed production up and slow it down based on demand. But the important work we need to be focused on is feeding and treating animals that are dying. Not creating global bureaucracies and artificial “craft emergencies.”
If you are a member of a global craft guild page that isn’t this page you are on here with this big red image. It is highly likely that we don’t have anything to do with it. It is also highly likely that you or they will end up with a large amount of your products wasted and sitting in your lounge room or shed. Or thrown in the bin.
- The supply is very high, we need to keep managing this centrally. Here with this team.
- We are not taking on the coordination of the inbounds from these new global teams. We already have enough to do. They need to work WITH us to check on supply and demand, not MAKE more work for us.
- We recognise that people have seen a movement, and want to be on that and to create their own. We encourage them to make contact with shelters in their own countries and do this for them. Save the postage and help your local rescue groups!
- The rescue groups and the animals that need help are here, with us, in Australia, where we are shipping out food and supplies. WE KNOW what is needed and what isn’t.
We are not going to have a meeting about it, we don’t need to have detailed global plans. It's a Facebook group, we are in Australia where the fires are and are dealing with emergencies on every side. That's our priority.
If you have created a global page and we don’t know about it and it isn’t able to get supply into Australia, it is OK to close your page down or talk to your local rescuers and animal welfare to support them instead.
If you are a member of a global craft guild page… please, ask your local page admins in your country how they intend on getting product here, and which rescue groups… and then actively encourage the local team to work with local rescuers in your own country, that is important… shipping tonnage of supplies to Australia when we are already flooded is a big challenge.
We cannot stop what we are doing to deal with “Global Craft Emergencies”… we already have emergencies to deal with.
Thank you to everyone that is in this page/group and working within this process as this is how we can manage it the best.