FC&A is working to help the Second Chance Wildlife Center

FC&A

is working to help the Second Chance Wildlife Center

FC&A, a direct

marketing company in Peachtree City, recently chose the

Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education

Center in Grantville as their "Make a Difference

Day" project.

The center

is a haven for injured wild animals to be treated and

released back into the wild, as well as a sanctuary for

those too injured to return to their natural habitat.

The center

is also home to more than 150 animals and more than 200

animals a year are treated for rehabilitation. For more

than nine years, the non-profit center has depended on

donations and volunteers to keep it running.

The company

chose Second Chance because it offered a chance to aid

this unusual resource in the community. For many years,

owners Charles and Mary Lou Hood have conducted

educational tours of the center for school groups.

This year,

though, the tours may have to stop. Mary Lou Hood had to

get a full-time job in order to have enough money to feed

the animals and won't be able to conduct the tours.

One of

FC&A's goals is helping the company is to establish

assistance to the center on a regular basis and encourage

more community participation.

Prior to

the company's day at the center, FC&A held a campaign

for donations and collected $800 to aid the center.

During the

day in Grantville, 18 FC&A volunteers fed and watered

the animals and also did such chores as repairing the

fence and cutting up trees.

The company

plans to hold another day at the center this month.