Bannja is excited to work with the CSRA Humane Society Animal Shelter and provide our support and donations to such a great cause!
Proceeds from all Homemade Decor, Gifts and apparel will go to assisting our furry little friends in the Augusta, GA area!

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The Society is governed by a Board of Directors who are very much hands-on volunteers at our shelter. We do have part-time paid staff who tend to the needs of the pets 365 days a year in both morning and evening shifts.
 

We also have an office assistant who answers the phone most weekday mornings. Our kennel supervisor does double duty as our vet tech.

A group of like-minded individuals organized the Society, which was incorporated in Georgia in 1985. Initially the Society was a network of foster homes that housed adoptable cats and dogs and brought them to TV stations and other venues to try to get them adopted.

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While initially renting kennel space in a local groomer/boarding facility, our volunteers came up with a business plan to turn the city’s unused Stockade into a no-kill shelter. In 1999, the business plan was presented to the Augusta-Richmond County Commissioners, who later approved the plan. We signed the first lease on December 31, 1999. Then-Mayor Bob Young paid for our first five years of the lease by attaching a $5 bill to the contract.

We have since renewed the lease several times, now in ten-year increments.