These days, we welcomed our 1,000th follower on the Foundation Second Facebook page. For large organizations and pages backed by significant promotional budgets, one thousand followers may not seem like a large number. For us, it is.

Foundation Second does not have a budget for advertising its activities. We reach people primarily through organic growth – thanks to those who follow our work, share our posts, recommend us to their friends, and help the stories of the people we support reach a wider audience.

That is why, when we look at the number one thousand, we do not see a statistic. We see one thousand people who, at some point, decided to stay with us and follow what we do.

So much can begin with a single shared post

Over the past few years, we have used our pages to share stories about children without parental care, families at risk, single mothers, persons with disabilities, young people growing up in the care system, as well as animal-assisted therapy involving cats, their rescue and treatment, and our care for abandoned animals that, over time, have become an important part of our programs and activities with the people we support.

We have also taken you with us to our Small Family Home in Ledići, where children have spent their holidays, camped for the first time, learned, worked in the garden, cooked, observed the stars, discovered the mountains, and simply had the opportunity to spend a few days outside an institutional environment.

Many of these activities would not have been possible without people who first learned about Foundation Second through social media.

Someone saw a shared post and decided to donate. Someone offered us something we needed. Someone became a volunteer. Someone connected the Foundation with people and organizations that later became our partners. Someone decided to support our work on a regular basis.

That is why, for a small organization, sharing a post is never “just a share.”

Our greatest asset is people's trust

From the very beginning, we have tried to show the public not only whom we support, but also what we do with the support we receive.

When we improve a space, we want to show what has been accomplished. When we organize a stay for children, we want our donors to know what they have made possible. When we receive support, we want to acknowledge where it came from. When there is a problem, we do not want to hide it.

We believe that trust should never be taken for granted. It is built step by step, and it must be earned again and again.

That is precisely why it means so much to us that our first one thousand followers have chosen to walk this journey with us.

Help us reach the next thousand

Today, we have one simple request for everyone who believes in what we do.

Help Foundation Second reach more people.

Invite your friends to follow our pages. Share a story that has touched you. Send someone a link to one of our projects. Tell someone about Ledići, about the children we support, the families we help, or any of our other activities.

It takes nothing more than a few seconds.

And those few seconds may mean that our story reaches a future donor, volunteer, partner, or someone who can open a door that we have not yet been able to open ourselves.

Our message from the very beginning has been: “Because every second of every day is a chance to start again.”

Today, we could add another:

Every person we manage to reach together represents a new opportunity to help someone.

We thank the first one thousand people who have chosen to stand with Foundation Second.

We hope this is only the beginning.