Our healthy SOCIAL MEDIA following:
CCHA has penetrated deep into the social media world. We currently have 19,115 Facebook followers and we have reached over 2,350,000+ users in 2021 across all our platforms. Share our posts! Ask your friends and family to follow us!
Our comprehensive data-driven WEBSITE:
We have continued to update the reports of carriage-related incidents. An amazing 130+ being reported since 2016 (see our website for details!) That’s akin to an auto-related accident a week on Meeting Street alone! Please consider checking out the website for great information. www.charlestoncarriagehorseadvocates.com
Tourism Commission members FINANCIAL INTERESTS in Tourism.
At our own expense Charleston Carriage Horse Advocates, a local non-profit, researched safety measures and submitted a common-sense safety ordinance to City Council. Charleston Animal Society, Preservation Society of Charleston, and the downtown Charlestowne Neighborhood Association endorsed our proposal. The City’s tourism commission, populated by a majority of members with financial interests in the tourism business quickly moved to slant the discussion of the merits of the Safety Ordinance to the benefit of the Carriage Industry. What was promised by the Department of Livability to be an opportunity to fully explain our proposal turned out to be a 2-minute presentation interrupted and criticized by members of Tourism. Overheard on a “hot mic” the head of the Department of Livability stated no enthusiasm for a comprehensive safety ordinance to protect horses, mules, and people.
Democratic process? NOT EVEN A HINT.
City Council was no better. Having their campaign coffers filled with carriage industry dollars probably didn’t help our seeking real safety measures! But, hey! A small victory was won; the City had to admit, by allowing the subject to be brought forward, that safety is an issue.
EXCITING NEWS FOR SPRING!
We are only $300 away from having the money to put up a billboard on Eastbound I-26 to explain to tourists why they should, “Think before you Ride”. Please help us get that billboard up for the spring rush of tourists. The billboard will be seen thousands of times during the spring House Tour season. The horses and mules need us to speak for them. Please help them. Please give them a voice. You can easily donate here or send a check:
CCHA
PO BOX 22827
Charleston, SC 29413
The horses and mules thank you!