ISF Animal Sanctuary

As many of you know, I am a big Ian Somerhalder fan and am going to actually get to meet him at Dragoncon at the end of August.  Obviously, I am very excited about this.  So, since I am a dork at heart, I have been doing more research on Ian.  I follow him on twitter, he is a great tweeter, by the way.  He makes you feel like he is talking directly to you, or maybe that's just my imagination. LOL

Anyway, in reading more about him and his interests, I found out about this great foundation that he has created and seems to be very involved in, The IS Foundation.  He has been tweeting recently about this Animal Sanctuary that they want to open.  You can read more about it here
http://www.isfoundation.com/campaign/isf-animal-sanctuary

The basic idea seems to be to give abused and neglected animals a safe haven.  But, what makes this Animal Sanctuary different from others out there is that they plan to help children at the same time they are helping the animals.  They plan to have bullies come to the sanctuary and the goal is to help the bullies learn compassion through helping the animals.  I think this is a great idea.  But, as most of you know, I have to have a "but".

But, I just hope while they are planning this Animal Sanctuary/Bully Reformation, they do not make it a "reward" for bullies.  What I mean by this is that a kid who is a bully gets to take a vacation to this sanctuary and play with animals.  I hope this is considered and they come up with a way to make it work without it being a "reward".  I don't have an answer as to how they could do it.  I just hope it is considered.  Maybe that's something I can ask him when I see him...