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Read the AKI profile and interview on A Street Dog's Story: click here |
AKI HONORED AS 2012 TOP-RATED NONPROFIT
New GreatNonprofits.org Award is Based on Positive Online Reviews
On December 4, AKI got the news that we have been honored with a prestigious 2012 Top-Rated Award by GreatNonprofits.
“We are gratified by Animal-Kind International for its work,” said Perla Ni, CEO of GreatNonprofits, “They deserve to be discovered by more donors and volunteers who are looking for a great nonprofit to support.”
Take a look at our page on Great Nonprofits and add your positive review to our page. |
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| AKI is featured in American Foreign Service Association News in the Foreign Service Journal, April 2012: scroll to the 2nd half of the page. |
| click here to read about AKI in the Jemez Thunder |
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| Animal-Kind International supports existing animal welfare organizations in poor countries. Currently we have partner organizations in: Armenia, Bosnia, Honduras, Jamaica, Ghana, Malawi, Namibia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. We personally know each of our partner organizations, the people involved, the work they do--so you can be assured that your donations to AKI are going directly towards helping the animals. And because AKI has no overhead, 100% of all contributions are sent directly to our partner organizations. |
| Animal-Kind International is a different kind of charity. Many of us have written a check to a favorite charity for $50, $25, $10, put it in an envelope and sent it off, and the only thing we get back is another request for money. As an AKI donor, we want you to know that you are part of AKI's effort to improve the lives of animals in poor countries. After all, our partner organizations can't continue to do what they do without your help. |
| Choose which AKI partner organization you'd like to support, or let AKI choose how to distribute your donations. Through AKI, you can be in direct contact with the people who are working on the ground to help animals, you can find out what your donations are supporting, and the difference your support is making in the lives of animals. Read about and become an AKI Supporter (click here). Its the perfect holiday gift to support one of our AKI partner organizations. Just let us know and we will be glad to make the holidays a bit easier for the animals and staff of these great organizations. |
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Ghana Society for the Protection & Care of AnimalsThe Ghana SPCA was founded by and for Ghanaians and focuses on humane education for schoolchildren. David and Roland started as WSPA Animal Club coordinators, and eventually started their own org, bringing their many years of experience and their intense concern for animals to the GSPCA. The GSPCA has been re-activated - click here to read about the latest GSPCA news. |
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Ghana Horse Project
Miriam is part of a group that has assisted horses and their caretakers at stables and on the streets in Accra, where horses have been abandoned. AKI donors have collected supplies that AKI sends to the Ghana Horse Project to help improve the lives of these horses. |
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Lilongwe Society for the Protection & Care of Animals The LSPCA in Malawi provides no cost vet care, including spay/neuter, in poor communities around Lilongwe. They also have foster homes for animals in need, humane education and adoption programs, and they partner with the police to fight cruelty in Lilongwe. The LSPCA is also helping other animal welfare organizations in Malawi start similar programs. |
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Namibia's rural SPCAs Through our local coordinator Erika, AKI supports rural SPCAs in Namibia, where there are so few opportunities to raise funds for animal welfare, yet there are so many animal welfare needs. The rural SPCAs provide vet care, including spay/neuter, and sanctuary for unwanted dogs and cats, and work with local authorities to stop dog fighting. |
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South Sudan humane ed volunteers - AKI helps humane ed volunteers in South Sudan provide humane education for children at schools and at churches. We send education material to the volunteers, so prized by the children they work with. |
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Tanzania Animal Welfare Society - TAWESO provides vet care in poor rural areas, humane education for schoolchildren, and supports a donkey program to help donkey owners take better care of the animals they so rely on. TAWESO has strong links to vets in western countries, who travel there every year to assist the TAWESO volunteers. |
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Uganda Society for the Protection & Care of AnimalsThe USPCA operates the Haven, Uganda’s only animal shelter. The Haven provides care for about 100 dogs and 30 cats and tries to find loving homes for them. At the same time, the USPCA’s Community Animal Welfare Program works to change attitudes about dogs and cats by working in poor neighborhoods in and around Kampala and Entebbe. See a video of the USPCA's dedicated staff here. Read bios of the USPCA staff here. |
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Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras - Pilar started HHHH and the Nereida Montes de Oca Refuge to help the neediest dogs and cats in Tegucigalpa. Pilar provides sanctuary for over 20 old, handicapped, and sick dogs and cats, most of whom have been thrown out on the street by their owners. Pilar partners with local vets to provide care for her sanctuary pets and who also help her care for other dogs and cats in need. New updates added December 2011, click here |
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Kingston Community Animal Welfare (Jamaica)Deborah’s org is the only one providing sustained care for the many street dogs of Kingston. She helps poor people feed and care for their pets; weekly, she feeds hundreds of streets dogs; she helps poor people with vet care; and when funds allow, she will spay/neuter anything on four legs. Deborah has a network of local people who are her eyes and ears on the ground, watching out for animals in all parts of Kingston. See the December 2011 update from KCAW for information and pictures of some of the animals that your donations to AKI have been helping, click here |
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Save the Animals-Armenia
Save the Animals operates the only animal shelter in Yerevan; it was started by Nune, an Armenian pianist, who felt she had to do something about the ever-growing number of street dogs. Over 220 dogs find refuge there from the busy streets of the city. There is a new, active, fresh and young community of local animal welfarists, who help Nune’s shelter, and also raise awareness about kindness to animals. |
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Bosnia Animal Foundation
BAF, headquartered in Amsterdam, holds spay/neuter clinics several times a year in various parts of Bosnia, where hundreds of street dogs and cats and pets of poor people are sterilized; they support improvements at animal shelters (Orasje and Sarajevo); and they provide humane education for school children. BAF is partnered with animal welfare volunteers and vets in Bosnia, and as an outside organization with close Bosnian ties, BAF is in a perfect position to help Bosnians make real improvements in animal welfare. |
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| »AKI's April newsletter is now available! Please read at: More than dogs & AKI's financial transparency: click here |
| » University of New Mexico's alumni magazine, The Mirage, Spring 2012 included an article on Animal-Kind International click here. |
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» Sarah's book about Hope (see the USPCA page) is now available from Animal-Kind International for a donation of $5. 100% of the price of the book is sent directly to Uganda SPCA to help support the Haven and the USPCA's community animal welfare programs. Please send your check to AKI, PO Box 300, Jemez Springs, NM 87025. The book makes a great holiday gift for children of any age! |
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| » Read more about AKI In the News - Click here. |
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