About Animal Kind International

If you’ve felt powerless to help distressed animals in a country you’ve visited, if you’re interested in helping animals beyond your borders, or if you’re just curious about the status of animals and animal welfare in other countries, Animal Kind International can be a source of information and can also help you to help animals in far-away places. Needs range from financial to veterinary supplies to educational supplies. Sometimes just words of encouragement go a long way. Some organizations may even need helping hands if you are ever planning to visit their country.

Since animal welfare organizations in most developing countries compete for resources with so many other causes, internal appeals—to government, individuals, and business—are unlikely to fulfill resource needs. For animal welfare groups in developing countries, crisis management becomes the norm, and unable to plan for the future, they miss opportunities to have broad impacts in the animal welfare arena.

Western countries have the resources to help overcome the challenges. The key is to identify and match resources to needs and provide targeted and secure delivery of services, supplies and equipment.

Animal Kind International is getting the message out about animal welfare issues in developing countries and what can be done to address them. We want to build partnerships that can improve the lives of animals.

We have a network of animal welfare organizations and individuals who we know personally. We can vouch for their integrity and honesty. And we know that they are dedicated to improving animal welfare in their countries. Currently we are working with Uganda Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (USPCA); Botswana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA); Ghana Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (GSPCA); SOS-Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina); and community animal welfare workers in Honduras, Jamaica, and Southern Sudan.

You can read about what these organizations are doing, what their priorities and needs are, and you can help them to help animals. We’ll be adding more organizations and individuals in the future, so watch this site! We are a 501(c)(3) tax exempt charity, and we are a non-profit organization in the U.S. state of New Mexico. All donations are tax deductible.

Beginning last year (the Year of the Dog) Bark Magazine began profiling notable “People Who Matter.” We are proud and honored that they chose to feature Karen Menczer, founder of Animal Kind International, in their July-August issue.

Read about Karen's experiences helping domestic dogs in Africa.


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