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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. |
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| 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). |
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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. New updates added December 2011, click here |
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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. |
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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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Pro Paws Charity (Armenia)
Pro Paws promotes spay/neuter of Yerevan’s street dogs. Pro Paws is an important complement to Save the Animals’ shelter. |
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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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» 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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| » AKI adds our first new partner organization of 2011, Tanzania Animal Welfare Society [click here to read about TAWESO]. AKI adds our second new partner organization of 2011, Lilongwe Society for the Protection and Care of Animals-Malawi [click here to read about LSPCA]. Read more |
| » Read more about AKI In the News - Click here. |
| » Please read the Animal-Kind International December 2011 holiday email message Click here |
» Positions Available
Ghana SPCA is looking for volunteers to help with fundraising and with their humane education program. Contact karen@animal-kind.org for more information. |
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In Memory of Lucy
Although we support organizations all over the world, we do not lose sight that AKI is about the individual dogs, cats, and other animals who need our help, as well as the animal welfare advocates in poor countries, who tirelessly work to improve the lives of animals.
There are many dogs as wonderful and deserving as Lucy, and most don’t get the opportunities that she has had. But they all should. AKI is dedicated to Lucy’s memory, in the hope that someday, all animals will be treated much more humanely.
Lucy was from Uganda, and had a very sad start to her life in Kampala. She spent about 18 hours a day chained to a wooden box, |
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| which was her "home" behind a food kiosk. During the day she was taunted by people who came to the kiosk. At night, she was let off the chain to guard, but she turned out to be a failure as a guard dog, and her owners asked me if I wanted her.
From when she was about 1 1/2 years old, she lived with us in Uganda for four years, moved to Botswana, Ghana, and then Jemez Springs, New Mexico, USA with us, where she spent the last three years, two of them battling throat cancer, but she was always a sweet, gentle, and happy soul. (Lucy aka Goosey Lucy aka Loose Goose, 1997-July 2010)
-Karen Menczer, founder and director, AKI |
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