Animal-Kind International Blog

So far, in 2019, HAH-Namibia has used AKI funds for emergency vet care, booster vaccinations, and parasite treatments. Geesche Neuberg (HAH-Namibia) gives the details below. APRIL MOBILE CLINICS The Mobile Animal Clinic headed south this month and saw a lot of old Have a Heart customers. Especially in Luderitz, Dr. Baines was very impressed with the many healthy animals he saw. AKI plays a big part in this success. Especially in Luderitz we have a huge problem with mange, but

This AKI Blog post is dedicated to Lindie Prinsloo, the founder of HAH and the reason that an HAH-AKI partnership exists to this day. We honor her memory with our continued support for emergency care for HAH clients, parasite treatment and vaccination of previous HAH clients (i.e., during year 2 and beyond), and for spay/neuter for cats (or any other s/n funding that HAH needs). Since our last HAH post in July, this is how your donations to Animal-Kind International helped HA

As Have-a-Heart-Namibia finds more sponsors for their country-wide spay/neuter mobile clinic, we're finding that our AKI funds are used more often for emergency care. Which is fine with us! These are cases that would have not been able to get the very needed vet care if it wasn't for our AKI donors. HAH tries to help any pet owner who doesn't have the financial means to bring the dog or cat to a vet for sterilisation. But we also realised that there is a big need for treatmen

So that we (AKI) fully understand our partners' needs and can provide that information to you, our supporters, we talk regularly to our partners about their daily work, their challenges, their goals. But at the end of 2017, we dug deeper and asked our partners a set of questions: We told them that before answering, they should spend some time thinking about the questions, talk to their staff, volunteers, supporters, and also to us. As Have A Heart-Mobile supporters, I thought

AKI has been supporting HAH since Outjo resident, Lindie Prinsloo, started this Namibia-wide spay/neuter initiative, which brings s/n and other vet services to rural parts of Namibia, where vet care had never before been available. Through HAH volunteer, Geesche Neuberg, AKI first provided funds for HAH-Luderitz, Aus, and Bethanie. Since the HAH mobile clinic began operating in December 2016, through Geesche, AKI began supporting the mobile clinic; specifically AKI is fundin

In the last HAH blog post (Feb 2017), we introduced you to HAH-Mobile and told you that AKI agreed that HAH could use AKI funds for cat spay/neuter and for vet care (other than s/n) of all animals brought to the mobile clinic. Here's an update (March-April 2017) about some of the cases that HAH-Mobile treated and what AKI funds are being used for. Animal-Kind International is hugely important to us. It is through their ongoing support that we are able to provide services othe

Have A Heart, the Namibia-wide effort to bring spay/neuter services to all parts of Namibia, no matter how remote, now has access to a mobile s/n clinic (pictured below)! Its maiden voyage took place in January-February 2017. Over a 2 week period at the end of January and into early February, during which the mobile unit traveled 1500 km, a total of 327 animals were sterilized (including 53 cats and 1 rabbit) and many dogs and cats were treated for everything from injuries to