Animal-Kind International Blog

Each AKI Blog post features an AKI Partner Organization, AKI Grant Recipient, or an individual or organization making a difference for animals in low income/resource-poor countries, where there is very little public support for animal welfare. In posts about our supported organizations, you'll also find details of how they use your donations to AKI.

Animal-Kind International

Jan 8, 2019

Kingston Community Animal Welfare: Hope for Kingston's Street Cats & Dogs

AKI and KCAW have been partners since 2007, since the start of AKI. AKI donors provide about 90% of KCAW's funding. So AKI donors....all of this is thanks to your help and your kind and generous support! In Deborah's words...... (December) This little dog belongs to a street vendor. A woman. He was hit by a speeding car. I was driving past and just happened to see the dog lying helpless on the side of the road. Nobody thought to take the poor animal from the street. If I didn

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Oct 17, 2018

Digipuss - A Love Story

Cindi helps Deborah (Kingston Community Animal Welfare) rescue and find homes for Kingston's homeless cats and dogs. Here's Cindi's story of one of Kingston's lucky street dogs and her friends. My husband used to drive several times a week out to Caymanas to ride his horse, and one day he swerved to avoid what looked like some clothing in the middle of the road and then suddenly realized it was moving. He got out and went to look and could not believe what his eyes were seei

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Aug 19, 2018

AKI-KCAW: History of our Partnership

Kingston Community Animal Welfare has been an AKI Partner Organization from the beginning of AKI in 2007. AKI support to KCAW ensures that they can feed, spay/neuter, and provide vet care to 100s of street cats and dogs and pets belonging to poor people in Kingston, Jamaica. Together, we've helped 1000s of animals; below is just a few from 2007 - 2015 (stories are courtesy of KCAW's Deborah Binns). In the early days--when we were 1st raising money, AKI supporters covered only

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Dec 29, 2017

More Kingston Community Animal Welfare Rescues Made Possible Thanks to AKI Donors

Since mid-September, KCAW has made some dramatic and lifesaving rescues, all made possible thanks to AKI donors! Here are some of their stories. Little, a little pup with a big burden: In mid-December, Deborah received a call about a little puppy running around a market. Or at least, trying to run. He had quite a heavy burden for such a little guy. Deborah caught him and brought Little to the vet, where the diagnosis was: infected salivary gland. The vet and Deborah discussed

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Jun 15, 2017

KCAW Update, January-June 2017: Here's what AKI funds make possible

The stories and pictures below are just a sample of what Kingston Community Animal Welfare has done over the last 6 months. Every day, Deborah and her network of helpers and fellow rescuers feed, check on, give attention and love to street cats and dogs, and pets owned by poor people and get them s/n'd and vet care, when needed. Without KCAW and our AKI donors (the only outside funding that KCAW receives), none of this would be possible. In early March, while on her Saturday

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Jan 13, 2017

I am Wowed by KCAW, Part 2

AKI donors cover a significant portion of Kingston Community Animal Welfare's costs, which include dog and cat food, spay/neuter, and other vet care. This is the 2nd AKI Blog post about my November 2016 visit with KCAW. This visit made me prouder than ever that we support their work! Deborah and I started day 2 of my visit with a stop at this house (2 pictures below), where 3 dogs had been left behind when their owner moved away. The new home owner has no interest in the dogs

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Jan 12, 2017

I am Wowed by KCAW

In November 2016, I was in Kingston, Jamaica and spent 3 days with Kingston Community Animal Welfare feeding, petting, catching, and loving the dogs and cats that live on Kingston's streets. Here's just some of what Deborah and I did during an amazing 3 days. Our 1st stop was along Deborah's usual Friday route on her way to work. Although this Friday, she wasn't going to work, the Friday dogs expected to be fed, and we didn't want to disappoint them. Many of these dogs (at st

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Nov 20, 2016

Kingston's Pets Get the Best of Care Thanks to KCAW and AKI!

With AKI funds, Kingston Community Animal Welfare helped dogs and cats affected by Hurricane Matthew and continued to feed and provide vet care for Kingston's neglected dogs and cats during August through October 2016. Here are the details of how AKI donor funds were used. Deborah (KCAW) covers a lot of miles on her way to and from work every day, traveling a different route with each trip, she stops to feed hundreds of street dogs and cats. She's well-known throughout the c

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Jul 29, 2016

So many dogs & cats have been helped thanks to KCAW and AKI!

Kingston Community Animal Welfare helps poor families care for their pets and helps hundreds of dogs and cats that live on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica. KCAW (with AKI funds) provides food, gets dogs and cats spayed/neutered, and when needed, gets them vet care. Here are some of the animals that KCAW has helped, thanks to AKI donors, in the last couple of months. In these pictures below, you can see the lengths to which Deborah goes to help Kingston's animals. The dog in

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Apr 16, 2016

Queen of Kingston

Kingston Community Animal Welfare has been an AKI partner organization since 2007, when AKI started. Below are just some of the dogs and cats that KCAW's Deborah has helped, between January and April 2016, thanks to your donations to AKI. Deborah travels along routes to work in the morning and home in the evening that take her by many of Kingston's street dogs and cats and many poor neighborhoods, where she helps families provide food and vet care for their pets. She (and any

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Jan 17, 2016

KCAW Eases the Lives of Kingston's Street Dogs & Cats

Kingston (Jamaica) Community Animal Welfare, founded and operated by Jamaican born and raised Deborah Binns, feeds and takes care of street dogs and cats and also helps poor people in Kingston feed and care for their pets. KCAW has been an AKI partner organization since 2007. AKI donors have made so many KCAW rescues and recoveries possible. AKI donors also provide the funds for KCAW to feed about 500 dogs and 50 cats every week and to spay/neuter hundreds of dogs and cats