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

Dec 26, 2018

Social & Animal Welfare Service-Somaliland: Grant Progress Report for November & December

SAWS-Somaliland is using AKI's grant to hold 6 donkey vet clinics over a period of 6 months. This is the report of the 2nd and 3rd clinics (in November and December) held in villages and settlements in Hargeisa District. The area that SAWS targeted for November and December donkey clinics is shown in the pictures below, a remote area in Hargeisa District where nomadic people and their livestock go to collect water from the underground water reservoirs known in Somali as berka

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Nov 21, 2018

Mobile vet clinic and outreach to villages (October 2018)

Social and Animal Welfare Service-Somaliland is a recipient of AKI's Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organization Grant. SAWS will hold 6 donkey vet clinics funded by the AKI grant. This is a report about the 1st. On 14th October 2018, I (Hassan Mohamed Aden, SAWS Executive Director and Chairman) accompanied vet doctors from the Ministry of Livestock to carry out a mobile vet clinic in villages in Hargeisa district. We were equipped with a full medical kit that was mainly donated

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Aug 18, 2018

TAWESO-AKI: History of our Partnership

Tanzania Animal Welfare Society has been an AKI Partner since January 2011. Here's what our partnership accomplished for animals during 2011-2015 (Please see other AKI Blog posts for information post-2015. Currently our support to TAWESO is specifically for donkey welfare clinics). In early 2015, TAWESO held an 8-day Donkey Veterinary Clinic in Ilolo and Kimagai villages in Mpwapwa District, Dodoma (the clinics were funded from other sources, as well). A total of 654 donkeys

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Jul 6, 2018

Donkey Vet Clinic Supported by AKI Donors!

DONKEY WELFARE VETERINARY OUTREACH CLINICS CONDUCTED IN MPWAPWA DISTRICT- CENTRAL TANZANIA funded by AKI! During the month of June, 2018, through support from Animal-Kind International, we conducted intensive donkey welfare outreach clinics in the rural village areas of Mpwapwa district in central Tanzania. A total of 384 donkeys were helped during the programme in four villages of the district. The work was conducted by our volunteer veterinary team and treatments included

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Oct 20, 2017

TAWESO Expands to Southern Tanzania to Help Donkeys!

AKI primarily supports TAWESO's donkey clinics. Depending on the donations that AKI receives, AKI supports 3-4 TAWESO donkey clinics every year, helping about 2000 donkeys and their owners in central Tanzania. As you'll read below, converting from the single shaft, heavy carts with yoke to double shaft, lighter carts, is the main key to alleviating the suffering of donkeys in southern Tanzania. But to do this will require a significant amount of funding. To help Tanzania's d

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Jul 29, 2017

Ghana SPCA: How We Use AKI Donor Funds

Ghana Society for the Protection & Care of Animals relies entirely on AKI donors to support their Humane Ed Program. They get no government funds, most grant-giving organizations prefer to support "hands-on" animal rescue and protection, and Ghana has so few residents who are willing and able to donate to help animals. Yet we all believe that Humane Ed is key to improving the way people treat animals. That's why AKI supports GSPCA's HE Program. Here's an update on what the GS

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Jun 23, 2017

AKI Support to Tanzania Animal Welfare Society During the 1st Half of 2017

Here's an update about TAWESO and what your donations to AKI have achieved during January-June 2017. During May 2017, TAWESO used AKI funds for donkey veterinary outreach clinics held over a 2 week period, an expanded version of the usual clinics of 2-3 days. The clinics were held in Mpwapwa District in the central part of Tanzania in rural villages around the mountains, specifically in the villages of Kisokwe, Chang’ombe, Musungwi, Ukaguluni, Ikulu, Bwagala, Salanda, Isosole

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May 14, 2017

Case study: Abused Donkey Rescued by SAWS

Social and Animal Welfare Service (SAWS) is sharing with you a story involving an abused-and now rescued--working donkey and its owner which took place in March 2017. SAWS met a working donkey and his owner on the way to a SAWS mobile donkey clinic. The donkey was extremely thin and had many visible injuries on its back and legs. After the SAWS’ clinic team examined the donkey, they realized that the donkey needed immediate relief. Therefore, the clinic team advised the owner

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Feb 19, 2017

Donkeys in Tanzania Need our Help!

AKI supports Tanzania Animal Welfare Society’s Donkey Welfare Programme in the rural central areas in Mpwapwa district in Dodoma, Tanzania. Donors to AKI support TAWESO’s donkey clinics, including transport of TAWESO staff and other volunteers to clinic sites, meds, materials (humane harnesses), humane ed material on donkey care, and refreshments for clinic workers. But a new issue is looming and we are ready to support TAWESO's efforts to address it! So much cruelty happens

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Sep 25, 2016

Donkey Outreach Clinic treats 438 donkeys & 3 dogs!

Since 2011, AKI has been supporting Tanzania Animal Welfare Society's donkey outreach clinics. Here's a report, from Dr. Thomas, on July's clinic. In July, with AKI funds, TAWESO conducted donkey welfare outreach clinics in two mountain villages, Nguji and Chamuhawi, between Mpwapwa and Kongwa districts in central Tanzania. In these mountain areas, transport is only by donkeys, no bike or vehicle can easily pass through. But we had no option due to staff and our luggage, we

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Jul 28, 2016

So much happening for animals in Somaliland

Since 2013, Ali Hassan, founder and director of Social and Animal Welfare Service-Somaliland, and I have been working on proposals, fundraising strategies, and ideas for animal welfare programs for SAWS. Although not an AKI partner organization, SAWS has made some impressive strides for animals in a country that's not the friendliest toward its animals. But they still have a long way to go. Since most people aren't familiar with Somaliland, here's some background according

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Apr 19, 2016

Ghana SPCA: Hands-on Humane Ed

[The April 19 post about the Liberia AWCS humane ed project describes the background to AKI support for Ghana SPCA hands-on humane ed as well. The application, design, and planning processes described in the LAWCS post are the same as those used by the GSPCA. AKI agreed to fund a total of ten humane ed projects in Ghana-nine in and around Accra for $100 each; and one in Zebilla, Upper East Region for $300. To continue to fund projects like these, we need your support!] As of

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Mar 30, 2016

Breaking News: AKI SUPPORTS A VET CLINIC IN KUKURUZUA, GHANA

VET CLINIC HELD ON FEBRUARY 20. 2016 IN KUKURUZUA IN THE BAWKU WEST DISTRICT Background Zebilla is the District Capital of the Bawku West District in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The 2010 population census of Ghana estimates Bawku West to have 94,034 people. It is predominantly inhabited by the Kusal speaking people. The town is rural-the lifestyle of the people is cultural and focuses on traditional leadership; peasant farming is the mainstay of the people and they are

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Jan 29, 2016

Challenges of the Zebilla Animal

If I were any livestock species. I mean if I were any one of the domestic animals. That is if I am a goat, a sheep, a cow and a donkey, there is a place in Ghana I will not like to live. If I were ever reincarnated and I am asked to choose a habitat to live in, i will carefully exclude Zebilla from the possible check list of probables. If I were ever asked by God to make a choice of place to live in, I will carefully embark on a research trip which will study the character of

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Aug 31, 2015

Donkey vet clinic, August 2015

With funds from AKI, Tanzania Animal Welfare Society held a donkey vet clinic in August 2015. This is a brief report on that clinic. TAWESO staff and volunteers traveled from Dar es Salaam to Mpwapwa district to hold a donkey vet clinic in August, 2015. We were able to help 243 donkeys with wound dressing, de-worming, and vaccination against rabies. Some animals were provided with specific veterinary treatment of the presenting disease conditions. We thank the AKI donors for