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 13, 2022

Uganda SPCA: Update

It's time to prepare for the move to the new USPCA Haven. In part this move is more sudden than we had expected and is due to ...

Animal-Kind International

Sep 10, 2021

Uganda SPCA September 2021 Update

The previous AKI Blog post about our Partner Organization, Uganda SPCA, took us from January through early May. In that article, I wrote...

Animal-Kind International

May 18, 2021

Uganda SPCA, Early 2021 Update

As I write this, the USPCA is on the verge of purchasing a 2-acre plot of land, which could become the new Haven. There are still too...

Animal-Kind International

May 14, 2021

Mbwa wa Africa Stories

To balance the sadness in the world, I compiled some of the happy tales of Mbwa wa Africa's rescue work. AKI donors support the Mbwa wa...

Sauvons nos Animaux (Democratic Republic of Congo) completes their AKI grant project!

Animal-Kind International

Dec 16, 2020

Sauvons nos Animaux (Democratic Republic of Congo) completes their AKI grant project!

Sauvons nos Animaux used the AKI grant to construct two structures at their shelter: One pen that holds about 25 dogs, currently at the...

Transitions: Uganda Society for the Protection & Care of Animals in the 2nd half of 2020

Animal-Kind International

Dec 14, 2020

Transitions: Uganda Society for the Protection & Care of Animals in the 2nd half of 2020

The USPCA continues to deal with many rescues and pet surrenders with fewer adoptions than normal due to continuing effects of covid-19....

Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras: running an animal shelter in a pandemic and a hurricane

Animal-Kind International

Nov 9, 2020

Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras: running an animal shelter in a pandemic and a hurricane

This is Pilar’s daily routine: 6am dogs, birds, cats, and raccoon get their food and water; then clean up front and back yards, cat...

Animal Protection Foundation-Egypt takes on the impossible-successfully-with an AKI grant

Animal-Kind International

Nov 6, 2020

Animal Protection Foundation-Egypt takes on the impossible-successfully-with an AKI grant

On June 9, we received a proposal from Animal Protection Foundation-Egypt to our Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program....

AKI Partner, Mbwa wa Africa in Arusha, Tanzania, thanks our AKI supporters

Animal-Kind International

Sep 28, 2020

AKI Partner, Mbwa wa Africa in Arusha, Tanzania, thanks our AKI supporters

Mbwa Wa Africa is home to an ever-increasing number of different-abled animals. Some are paralysed, some double-or single-amputees.