Dogs in Namibia Africa walking along with kids in a township of Windhoek.

Animal-Kind International
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Our 8th annual (2025) Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program for Africa & Latin America/Caribbean is now closed. We received 76 grant applications. Please See: Grant Program 2025

to read about our 13 2025-2026 grant recipients.

Thanks to your support, our Partner Animal Rescue & Protection Organizations

and our Grantees are helping 1000s

of dogs, cats, donkeys, and horses throughout Africa & Latin America/Caribbean. Our supported organizations are

Community-Based, Locally Rooted, Highly Effective, & Verified by AKI, ensuring that your donations reach the most vulnerable animals in need of rescue and protection.

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Your donations to Animal-Kind International are helping AKI Partner Organizations in:

Democratic Republic of Congo
Ghana
Liberia
Namibia
South Sudan
Uganda
Zimbabwe
Honduras
Jamaica

Through our 8th Annual Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program, your donations also reach our 2025 Grant Recipients who work in:

Tanzania (2 grantees)
Kenya
South Africa (2 grantees)
Cameroon
Namibia
Israel
Honduras
Haiti
Colombia
Chile
Ecuador

Through our Friendly Audits Program, providing remote volunteers to select animal welfare organizations, we're helping 3 organizations in Africa with technical and admin support.

Thanks to your support, in 2025-2026, we're helping 26 organizations in 19 countries. Strengthening these local animal rescue and protection organizations is the key to long-term, lasting improvements in animal welfare.

Animal-Kind International is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the

US State of New Mexico.

100% of your donations go to our Partners & Grantees.

The head of a light brown donkey looking straight at us with basic wooden stables in the distant background in South Africa.

LISTEN TO STACY LEBARON INTERVIEW AKI FOUNDER KAREN ON THE COMMUNITY CATS PODCAST where they talk about cats in Africa.
For more about what we do and how we do it, see About AKI and Listen to Dr. Peter Spiegel with Animals Today
interview AKI Founder & Director, Karen Menczer (begins at minute 21.5).

Le nostre organizzazioni partner

Karen Menczer Founder and Director of Animal-Kind International working in animal rescue protection welfare and care in Africa and Honduras and Jamaica.

( Foto: Karen Menczer, fondatrice e direttrice dell'AKI)

AKI is a 2025 Great Non-Profit: Check out our 5 star reviews on Great Non-Profits (and please add your 5-star review!) Not only that, we've achieved the Platinum Seal of Transparency on Candid's GuideStar indicating the highest level of transparency and we received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator (2024)!

The Candid seal of transparency showing that Animal-Kind International earned platinum level, the highest level of transparency.

2024

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