Programma di sovvenzioni dell'organizzazione per il benessere degli animali con sede in Africa dell'AKI-2021
AKI's 8th annual (2025) Grant Program for African & Latin American/Caribbean
Animal Welfare Organizations
Our Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program is no longer accepting proposals. Please check back in May 2026 when we will open our 9th annual Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program. Scroll to the bottom of the page for more info.
Previously (2018-2024) our Grant Program only funded Africa-based animal welfare organizations.
This year, for the 1st time, we opened the grant program to Latin American/Caribbean (LAC) organizations. Read about our 2025 grantees and their grant projects below.
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Animal Welfare Grantees: Africa
SPCA Grahamstown in South Africa is a 4th time AKI grantee and a recipient of a top-up grant last year which we called the Good D.O.G. Fund (for Dogs of Grahamstown, although the fund also helped cats and a donkey). Their 2025 grant project, Amadoda (isiXhosa for “Men”), will address the welfare of male dogs in Joza township by improving their health and well-being through neutering to reduce fighting, injuries and roaming. Why males?--we asked Michelle....."Over the past 3 years of sterilization campaigns we have seen male dogs with terrible wounds from fighting over females on heat, many of these wounds being left untreated. Added to this are TVT cases, scrotum repairs, infected bite wounds and prolapses in male dogs. The aggression and fighting is horrific and they are often brutally treated by the community. Male dogs and cats are constantly “in season” – they do not have an off button!"
Animal Welfare Society in Cameroon is a 2nd time AKI grantee; their previous grant was in 2020. This year's grant project is Provision of supplemented feeding to 200 working donkeys of cotton producing farmers during periods of drought and intense activity in north of Cameroon. Starting in October, AWES will provide feed supplement for six months and supervise the feeding of donkeys belonging to registered farmer association members. AWES will also treat and provide medication to sick and injured donkeys. This will cover the period of drought and beginning of the farming season. Usually during drought periods, donkeys roam to find food and often are injured in road accidents and are subject to donkey theft for the skin trade.
Animal Smile Tanzania is a 1st time AKI grant recipient. Their grant project, Hands On Healing, will create future leaders in animal welfare while reducing animal suffering and protecting the public from zoonotic diseases. Ultimately, it will inspire kindness through direct care, learning, and community engagement. Specifically, Animal Smile will train 60 para-veterinary students over 6-months by providing hands-on experience vaccinating about 1000 dogs and 200 cats; spaying/neutering about 100 dogs and 20 cats; feeding cats and dogs; and participating in humane education. In Tanzania, the para-veterinary student curriculum is heavily weighted towards farm animals and many para-vet graduates are uncomfortable handling and treating companion animals. Alpha, Director of Animal Smile, told us "We witnessed real change during our 2023 pilot at Visele, where students who once avoided dogs and cats became confident in treating and handling and started enjoying compassionate life. Through education, by equipping youth with knowledge and skills, we are creating that love and care for animals and eventually protecting the public from zoonotic diseases."
Blind Love in South Africa received two previous AKI grants. For their 2025 grant project, Population Donkey - Protect. Prevent. Preserve, Blind Love will use a contraceptive injection to reduce and stabilize the working donkey population in Makhanda/ Grahamstown, which has a population of about 6000 working donkeys. Road accidents and roaming donkeys have resulted in legal action with threats of mass round-up. If this happens, impounded donkeys would be sold for slaughter or into the illegal donkey skin trade. The contraceptive campaign will be the first phase in a multi-year plan. If rolled out consistently over the next 4-5 years, the donkey population can be brought to a manageable, stable level. The goal for this project is to inject 500 male donkeys prior to the 2025/26 breeding season.
INADES Formation, Kenya is a 1st time AKI grant recipient. Their grant project, "Protecting the Future of Working Donkeys" will enhance INADES' capacity to fight theft and illegal bush slaughter of donkeys in Machakos, Makueni, and Kajiado counties. The grant project will fund the construction, at INADES Formation's learning center and demonstration-farm, of a hay barn with the capacity to hold up to 1000 bales of hay and a donkey shelter with stables and feeding and watering areas. It will also provide veterinary care of rescued donkeys (nutrient supplements, external parasite control, and de-worming) and transport for re-homing. The project will strengthen INADES role as a partner in rescuing and ensuring donkey welfare issues are addressed while awaiting court ruling.
Triglav Trust in Namibia is a 1st time AKI grantee. The Trust's main goal is to trap, neuter, vaccinate and return feral and domestic cats, as well as re-home surrendered cats and kittens. Triglav's grant project, Creating a safe, dry and warm cattery in the sanctuary for the rescues will install roof sheeting over the entire cattery to make the roof water tight against rain. Currently, the catteries flood completely with even the lightest rain as the water runs into the catteries at the roof nails and where roof sheets overlap. They will also insulate the catteries from the extreme heat and cold temperatures during the day and night. It may be surprising to some, but Windhoek is known for its extreme temperature difference from mornings to daytime to evenings, sometimes fluctuating as much as 30 degrees Celsius.
Tanzania Small Animal Veterinary Organization is a 3rd time AKI grantee plus the recipient of a $1000 award for being a top 2024 AKI grantee, one that could effectively use the additional funding. TASAVO's 2025 grant project is the Humane population control of roaming dogs and cats together with public animal welfare education and awareness. TASAVO will continue their trap, neuter, vaccinate, return activities and provision of vet care for cats and dogs at several locations around Dar. A main focus of this year's grant project is the University of Dar es Salaam, where mass shooting of roaming animals was planned until TASAVO advocated for the humane TNVR approach along with welfare education.
Start Over Sanctuary-Israel cares for more than 1,100 rescued donkeys and ~100 horses. Most of these animals were used to haul carriages with heavy loads until they collapsed on the road, sick, starving, some with broken legs, all with deep, bleeding and contaminated wounds. Start Over's 2025 grant project, their 2nd AKI grant, is A Big Shed in the New Donkeys Compound. The new shed will be made of metal arches and nylon covers (like one of their existing sheds-->but larger). The grant we funded to SoS last year also constructed a shed for donkeys rescued from conflict areas, and then, with additional donations to AKI for SoS, we were able to support vet care for some of the donkeys rescued from Gaza.
Animal Welfare Grantees: Latin America/Caribbean
Amor y Abrigo in Honduras will implement their 2025 grant project, Sterilization campaigns - a future without abandonment, in partnership with Zamorano college, to sterilize 80 animals to help reduce the homeless animal population. Zamorano's campus attracts many roaming cats and dogs and when Zamorano requested help from Animal-Kind International, we connected them to Amor y Abrigo. Even before receiving the AKI grant, the two organizations started their joint project. With the grant, they will continue to s/n animals at Zamorano, as well as Amor y Abrigo's other target locations. Paola at Zamorano told us, "We at Zamorano decided to directly contribute the transitional hotel project, and with A & A complement it with the sterilization program since, being in our area, it will help reduce the overall stray animal population." We think this is a great partnership! (pictures below are Zamorano's "transitional hotel"--for the campus's roaming animals).
Asociación Huellas De Amor - Colombia will spay 85 female dogs in vulnerable areas of Buenaventura to reduce overpopulation, prevent animal suffering, and promote well-being in communities affected by poverty. Huellas De Amor chose this location for their grant project, Ethical Control of the Canine Population in High-Vulnerability Areas – Buenaventura 2025, because they're already actively working in Buenaventura, one of the areas most affected by poverty, violence, and animal abandonment. They've rescued many animals from there, provided veterinary care, and, when possible, have held sterilization campaigns. Manuela wrote to us, "Because the crisis here is more severe and the violence and inequality have left animals completely unprotected. The absence of sustained sterilization campaigns perpetuates the cycle of suffering and abandonment. With international resources, we can break that cycle and be part of the change."
Fondation Alliance Verte in Port au Prince, Haiti will implement their 2025 grant project, Prevention is crucial! Help needed to protect our shelter in Port-au-Prince Haiti. The project's goal is to keep everyone safe and maintain a healthy environment at their shelter and in their neighborhood (Delmas). FAV vaccinates (rabies and combo) every new rescue, once fit enough, and of course, every year FAV must raise the funds to get all the shelter dogs vaccinated. Fondation Alliance Verte is a good neighbor and also helps vaccinate neighbor dogs whose owners cannot afford to pay for shots. With the grant from AKI, FAV will vaccinate all the dogs at the shelter, currently a total of 52, and remaining vaccines will be used for dogs belonging to impoverished neighbors. FAV operates the only shelter in Haiti (some pictures below), a country plagued by extreme poverty, political instability, and rampant violence. Marylin, FAV's Director, wrote, "It is a struggle to continue operation in such difficult environment but we won’t stop."
Fundación Vida de Gatos Chile rescues, rehabilitates, and rehomes abandoned and/or abused kittens in Santiago. Their grant project, More Sterilizations, Less Abandonment, will reduce animal abandonment and suffering through free cat sterilization in vulnerable communities of Santiago. Vida de Gatos will provide 100 free sterilizations and rabies and core vaccines in communities with a high abandonment rate. Worldwide, as compared to puppies, dogs, and kittens, adult cats are the least likely to be spayed or neutered and to be abandoned (often when pregnant or after a litter when the kittens are kept, and the mama cat is thrown out), and they are the least likely to be adopted.
The Rivadeneira Sterilization Center in Ecuador will raise awareness via schools and Catholic churches about the importance of sterilization and promote responsible pet ownership, demystifying misconceptions and answering questions about the procedure. Their grant project, Sterilize to transform lives, will perform 90 sterilization surgeries on companion animals, estimating that 90% of them will be female. They chose the location, San Pablo de Atenas, because during their previous sterilization campaign, they witnessed firsthand how animals in this rural town are mistreated and abandoned on roads and to mitigate the serious problem of transmissible venereal tumor that plagues the San Pablo sector of Atenas. Also, they have the support of a congregation of nuns who will provide the Center with a house to use for the surgery location in the heart of the town, allowing easy access for attendees without having to travel long distances.
Our Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program is no longer accepting proposals. Please check back in May 2026 when we will open our 9th annual Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program.
More about our 2025 grant program here:
The 2025 FAQs are here
The 2025 AKI Grant Application is here
A HUGE thank you to our 13-member proposal review committee with members from Spain, Kenya, Australia, US, and the UK, and with expertise in animal welfare, grant management, international development, and more!
Our grant program is 100% donor-funded! We are grateful to our supporters for their generosity. To help us fund more grant projects: DONATE HERE & WRITE IN THE COMMENT LINE: GRANTS 2025.
To see our previous grantees and grant projects (2018-2024), go to "Our Grant Program" on the AKI website.