Archives: Shelter

Founded in 2005, Campaign Against Cruelty to Animals in Sierra Leone (CCA-SL) was founded by a coalition of Sierra Leoneans passionate about animal welfare and rights in their community.

Over the past 11 years CCA-SL has not only provided essential care and protection to the animals in their area but they have also brought humane education to the people of Sierra Leone though campaigns, radio shows and school programs.

SPCA International is thrilled to support Campaign Against Cruelty to Animals in Sierra Leone as they bring essential medical care and food to the hungry and sick community stray dogs.

https://www.facebook.com/ccasl.52005/?ref=page_internal

Founded in 2012 by Oana and her family, Asociatia Sava’s Safe Haven has brought essential care and safety to the stray and community animals of Galati, Romania. With only 4 volunteers and no employees, Sava’s Safe Haven provides a home to over 250 animals.

Every year Sava’s Safe Haven can see up to 100 dogs rehomed throughout Europe. In addition to their rehabilitation and rehoming of cats, dogs, and birds, Sava’s Safe Haven brings essential medical care to the community animals in their region. In a low-income area like Galati, the free medical care that Sava’s Safe Haven provides is vital to the health and well-being of all animals.

SPCA International is proud to support Sava’s Safe Haven in the modernization of their clinic and improvements to their shelter. This will allow Sava’s Safe Haven to help even more animals in desperate need. 

http://www.savasafehaven.com

Angela Cherry, after witnessing first hand the need to control the overpopulation of stray animals around the globe, founded Helping Paws Across Borders (HPAB) in 2003.  Although the non-profit group is based out of New Mexico, their reach extends far into South America and beyond.

HPAB is comprised of veterinarians and vet techs that volunteer their time year after year to provide quality medical care to poverty stricken areas for no cost. HPAB provides routine care but also major surgeries, treatment and Animal Humane Education to help improve the quality of life of animals and people.  From sea turtles to house cats, HPAB has provided medical care to 2,000+ animals and these numbers only continue to grow.

SPCA International is excited to support Helping Paws Across Borders this February with their clinics in Roatan, Honduras. These clinics will provide spay and neuter services, vaccines and education for the locals.

www.facebook.com/HelpingPawsAcrossBorders

Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel opened the first cat sanctuary in Syria in 2015 to feed and care for the cats left behind after their families fled from the war.

Mohammad alone feeds the 200 cats, and a few dogs, at the sanctuary every day. With the help of donations and his own resources, Mohammad provides a much-needed home to the forgotten cats of Aleppo.

SPCA International is incredibly proud to support Mohammad procure more food and construct a shelter for the animals he continues to care for. 

Founded in 2010 in Oradea, Romania, Asociatia Prietenii Pisicilor (Friends of Cats Association) has been a savior to the abandoned and neglected cats in their community.

Providing shelter to anywhere from 70-99 cats is no easy task, especially when there are only 5 volunteers available to help. All the cats and kittens rescued by Friends of Cats Association from the streets of Oradea receive proper medical care and lots of love before being adopted out into forever homes.

SPCA International is proud to support Friends of Cats Association and the incredible work they are already doing to help the stray cats in their community.

Website: www.prienteniipisicilor.ro

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prienteniipisicilor

Founded in 2016, Voice of animal-Nepal might be young but it’s goals are those that will greatly benefit the people and estimated 25,000 + stray animals in Kathmandu.

Voice of animal-Nepal aims to bring essential medical care to the stray animals of Kathmandu through sterilization and administration of rabies vaccines. Voice of animal-Nepal plans to open a boarding facility for local animals owners so that their animals are not abandoned when they must leave town. Additionally Voice of animal- Nepal will bring animal rights awareness to their community through school programs at all educational levels and a monthly radio broadcast.

SPCA International is thrilled to support this fledgling organization and their wonderful programs and cannot wait to watch their outreach grow. 

http://www.voan.org.np

Established in 2011 for the strict love and protection of animals, SPCA Straż Zwierzat Polska
or SPCA Poland Animal Guard in English, is the product of many activists from various organizations who formed a coalition because they simply couldn’t “go indifferent to the suffering of animals” anymore.

As a fledging young organization determined to make strides in the fight against animal cruelty in Poland, where there are few laws protecting animals, they are actively searching for support and acceptance from the public and local authorities.  Because the volunteers believe that animals are vulnerable, they suffer in silence, so becoming their voice is of greatest priority. Through education in schools and to the general public, spay and neuter clinics, rescue and rehabilitation of stray and abandoned animals, SPCA Straż Zwierzat Polska  hopes to diminish the number of acts of cruelty and neglect towards animals in Poland.

We were first contacted through our Shelter Program and have since formed a wonderful relationship with the young non-profit organization. We are honored to support their hard work and efforts and hope to continue to be a valuable source of information through their progress.

http://www.strazzwierzat.republika.pl/

Established in 2005, Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue was formed to facilitate the rescue of Draft and Draft Cross horses from slaughter, abuse, and neglect.

Slaughter is a highly profitable market and most of the public is unaware that buyers for the slaughterhouses frequent public auctions to purchase their horses. Gentle Giants makes it their goal to attend the same public auctions in order to outbid the meat buyer in order to provide these beautiful and often overworked animals with loving homes and the treatment and veterinary care they so deserve.

The organization is also devoted to raising public awareness through the use of brochures, pamphlets, and public presentations on the topics of horse slaughter and cruelty, the responsibilities of horse ownership, the over-population and over-breeding of horses, and how over-breeding contributes to the horse slaughter industry.  Gentle Giants houses over sixty head of draft horses, and has placed over 550 draft-breed horses into adoptive homes since they began.

A Shelter Support Grant from SPCAI will enable them to purchase some much needed equipment, such as, a horse sized sling and an ambulatory lift that would allow them to lift downed horses into a standing position for rescue, transport, and treatment.  These supplies would give them the ability to treat horses of all breeds, not just draft horses, and would also give Gentle Giants the opportunity to collaborate with other local humane agencies and equine veterinarians.

http://www.GentleGiantsDraftHorseRescue.org

Tanzania Animals Protection Organization (TAPO) is a non-government organization founded in 2000 focusing on the protection and welfare of all animals in the United Republic of Tanzania.  In 2005 TAPO became a registered animal welfare organization and boasts more than 50 members and supporters.

TAPO’s founder works with five volunteers to help educate the public in the city of Dar es Salaam through their “Relationships with Animals in our Communities” project. Constantly evolving their programs to address the issues faced by the public and animals, TAPO ensures that all major troubles are addressed. In addition to public and school education TAPO has also participated in National Farmers Day exhibitions and most recently started the Animal Mobile Clinic for Donkeys.

Through the month of September TAPO, with support from SPCA International, is running a rabies vaccine drive to help further protect the animals of Tanzania.

https://www.facebook.com/tapo.tanzania

https://www.facebook.com/TanzaniaTAPO

Greece has been a country in financial crisis for sometime now. Many people are struggling to keep afloat and unfortunately the first to pay the price is the family pet. Even though Greece has always had a large stray animal population, since the economic downfall, this number has exploded and with it comes an overwhelming number of injuries and incidences of cruelty because these dogs and cats that were once domesticated are now forced to live on the streets to fend for themselves.  

Noah's Little Ark in Chania, Crete, a small animal welfare and rescue group established in 1993 was founded by Silke Wrobela, a local citizen who could not longer turn her back on the homeless animals and decided to dedicate her life to looking after the stray and injured domesticated and wild animals of Chania, Crete.

Noah’s Little Ark, although recognized by the local government for its services, does not receive any funding for what they do. The costs for caring, feeding and vetting the overwhelming amount of strays that cross their paths are exorbitant. Although the police and fire departments, coast guard and municipality contact them for aid whenever they are faced with an injured or sick animal, the funding is non-existent.

As you can imagine, their expenses have skyrocketed and because the crisis is not  only limited to Greece, their donations have decreased as well. At the moment they have approximately 500 mouths to feed in their shelters and are finding it terribly difficult to keep up with expenses. They are working at a bare minimum with no heat, no electricity but their animals are fed and medically attended to as best they can. However, they fear that this will not be the case soon for the number of animals under their care is multiplying daily.  Sadly, the Greek government has stopped them from rehoming the dogs and cats to other parts of the world, so their only option is to desperately search for funding before they have to consider the unimaginable, turning the animals away.

A Shelter Support Grant from SPCA International will enable them to stay afloat for just a short while. Please consider sharing this page so they could get even greater help from animal lovers like you around the globe.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/littlenoahsark/