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ANIMAL WELFARE
AND PROTECTION ORGANIZATION

WE STAND FOR THE: RESPECT; COMPASSION; LOVE AND PROMOTE BETTER: CARE – HANDLING – TREATMENT FOR ALL TYPES OF ANIMALS. PLEASE DO NOT BE: CRUEL, ABUSIVE, PUTTING ANIMALS TO PAIN AND SUFFERING. THIS IMPROVES THEIR LIVES, THOSE OF THE LARGELY POOR DEPENDENT COMMUNITIES AND PROTECTS THE ENVIRONMENT

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What we do

Advocacy to influence reforms of the national policy frameworks to address all areas of the 5 Animal Freedoms,
Training of veterinary workers and the poor communities dependent on various types of animals on how best to care for such animals,
Educating primary school children to improve humane (compassion / kindness) care of man, animals and the environment through ANIMAL WELFARE CLUBS,
Using mobile veterinary clinics to humanely / compassionately reduce the high stray / feral lifestyle forced upon the community-based pets,
Using fixed and mobile veterinary clinics to improve the care, health and labor output of working animals for their dependent poor communities,
Using road checkpoints to reduce the still existing albeit banned cruel: sells, transportation and slaughter of donkeys for trade in their skins,
Investigating and advocating to reduce the cruel and abusive conditions of living in intensive and factory farming like systems,
Examining how to reduce methane from farmed animals for their: health; that of man and the increasing adverse climatic changes being associated to this gas globally,
Capacity building of veterinary workers and local communities in animal welfare disasters / emergencies and or in high-risk areas and participating in the actual response to the:
Flash Floods,
Mud and Land Slides;
Droughts;
Animal Disease Outbreaks;
Acute Problem of Straying / Feral Pets;
Displacement of Persons and Animals During Civil and other Disturbances

AWPO Vision

“Kindness given to animals is health and wealth to the households”

AWPO Mission

To facilitate the disadvantaged households through outreach services and enable the improvement of: kindness – compassion – love and humane care / handling of all types of animals using voluntary approaches.

AWPO Goal

To reduce pain and suffering in all type of animals and improve: their health and productivity; human health and household livelihoods.

The 5 animal freedoms

In animals, good conditions of living which lead to a good animal welfare status are recognized Internationally as the 5 ANIMAL FREEDOMS. When these freedoms are provided to animals, they address or prevent or mitigate on their:

-Thirst and hunger;

-Poor shelter /accommodation and sanitation;

-Injury – pain – disease;

-Mental and physical stress brought about by lack of respect, inadequate compassion –

love, cruelty, abuse and mistreatment of animals.

-Inadequate time for animals to perform their natural behaviors.

Animal Welfare Disaster Risk Reduction and Response by providing relief veterinary services for pets, working and food animals

Protecting working donkeys

Humane training - Animal Welfare Clubs

Protecting stray and village pets

The Eastern African Region has among the highest numbers of domestic and wild animal resources which also constitute a large biodiversity in conservation. Unfortunately, most of the domestic animals especially working, high confinement and or factory and pets and animals involved in animal welfare disasters / emergencies face high challenges in their lives.

Inadequate care or mistreatment thus pain and suffering in animals result into poor animal health thus low production in areas of their specialties. Such poor animal welfare status leads to collateral negative effects that also affects the health and livelihoods of the largely poor animal dependent communities and the environment. It is like a vicious cycle which needs essential and strategic intervention.

Inadequate care or mistreatment of animals is largely due to lack and or inadequate information leading to lack of respect of animals required by the Internationally Recognized 5 ANIMAL FREEDOMS. Inadequate care or mistreatment of animals is instituted by: cultural; group; individual and or mandated institutions.

Over 90% of all these domestic animals are kept in the rural setting by majority poor communities to enable socio-bonds and socio-economic benefits, however – many a community do not have the ability to maximally care – handle – treat these animals well because the communities themselves require external assistance to survive.

With the above animal, human and environmental challenges due to mistreatment and low care of animals - AWPO was born to help advocate for and intervene to improve the lives of animals, their poor dependent communities and the environment through volunteerism and aid/relief services during the seemingly normal and emergency / disaster time of animal welfare

The following areas of high risk where animals are bound to face life threatening or high: abuse; cruelty; mistreatment; pain and suffering have been identified by AWPO requiring Partnership with local and international partners to address and bring sanity to stakeholders and relief to animals involved:

Working animals (donkeys, horses, camels and some dogs),
Stray / feral (dogs and cats),
Intensive and factory farming animals (food animals),
Animals transported and at slaughter (food animals),
Displaced animals by various animal welfare emergencies / disasters (all types of animals including wild animals),