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Worldwide Small Grants Awardees 2023

Dogs Trust Worldwide understands the scale of suffering faced by dogs all around the world, and we aim to support local organisations, who share our vision and values, to help improve the lives and welfare of dogs worldwide. 

In 2023 Dogs Trust Worldwide awarded a number of grants of up to £10,000 to provide support to non-for-profit organisations across the world to improve their local rehoming practices to help the lives of dogs and cats in their care and within their communities.  

We received an extremely high calibre and number of applications for this funding, and we are pleased to share details of the selected organisations and their projects. 

 

 

Education for African Animals Welfare (EAAW)  

EAAW is a Tanzanian NGO with the aim to promote and foster animal welfare, care, and protection, by creating awareness among community members. Their programmes include dog and cat projects (anti-rabies provision, wound treatment, and community awareness). 

Our grant will allow them to purchase a second-hand 4x4 vehicle and equipment to support their rabies education and community engagement programme. Many of the areas they want to reach have very poor roads, and the vehicle will enable them to reach areas which they were not previously able to access. In addition, they will design improved educational resources to hold the attention of children and people better. With this project they will cover two districts, aiming to reach over 425,000 people. 

 

The Global Alliance for Animals and People (The GAAP) 

GAAP is a Chilean NGO providing subsidised veterinary treatments at their low-cost, non-for-profit clinic in Valdivia. The grant will allow for the purchase of a bank of stainless-steel kennels (one of them temp and oxygen controlled) to increase the number of animals they can treat on-site, a surgery table and lamp and equipment to stabilise critical and paediatric patients body temperatures, positively impacting 400 – 500 dogs per year.  

 

Tree of Life for Animals (TOLFA) 

TOLFA is an NGO operating in Rajasthan, India who provide veterinary care, rescue, and rehabilitation to owned and stray animals on the streets and at their shelter, as well as rabies vaccination, Animal Birth Control and education programmes.  

The grant will help them rebuild their existing 60 dog kennel block, which has been damaged by repeated severe flooding; raising the floor and changing the layout to protect from future flooding

 

Buckaroo   

Buckaroo is a South African NGO providing canine veterinary treatments, sterilisation drives and equipment to uplift owned dog welfare in three impoverished, rural settlements surrounding East London 

The grant will allow them to purchase a vehicle, supporting more sterilisations as they will be able to transport animals to and from the vets for surgery, without relying only on the use of volunteers.

 

Red De Apoyo Canino (RAC)      

RAC is a Venezuelan NGO who undertake free and low cost spay and neuter for stray and owned dogs; rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome critical cases at their 50-dog capacity shelter in Higuerote, and run a foster programme for puppies. The grant will allow them to rebuild their damaged kennel buildings, so they can provide shelter to additional dogs on-site.

Mdzananda Animal Clinic  

Mdzananda Animal Clinic is a permanent, veterinary animal clinic in the township of Khayelitsha just outside Cape Town, South Africa. Their mission is to enhance wellbeing for animals and their community through hospitalisation, sterilisation, mobile clinics, an animal ambulance, homeless pet adoptions and humane education. 

The grant will support them to build a kitten/puppy facility to provide temporary shelter for those waiting to be adopted, including a socialisation and exercise area and a meet and greet space for potential adopters.

 

TAWESO  

TAWESO are a Tanzanian NGO with 10 centres around Tanzania, mostly staffed by volunteers, who work to improve the welfare of animals across the country. 

The grant will help them to improve their rehoming by renovating an old area of kennels and repairing a vehicle, benefitting 200 dogs. 

 

Amici Cannis 

Amici Cannis is a not-for-profit organisation in Cotacachi, Ecuador, providing veterinary care to the owned and stray dog population in Cotacachi and surrounding villages at their veterinary hospital. The grant will part-fund the purchase of a new vehicle to replace their small, rented truck and improve the safety and welfare of dogs being transported to their clinic for treatment, as well as increase the number of dogs that can be transported at the same time.

 

RSPCA Victoria  

RSPCA Victoria operates a comprehensive range of services in the state of Victoria, Australia, including animal shelters, veterinary clinics, outreach programmes, and an animal cruelty inspectorate. The grant will purchase essential specialist equipment to be used to care for 295 dogs that have been seized or surrendered to their cruelty inspectorate officers and are in need of foster care. Additionally, this grant will enable the organisation to bolster their foster care network back to its pre-COVID level, further increasing their capacity to help even more animals in need.

 

Lucky Animals Protection Shelter (LAPS) 

LAPS operates a small shelter for 250 dogs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PakistanIn September 2022, heavy monsoon rains led to severe flooding, damaging the shelter. This grant will cover the cost of rebuilding 9 kennels/enclosures including installation of appropriate drainage and flood barriers.