Now - Education In the first stage of our operation, we have developed and are implementing a humane education program, to be presented in Dominica’s schools and community centers as well as in our educational headquarters in Roseau. Without a growing pool of interested and caring minds, our efforts would be short-lived and we firmly believe that our foremost mission is to ensure that all children in Dominica have the opportunity to make informed choices when the time comes for them to consider wider community, environment and ecological issues. We hope our humane education program can complement the general curriculum in these areas.
Soon— Veterinary Trailer Clinic The grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation (DLF) of Canada is allowing us to move forward with a project which we thought we could not undertake until much later: a fund raising campaign to match the sum awarded by the DLF for the purchase and operation of a veterinary trailer clinic...We are happy to work towards this goal which will enable us to bring information as well as spay and neuter services throughout the island!
Later on - Emergency facilities and community services Funds permitting, our third project is to build an emergency shelter to hold homeless and neglected animals. Apart from our educational headquarters in town, which hold a small public space with educational tools such as documentation, books and videos dedicated to animal welfare, conservation and environment issues, we would like to be able to build a hands-on emergency shelter to give children and adults alike a place to drop by if they have affinities with our goals or if they need immediate assistance with a homeless or neglected animal. Land in Soufrière has been donated to us for this future project.
With the support of the community, we hope that all of these projects will be successful in making Dominica a world-class exemple of what an island nation can achieve in terms of fostering humane treatment of all its inhabitants, great and small.