Now - Education In the first stage of our operation, we have developed and implemented
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.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.
As of July 2004, we started three public awareness campaigns:
- Spaying and neutering
- Dog fighting
- Kindness to all creatures
In addition to ads published in the Chronicle, we work at creating community awareness
towards these issues through our humane education program and collaborative work
with the Roseau Library.
