Animal Welfare Eswatini Project #17105

Using Animal Care to Promote Empathy in Children

by Vusumnotfo

Project Report | May 30, 2014
#2/Swaziland Animal Welfare Society (SAWS)

By Margaret Dean Smith | Swaziland Animal Welfare Society (SAWS)

Babe Mkhonta with a rescue kitty at SAWS

On May 13, Vusumnotfo staff traveled to Mbabane to visit Swaziland Animal Welfare Society (SAWS). SAWS is one of the partners helping Vusumnotfo with this project, along with Swaziland Veterinary Association and Waterford Kamhlaba/Community Service AWARE.

This visit served the purpose of ensuring that Vusumnotfo staff are well versed in the common issues around animal care in Swaziland.

SAWS is a Swazi registered Not-For-Profit that was formed more than 50 years ago. We run 2 ‘open admission’ shelters – one in Mbabane the capital, and the other in Manzini the commercial hub.

In 2013, SAWS Mbabane shelter had a daily average of 30 welfare & stray dogs/cats and over 200 pets were adopted during that year.

In the course of our general work we assist the Government Vets with ‘man-power’ when they run a Rabies vaccination campaign and support the local Municipalities & Police when requested to do so.

This is the second Spay/Neuter Clinic we have run and our aim is to sterilize at least 50 dogs/cats on the day. We have the capacity to vaccinate, de-worm and treat a further 150. 15 of our local Vets have offered their time FREE of charge to help Mshingishingini community who have little or no access to veterinary care locally.

Combined with the clinic we hope to achieve some basic animal care education in the community to ensure that the work done at the clinic is sustained.

Please donate towards this project and help both the animals and their humans to achieve a better wellness status.

Vusumnotfo staff learning from Simon Mamba of SAWS

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