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Introduction

This quarter has been full of activities for Globalteer. Our long-term vision is a world where human and animal suffering are minimised, and the future of our planet is safeguarded by effectively harnessing the goodwill of people who share our vision. Little by little, we are helping to make a difference, and every donation we receive ensures that we can keep supporting our wonderful projects and partners across Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Sports for rural children in Cambodia

The vision of Globalteer’s Sports Programme is a generation of young Cambodian people for whom sports – and all the health, lifestyle and life-skills benefits that go with them – are a natural and integral part of their lives.

Established in 2007 this programme is designed to bring sports to underprivileged children in the rural Siem Reap province, who otherwise have very limited access to them.

Sports help to improve children's fitness and physical condition, as well as teach important personal and interpersonal skills, like self-confidence, self-esteem, respect, teamwork, leadership, and discipline. Participation in sports helps to empower all children to access better future opportunities and dream bigger. Sports can also empower girls to make their own choices, take more active roles in society and control their own lives.

The last quarter has seen us provide improved clean drinking water for the children at our Helping Hands School. The previous system was not producing enough water for the kids to drink during sports sessions, so we purchased a bigger system which now gives them all the pure water they need.

We have improved the facilities at the six rural partner schools so we can safely deliver sports sessions. We have delivered truck loads of earth to level the grounds and raise it so it does not flood in rainy season.

Roaming dogs in Peru

PAWS – Peru Animal Welfare Society – was formed by Globalteer in Cusco, Peru, in 2019. Globalteer had long been aware of the problems faced by roaming animals in the Cusco region and has supported a local dog shelter with volunteers and contributions for many years. The PAWS project was created to reduce the suffering of roaming animals in Cusco city and surrounding villages, as well as address the underlying issues that contribute to their numbers.

The Mobile Veterinary Clinic works in rural villages around Cusco where there is no access to veterinary care and there are high numbers of roaming dogs. These villages contribute to the roaming dog population in Cusco, as residents take puppies into the city to sell them, and they often abandon them there, if sales are unsuccessful. By taking veterinary care to villages where it is otherwise non-existent, we help reduce suffering from common diseases. Free neutering in the villages controls future dog and cat populations, in turn reducing the perceived need for culling or other inhumane population control methods. Additionally, education to change human behaviour towards animals will improve animal welfare and care in the long term.

By the end of last year, we had carried out regular visits to 32 communities and shelters. Our teams carried out nearly 3,000 health-checks for the animals registered with us. We also neutered 279 animals, around 66% of them female.

Only 6% of the animals were neutered and most had never been vaccinated.

The age range of the animals was very telling.

Of the animals registered in 2022:

0.8% were over 10 years old

3.4% were over 5 years old

15% were over 2 years of age

80% were under 2 years old.

This is due to the unhealthy lives of the dogs and cats as well as many dying young from accidents, poisoning and disease.

Glasses for the children – meet Sofia

Sofia is renowned as one of our most hilarious and sociable students at our Picaflor House school in Peru. Sofia enjoys coming to Picalfor every day and never fails to bring a smile to all her peers and teachers' faces. However, inside the classroom, Picaflor's teachers noticed she struggles to see the board and has difficulty reading and writing as a result. After speaking to her mother, we were told whilst she knew of her daughter's difficulty seeing, she could not afford to send her to get her eyesight tested.

Picalfor House is currently working to fund glasses for Sofia and others like her so they can achieve at school and in the future. Regardless of background or ability, every child should have the opportunity to succeed. We look forward to seeing all that Sofia and her peers go on to achieve.