MERU ANIMAL WELFARE ORGANIZATION
About organization
Meru
Animal Welfare Organization (MAWO) is a nonprofit animal-welfare organization
working in Meru District. In 2010 MAWO undertook an initial baseline survey of
the ten villages in the district to enhance the current animal welfare status
in the area. The aim of this survey was to provide an empirical foundation for
MAWO and to make strategic decisions involving the allocation of project
resources and the design of the project components. The organization was
established in order to address the five freedoms of the animals, of which most
farmers in the area are not aware:
1. Freedom from hunger and thirst
2. Freedom from discomfort
3. Freedom from pain, injury and disease
4. Freedom from fear and distress
5. Freedom to express normal behavior
The organization operates mainly in the Meru District Council in order to bring a lasting impact to the area before moving to other areas in Tanzania. The Headquarters are in USA River , Meru District, Arusha Region.
1. Freedom from hunger and thirst
2. Freedom from discomfort
3. Freedom from pain, injury and disease
4. Freedom from fear and distress
5. Freedom to express normal behavior
The organization operates mainly in the Meru District Council in order to bring a lasting impact to the area before moving to other areas in Tanzania. The Headquarters are in USA River , Meru District, Arusha Region.
Meru Animal Welfare
Organization was founded in 2010 to carry out the following:
MISSION: The mission of organization is to protect all animals from torture, abuse, cruelty, diseases, and killing.
VISION: Animals should be respected as living creatures who experience pain, fear, and suffering
AIM: The aim of the organization shall be to promote, improve and develop of any matter concerning the protection of animals and understanding of animals among the people of Meru District, Tanzania without gaining any profit.
MISSION: The mission of organization is to protect all animals from torture, abuse, cruelty, diseases, and killing.
VISION: Animals should be respected as living creatures who experience pain, fear, and suffering
AIM: The aim of the organization shall be to promote, improve and develop of any matter concerning the protection of animals and understanding of animals among the people of Meru District, Tanzania without gaining any profit.
OBJECTIVES:
- To promote respect and
compassion for animals through our activities, campaigns, and education
in schools
- To develop and deliver practical advice on the prevention and control of noticeable and endemic diseases in livestock
- To transform the way animals are treated and perceived by humans
- To build awareness in the community on the importance of keeping livestock in safe housing rather than leaving them to roam unprotected
- To build animal shelters and a donkey sanctuary
- To lobby for public and government changes for benefit of people, as well as domestic animals
- To do a research on animal welfare statistics in Tanzania
- To enforce existing animals laws and anti-poaching campaigns- To prevent unwanted and populations animals and birds through neutering and outreach programs
- To develop and deliver practical advice on the prevention and control of noticeable and endemic diseases in livestock
- To transform the way animals are treated and perceived by humans
- To build awareness in the community on the importance of keeping livestock in safe housing rather than leaving them to roam unprotected
- To build animal shelters and a donkey sanctuary
- To lobby for public and government changes for benefit of people, as well as domestic animals
- To do a research on animal welfare statistics in Tanzania
- To enforce existing animals laws and anti-poaching campaigns- To prevent unwanted and populations animals and birds through neutering and outreach programs
ACTIVITIES:
- To provide educational material with detailed health and nutritional information for the owners of livestock
- To educate the community on the importance of de-worming and vaccination of animals
- To educate women's groups in the community on animal welfare
- To train the community on the effects of environmental degradation
- To participate in national campaigns, conferences, seminars, workshops
- To solicit technical assistance and expertise from competent professionals within and outside of Tanzania
- To sensitize and conduct meetings/seminars on animal welfare programs
- To provide educational material with detailed health and nutritional information for the owners of livestock
- To educate the community on the importance of de-worming and vaccination of animals
- To educate women's groups in the community on animal welfare
- To train the community on the effects of environmental degradation
- To participate in national campaigns, conferences, seminars, workshops
- To solicit technical assistance and expertise from competent professionals within and outside of Tanzania
- To sensitize and conduct meetings/seminars on animal welfare programs
VOLUNTEERING AND MEMBERSHIP
MEMBERSHIP:
We invite you to become a member of organization to help to Meru Animal Welfare Organization. By doing so, you will help them to continue their efforts of helping animals in the Arusha/Meru community and will receive news on events, updates, volunteer opportunities, and current projects.
To become a member, please send an e-mail.
We invite you to become a member of organization to help to Meru Animal Welfare Organization. By doing so, you will help them to continue their efforts of helping animals in the Arusha/Meru community and will receive news on events, updates, volunteer opportunities, and current projects.
To become a member, please send an e-mail.
VOLUNTEER:
MAWO welcomes any volunteer to work with them on site at their mobile animal clinics, water troughs construction, or other monthly projects. If you would like to donate your time or services in other ways, they welcome all ideas and suggestions. If you would like to volunteer, please send an e-mail.
If you are already our member, we would like to thank you. Please share this information with other friends so they too may support their project.
CURRENT
PROJECTS:
EDUCATION
INITIATIVES: By working and teaching
in primary schools around the Meru area, they believe they can help the next
generation to have the tools and knowledge necessary to respect and care for
all animals. Their educational outreach also includes seminars offered to the
animal owners at the local markets. Because the animal owners working at the
market come from many different areas and will likely return home at the end of
each day to share the animal welfare information with their villages, they are
able to more widely disseminate their educational messages throughout the area.
They are also currently planning to conduct seminars at the Livestock Collage
and host animal-welfare training for government livestock officers. In 2012,
they created an Educational Guide to better serve and teach school children
through earning activities and story-telling lessons.
DOG
AND DONKEY CLINICS: Thanks to a generous
grant from Humane Society International, MAWO is currently conducting monthly
donkey and dog clinics in the Meru Area. At each DOG clinic, they offer free
rabies vaccinations, de-worming medication, and iodine wound spray. At each
DONKEY clinic, they provide free de-worming medication; iodine wound spray,
consultation on proper harnessing equipment, and hoof care. Volunteers are welcome!
DOG
FLEA BATHS: Each
Saturday from 6:00-9:00am, MAWO helps supervise and staff the dog flea bath at
the vet clinic of our MAWO staff, Dr. Bwanga. This is an opportunity to teach
dog owners and proper care, treatment, and handling of their dogs. They display
proper collars and leashes to demonstrate the ideal equipment for the dogs. Volunteers are welcome each week!
DONKEY
WATER TROUGHS: The
most common use of donkeys is to act as material transportation. Donkeys are
often traveling to the markets from distant villages (7 km distance or more),
burdened with heavy luggage and market goods. With materials on their backs,
the donkeys start their journeys early in the morning and arrive at market
around noon. With nothing to eat or water to drink at the market, the donkeys
are tied to rocks or posts in the sun all day. At the end of the day, owner and
donkey start yet another trek to return home, often arriving after dark which
is too late late to allow the donkey to graze for food. Thus, on such market
days the donkeys often experience a great deal of hunger and especially thirst.
We are currently planning to build several water troughs in a number of markets
in the Meru area, thereby allowing the donkeys to drink adequate amount water
and remain hydrated. Fundraising is imperative for this project and we need
your support to make it possible.
BUDGET: Stones and water for cement mixture will be donated by the villages; MAWO will purchase the sand for the concrete mixture at $90USD per trough; 8 bags of cement are needed for each trough at $15USD per bag; fee for construction workers will cost roughly $70USD per trough.
BUDGET: Stones and water for cement mixture will be donated by the villages; MAWO will purchase the sand for the concrete mixture at $90USD per trough; 8 bags of cement are needed for each trough at $15USD per bag; fee for construction workers will cost roughly $70USD per trough.
DOG
MOBILE CLINIC: In the next year, they intend to
conduct four mobile dog clinics each month with an average of 200 dogs
attending, and at least 100 educational leaflets distributed at each
clinic. Their aim is to promote dog issues relating to their well-being
and create an understanding, appreciation, and improvement on the dog welfare
among their owners and other people. This will involve training in the
topics of housing, feeding, general care of dogs, primary health care of dogs,
recognition of sick dogs, worm control, skin diseases and parasites, and dog
training. At the end of the project, the dog owners will have gained the knowledge
necessary to determine the problems facing their animals and be able to apply
these lessons to their daily work. This will not only benefit the dog, but also
the families due to the health and efficiency of their dog.
BUDGET: Rabies vaccination (10mls) costs $10USD and can treat 10 dogs; de-worming medication (500mls) costs $55USD and can treat 500 dogs; two bottles of iodine and wound spray purchased at a local clinic costs $3USD and can treat roughly 50 dogs; the cost for spaying and neutering services will vary but will be offered at such clinics and a small allowance for the vets to carry out this procedure is also necessary.
BUDGET: Rabies vaccination (10mls) costs $10USD and can treat 10 dogs; de-worming medication (500mls) costs $55USD and can treat 500 dogs; two bottles of iodine and wound spray purchased at a local clinic costs $3USD and can treat roughly 50 dogs; the cost for spaying and neutering services will vary but will be offered at such clinics and a small allowance for the vets to carry out this procedure is also necessary.
VETERINARY
SERVICES:
They are currently conducting monthly donkey clinics at village markets. They
are able to reduce the the animal's suffering by treating wounds, providing
de-worming medication, and offering treatment for eye-care and hoof infections.
This initiative helps them to invite animal owners to discuss the welfare of
their donkeys and educate them on how to care for and respect their
animals. They have also held several dog clinics in a number of villages.
There, they offer de-worming medication, rabies vaccinations, and spaying and
neutering services. With the large number of stray and homeless dogs in the
villages, it is imperative that education on the welfare and spaying/neutering
of these animals is continued. All of the services described above are
free of charge to the animal owners.
BUDGET: Ivomec medication (500mls) used for donkey de-worming costs $55USD and can treat roughly 125 donkeys; Almaysin and Iodine (100mls) used for treating wounds costs $3USD and can treat 10-15 donkeys; We currently have hoof and eye care medicine in stock and are able to treat roughly 70-120 donkeys at each clinic.
BUDGET: Ivomec medication (500mls) used for donkey de-worming costs $55USD and can treat roughly 125 donkeys; Almaysin and Iodine (100mls) used for treating wounds costs $3USD and can treat 10-15 donkeys; We currently have hoof and eye care medicine in stock and are able to treat roughly 70-120 donkeys at each clinic.
EQUIPMENT
TRAINING: To
protect donkeys from the painful cuts caused by ropes holding the materials to
them, they are creating safety harnesses made from inexpensive and easily
available materials. They use a 'pillow' made of cloth bags to protect the
donkey's back and neck and then place the ropes inside rubber water hose pipes
to act as a soft cushion and avoid rope wounds. They provide these materials to
a small number of donkey owners free of cost so that they might act as examples
for other donkey owners who can then easily and inexpensively purchase and
fasten the hose and pillows themselves in their villages.
BUDGET: Each donkey requires 1 meter of hose pipe. 100 meters of this pipe cost $86 USD; Cloth bags used as back and neck 'pillows' cost $0.50 USD each.
BUDGET: Each donkey requires 1 meter of hose pipe. 100 meters of this pipe cost $86 USD; Cloth bags used as back and neck 'pillows' cost $0.50 USD each.
DONKEY
SANCTUARY: It
is their future goal to offer a place of solitude and healing for donkeys in
rehabilitation from injuries and abuse often inflected by their owners. They
are currently surveying a number of locations in the Meru area in search of a
place to create the MAWO Donkey Sanctuary. It will be run and organized by MAWO
volunteers and will also enable us to offer a place of education on healthy
donkey treatment to the Tanzanian people. There, they also intend to house a
couple of 'model donkeys' who will be brought to the market each week,
fashioned in humane and proper equipment and leading a cart in which they will
collect trash from the market. This will offer a display to the other donkey
owners on the correct way to care for and harness their donkeys. They are
currently fundraising to make this project a reality and they need your support
to make it possible!
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Ujamaa Hostel was created for volunteers and travlleres to provide the best quality low-cost accommodation and volunteer experiences in Arusha, Tanzania. It's fun, friendly, safe and affordable.
Ujamaa is the Swahili word for "extended family" which in Africa means that every individual work for the benefit of the community. It is the belief that community should be based on cooperation and that the advancement of the whole is the foundation for each individual's existence. This ideal is the basic for the Ujamaa Hostel where people can come together to share thier skills, expertise and enthusiasm with thise in need in the local community and have a whole lof of fun while doing it.
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