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. Gambia - Sere Kunda - GambiCats . Animal Medical Care Foundation : In veel landen staat dierenwelzijn op een laag pitje. Vrijwilligers doen hun uiterste best om met vaak minimale middelen (soms zonder stromend water of electriciteit) de dieren te helpen. Steun van gemeente of overheid is ver te zoeken en men is grotendeels of soms volledig afhankelijk van giften. Het is niet moeilijk voor te stellen dat er dan nauwelijks geld is voor voedsel laat staan voor medische verzorging. Speelgoed is iets waar helemaal geen geld voor is en juist dit kan net een stukje plezier in het leven van een asiel hond of kat (of knaagdier) brengen. De Animal Medical Care Foundation heeft dierenwelzijn hoog in het vaandel, daarom willen wij helpen daar waar nodig is en waar behoefte aan is. Elk opvangcentra kan een lijst opgeven wat men nodig heeft, zo kunnen wij de donaties goed verdelen. Zo krijgt iedereen wat nodig is en voor de sponsors en donateurs is het goed om te zien dat hun donatie ook echt benut wordt.

. Gambia - Sere Kunda - GambiCats www.gambicats.org.uk . GambiCats started working with cats in The Gambia, West Africa, in 1998 and became a UK Registered Charity in 1999. Our objectives are to encourage neutering, and help improve the welfare of the cats and dogs. The programme started as a response to the poor conditions of many of the cats in the hotels and the methods being used to control their numbers. These included poisoning, and dumping cats in the countryside after catching them in nets. These methods were both inhumane and ineffective. It's going to be a tough summer for the hotel cats and beach dogs (and GambiCats).. With more hotels and restaurants than ever closing for periods of 3 - 7 months there is chaos at the moment. Hotels still open are being besieged by hungry cats from all round - including the Sheraton Hotel and the Gambia Experience office. We are taking on more staff to feed at special locations twice a day to entice the cats and dogs away from the hotels. Managers are getting complaints from guests while we try and get the cats used to the new routines!  Pet food is expensive in The Gambia, as is rice and bonga fish which we used to feed. Please help the cats and dogs get through this rainy season by helping GambiCats to meet the extra costs - otherwise we fear the hotels will start to poison again, or remove the cats and dogs to the bush where they stand little chance of survival!

. In May 1998, GambiCats brought together a team of 4 including a veterinary surgeon. They spent a week catching, neutering and returning to site the cats based at the Kombo Beach and Fajara hotels. This was a very successful start to the programme and the 2 neutered colonies remain in good health.  A central feeding point - the Cat Cafe - was established at the Kombo Beach hotel and it remains well patronised, not only by the cats, but by guests who enjoy seeing the cats and feeding them. A local fulltime co-ordinator, Mr Dodou F. Bojang, was appointed to maintain and expand the programme. As a result some 16 hotels, as well as the Royal Victoria Hospital, Banjul, joined the scheme. The Gambian government department responsible for controlling cats and dogs is the Department of Livestock Services (DLS) at Abuko. Their involvement in the humane neutering programme is vital and they have fully endorsed our methods in an advisory letter which they now give to all hotels. GambiCats believe that the programme will only be sustainable if it is based on the cooperation of vets in The Gambia, and is supported by Gambians themselves. As a result we helped to establish AWAG (the Association for the Welfare of Animals in The Gambia) which held its first meeting in 1998. AWAG is now a registered charitable organisation committed to improving animal welfare. Continuing GambiCats' successful programme will result in the cat colonies at each hotel remaining healthy and with supportable numbers. Cats, hotel managements and guests will all benefit. If Cat Cafes are established the cats are unlikely to haunt the restaurant areas for food, a habit which is rightly unpopular with many guests and all hotel managements. They also make it easier to monitor the health of the neutered cats and see when new cats come in. Experience in tourist resorts in Spain, Greece, Italy and other countries with similar neutering programmes shows that they work well if the colonies are regularly monitored and all newcomers caught and neutered.

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