By Sarah Bergs | Project Leader
The last month or so saw us focusing more on sterilizing female dogs to really try to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and puppied! HALO, a local Hoedspruit NGO assisted us with funding for a few female dogs and we are very grateful to have been able to sterilize 6 females in the last 2 months, including the rescue puppies (who you might recall we found almost at birth thrown away in a plastic bag in the bushes, not all puppies survived, so its pretty special that we are at the point of sterilizing Joey, Survivor and Mona)
In addition - we are focusing on training for Benneth, Martin and Tinyiko who run the animal outreach - they are taking more ownership and getting more hands on during their Thursday outreaches into the village, and also have started joining HALO on their outreaches to gain more confidence in handling animals, treating wounds, injecting medication etc. I am most proud of this process-- so see the growth in my staff as people, and the kindness they show with animals, the pride they show now that they are able to inject. This is so empowering for them as people - and this is the kind of thing that will create ripples in their own communities as they lead the way caring for dogs!
Thank you to every for the amazing support
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