Street dog crisis in northern Tanzania.

Can you imagine being a street dog in Arusha? To wake up and fight for your life every day – plagued by agonizing hunger and disease. We are their only hope.

The dogs truly have no alternative – it is their cruel and unfortunate fate to be born, live and die on the streets. But with your help, we can bring them much-needed respite from the suffering. Together with our partner, the Arusha Society for the Protection of Animals (ASPA), we are working around the clock to help alleviate the suffering of stray dogs living in harsh conditions and to sterilize as many as we can to minimize the problem in the future.

With our financial support, ASPA conducts mobile clinics to deworm, vaccinate, sterilize and provide veterinary treatment to as many street dogs as possible. Sterilization is critical as it prevents countless thousands of unwanted puppies from being born into the same cycle of hardship. Regular vaccination rollouts are also vitally important to halt the spread of deadly diseases such as rabies.

Mobile veterinary clinics are a proven, effective way to help animals in need. With your help, we will get our vets on the road and to the animals as SOON as possible.

Currently, our team is doing their very best to treat animals using the equipment they have. They set up their surgical tables on bustling street corners, but this is a chaotic, noisy environment where it is challenging to maintain optimal hygiene standards.

What the animals really need is a quiet, sterile area in which to receive their treatment. Most have never received any veterinary care before, so being held down while people surround them must be a confusing and scary experience.

Street dogs undergoing sterilization are ALREADY anxious, and the presence of a crowd during surgical procedures elevates their stress. We must urgently equip our team with a mobile vet clinic where animals can receive treatment in an environment as similar to a veterinary clinic as possible.

If we can raise $10,000 (£8,000), we can purchase a fully-equipped mobile veterinary unit and provide these vulnerable animals with the care they desperately deserve in a secure, sterile and stress-free environment.

Please stand with us to give Arusha’s street dogs better care and a better life, one step at a time, by donating as generously as you possibly can today.

For the animals,

Gloria Davies (and Max and Flora!)
Founder and CEO
Network for Animals

P.S. Every donation, no matter how big or small, counts! Your immediate support will make a significant difference in the lives of street dogs in Arusha. Imagine the transformative impact of a mobile veterinary unit, delivering vital, life-saving treatment and immediately easing animals’ pain. Please donate today and help us give desperate street animals a respite from their suffering.

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