This helping stray animals page has last been updated on October 15, 2024 @ 01:11.
The numbers below are an estimate of what has been achieved, based on reports from rescuers.
What we
have achieved
since 2009
helped
completed
therefore:
Hulpproject 183 – October 2024
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"Helping Stray Animals" has been supporting animals in need worldwide since 2009
What we do…
Short-Term Emergency Response
![Short-term emergency relief.<br /><br /> Through our Aid-Projects-of-the-Month, we support carefully selected small local projects to care for, vaccinate and sterilize injured stray animals. Usually, they are returned healthy to where they were picked up, and sometimes they come into a program that allows them to be adopted locally or in another country. Marlie cares for a wounded stray animals](https://helpingstrayanimals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f67c0__marlie_timmermans.jpg)
Longer term help
![A. Sterilization projects in about 20 shelters/clinics around the world. <br /> <br /> b. Mediation for veterinary students. <a href="https://www.dierenstages.nl"> <font>www.dierenstages.nl</font> </a> <br /> <br /> But also for volunteers without specific training, we have more than 10 selected asylums, where very useful work can be done for the animals. This is a separate website: <a href="https://dierenvrijwilligers.nl"><font color="#FFFF00">www.dierenvrijwilligers.nl</font></a> Vets operating on stray animals](https://helpingstrayanimals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/surgery-2.png)
Activities
![Sterilization: stimulating activities aimed at getting the stray animal population under control as well as possible.<br /><br /> This by means of the 'Catch, Castrate, Vaccinate and Bring Back' principle.<br /><br /> Usually in collaboration with Veterinary Medicine students. Stray animals on operating table](https://helpingstrayanimals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/vet-surgery.png)
Target audience
![All animal lovers, anywhere in the world, who agree with us that animals in need should receive more and better help. Animal friends adopting stray animals](https://helpingstrayanimals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/doelgroep.png)
Adoptions
![<div style="padding-bottom: 50px;color: #fff">Supporting existing organizations abroad, which, in addition to education and sterilisation, also are looking for addresses for adoption of a number of selected animals.</div> Man feeding stray animals](https://helpingstrayanimals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/stray-cats.png)
Websites
![1. Show through our websites that stray animals urgently need our help.<br /><br />2. Gathering and printing information, promoting our projects to those who wish to join us.<br /><br />3. Organize various activities to raise money for the realization of our goals.](https://helpingstrayanimals.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/dierenstages-mac-tiny.png)
Education
![<div style="line-height: 14px;color: #fff;font-size: 11pt;padding-bottom: 20px">Collecting, comparing, and summarizing existing education publications to produce material that can be used in educational programs. <br /><br /> This with the aim of gaining more respect in children for animals in general and animals in need in particular. It will be adapted as much as possible to local situations and specific cultures in the different countries.</div> Young boy with stray cat](https://helpingstrayanimals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/education.png)
Recruitment and money
![We only work with volunteers. <br /><br />We do not have expensive offices or other fixed costs. <br /><br />That is why we guarantee that 100% of all donations will benefit the stray animals.<br /><br />To achieve our goals, we try to involve donors, beneficiaries and sponsors. Volunteers of the foundation for helping stray animals](https://helpingstrayanimals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/werving-en-gelden.png)
![Help for stray animals ING bankgebouw](https://www.ing.com/upload/50bb14a4-39a6-4af2-b3f7-4815e4688c78_Amsterdamse-Poort_334x223.jpg)
Money management
We have an ING bank account where all funds are received.
Only the treasurer has access to this bank account, and she reports to the other board members as well as to the tax authorities.
Selection of requests for aid projects is done by the Secretary, who writes a proposal for the other board members to approve. Only if all board members agree, the aid project will be published on the website as 'Monthly Aid Project'.
We help stray animals that are constantly struggling. Fortunately, there are no more stray animals in the Netherlands, but in many countries there are still hundreds of thousands of strays.
How we work:
- We only work with volunteers and have been doing so since 2009.
- We are a hundred percent transparent.
- Not only that, but we only have 2 to 3% general costs. (At many foundations, this is an average of 28%).
- No salaries, no expensive lease cars.
- No costs for expensive offices.
- We don't have millions in the bank that should be spent on helping strays, but they aren't. (as is the case with various foundations).
- Our foundation is located in the Netherlands and is one of the very few small-scale organisations that helps reliable animal helpers worldwide.
- You can decide for yourself for which project your donation will be used.
- Weekly publication of aid projects' donations received.
- Visible reports of how donations have been used.
- Official ANBI (tax office) quality recognition.