Volunteer Programme
Dear Animal Welfare Ally,
Have you ever felt the tug in your heart when you think about helping to conserve and protect animals? ANAW bids you to live your dream.
Eleven years on, the Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW) is thriving at a time where human beings and animals mutually co-exist, in an age where development is rife with the constant expansion of infrastructure all around the country. ANAW has morphed into an organization that faces emerging formidable challenges locally and internationally while maintaining the successful impact on animals and people achieved by its work.
Africa is a continent that is home to myriads of animals roaming free in plains, forests, bogs and marshlands, lakes and rivers and at home. Seaside creatures dominate the aquatic landscapes while more than 1100 bird species have been spotted. A need was identified to cater for the well-being of these animals.
Human-wildlife conflict, urban development, bush-meat trade, human encroachment and ivory and rhino horn trade have brought the numbers of these species population down. Dictated by tradition, culture and the need to survive, millions of communities in rural and urban areas lack sufficient knowledge on good animal welfare practices. Animals undergo suffering and abuse in several forms.
ANAW works to address these issues on a day to day basis through its programs with focus to the five freedoms of animal welfare: freedom from hunger and thirst, freedom from discomfort, freedom from pain, injury and disease, freedom to express normal behavior and freedom from fear and distress.
Therefore, it is imperative that we join hands. You will lend much-needed help to protect, care for and conserve these animals. In your quest to help and express love to Africa’s animals, do not hesitate to write to us.