Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page, focused on fundraising for the WSPA - The World Society for the Protection of Animals. I have chosen to support this cause, because Animals matter to me.

As the world's largest alliance of animal welfare organizations, WSPA works with its partners where animal welfare need is the greatest. Below are some of WSPA's greatest achievements, broken out by their four key project areas.

Project area #1: Disasters

Some key accomplishments with WSPA's partners in 2009:

• Costa Rica - tended to about 6,500 animals, from dogs and cats to farm animals, when earthquake struck.
• Samoa, Phillippines, and Indonesia - when tsunamis, cyclones, and earthquakes wreaked havoc, stopped the suffering of thousands of animals.
• Gaza - treated pets and livestock of 635 families and performed 83 surgeries.
• Bihar, India - administered emergency first aid to over a thousand animals affected by flooding.
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  WSPA are currently tending to thousands of animals suffering from the massive earthquake in Haiti.
  

Project area #2: Companion Animals

Worldwide - each year, WSPA helps tens of thousands of homeless dogs and cats struggling for survival on the streets.

Some key accomplishments with WSPA's partners in 2009:

• Worldwide - advised The World Organisation for Animal Health on humane dog population control, to help prevent culls.
• Canada - worked with indigenous communities on stray dog population issues; sterilized 459 animals; educated community members on responsible pet ownership.
• Costa Rica - The National Animal Health Service agreed to create a formal program on companion animals' breeding and trade.
• Kathmandu, Nepal - zero rabies cases and zero cruel stray dog culls.

Project area #3: Wildlife

Worldwide - every day WSPA works to stop the use of wild animals for food, fur, or entertainment.

Some key accomplishments with WSPA's partners in 2009:

• United States - stopped Origins skin care from offering inhumane "Swim with the dolphins" program as a sweepstakes prize.
• Vietnam - pioneered a monitoring system to help phase out cruel practice of bear bile farming for traditional Asian medicine.
• Pakistan - continue to stop about 80% of planned bear baiting events
• Congo - first ever release of rehabilitated bonobos back into their natural habitat

Project area #4: Farm Animals

Worldwide  - each year, WSPA's campaigns address the inhumane treatment of over 60 million farm animals.

Some key accomplishments with our partners in 2009:

• United States - in Hawaii stopped the use of "Island Produced" label on pork from live pigs imported from mainland U.S.
• United States - Eat Humane public awareness campaign has educated millions of Americans on purchasing more animal-friendly foods.
• Brazil - hundreds of people in agriculture industry trained in humane animal handling - potential to improve conditions for millions of farm animals.

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