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# LAMBERTS & ELANDS

# ANIMAL PROTECTION SERVICES

Helping the paw

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## OUR MISSION

Our mission is to provide a better life for animals in need by ensuring they have a safe, healthy and loving home. We strive to support and empower pet owners, educate the community on responsible pet ownership and provide high-quality care and shelter to animals in need. Our ultimate goal is to create a world where every animal we encounter has a loving family that cherishes and treats them with the care and respect they deserve

## OUR GOALS:

Our goals are:

- To continue sterilising as many animals as possible to curb the birth of thousands of unwanted litters and minimize roaming/fighting among street dogs.
- To continue to educate township pet owners so that animals living in these conditions are treated with more love, care and dignity. Children are natural observers. When a parent or guardian prioritises the health and well-being of a family pet, they are delivering a silent but profound lesson in stewardship.
- To continue to integrate educational workshops into schools. Teaching animal welfare fosters "pro-social" behavior. Children who practice kindness toward animals are statistically more likely to show empathy toward their peers, reducing instances of bullying and cultivating a more inclusive, kind society.
- To continue intervening medically to address diseases and illnesses. **One Health**: increasing knowledge of the importance of vaccinations (like Rabies and Parvo) protects the pet and prevents zoonotic diseases from spreading to humans.

Our goal is to always Help the Paw!

"Saving one animal won't change the world, but surely for that one animal, the world will change forever."

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#### LEAPS - Helping the paw

LEAPS is a registered non profit animal welfare organisation tending to the needs of animals in the townships of Elands Bay and Lamberts Bay, 220 km up the West Coast from Cape Town, South Africa. 

**NPO Number:** 069-863  **PBO Number:** 930031322

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