Animal Aid Egypt - AAE

Animal Aid Egypt (AAE) animal welfare organization registered #2401 year 2009 in Alexandria, affiliated with AAA Animal Aid Abroad Inc. Australia with the purpose of improving the living conditions and treatment of animals

Mission/Goals

1. AAE ‘s mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and give better lives to the stray, working and abandoned animals in Alexandria, Egypt.
2. AAE will help any animal in distress or suffering and will work towards educating the people and government on humane treatment of all animals.
3. AAE’s scope of animals to help includes cats and dogs, working animals [eg. donkeys, mules, horses and camels], wild life animals and farm animals [eg. cows, sheep, goats and pigs], birds and native animals.
4. AAE is a registered non profit charity established in December 2008 in partnership with Animal Aid Abroad Inc. in Australia.
5. AAE believes that compassion, kindness and empathy should not be rationed to only humans. An animal feels pain, bewilderment and loss like you and me. It gives love, loyalty and companionship with unselfish intensity.

History

Janet Thomas, The AAA Founder

Animal Aid Abroad Inc. was started in August 2007 in Perth, Australia with the purpose to improve the conditions and treatment of animals in Alexandria, Egypt.

AAA has expanded its operations to help other animals in developing countries but its main purpose is still to improve the conditions and treatment of animals in Egypt.

AAA is a registered non-profit charity that was set up by Janet Thomas after working and living in Alexandria, Egypt. She witnessed on a daily basis the appalling and cruel treatment of the animals on the streets and in the local zoo. She became aware that no animal welfare facility was set up in Alexandria [Egypt’s second largest city with a population of over four million people] so she returned to Australia to raise the money to start a facility that will help the animals in Alexandria.

Norhan Sherif, The AAE manager

AAA began its work helping in the local zoo in Alexandria with support from a small group of local volunteers and Ahmed El Sherbiny from Animal Friends in Cairo to improve the conditions of the animals there. The first win for AAA and our Alexandria group was freeing a lone Asian elephant from her day chain so she could wander her enclosure freely. We also built her a shade canopy and reinforced her night den so she could not escape. We then moved onto improving the chimpanzee enclosure by working with the keepers to improve the diet of the two resident chimps, providing enrichment in their outside enclosure and campaigning to have their night dens get wooden floors.

AAA continues to work with the Egypt Zoo management to improve the conditions of the animals at this zoo. AAA is about to embark on the next stage of it’s involvement in Egypt by setting up a 24 hr clinic in the city of Alexandria in partnership with newly formed group, Animal Aid Egypt.

Our Purpose/activities are

provide medical treatment and rescue of injured, suffering and distressed animals.Spay and neuter cats and dogs including stray, street and owned animals. Begin a spay and neuter program for dogs and cats in Alexandria. The Animal Birth Control [ABC] program will include vaccinating animals against transmittable diseases such as rabies.Provide a mobile clinic service for rescues and medical treatment of equines, camels and farm animals. The mobile clinic will also serve as a mobile educational facility to help and teach equine owners, farm animal owners and people who have pets how to care and treat there animals humanely.Provide on-going awareness campaigns and workshops for pet owners and people who have animals .Promote re-homing and adoptions of rescued cats and dogs- locally and internationally.Provide disaster relief in areas around Alexandria and in Egypt generally in case of a natural disaster where animals are involved.Promote and campaign against the exploitation and hunting of native wildlife by working with government groups, other animal wildlife groups and the public