Annual_Report

Annual Report
Year 2008

Ref. N^o. U-13/259/2001
Date: December 31, 2008

Introduction

The humane activity started in the year 2001 as a pioneer by legally establishing a registered animal welfare charity, to educate people to be kind for the animals and to vaccinate and spay neuter homeless dogs to reduce the problem of stray animals and also save animals in a sever situation has managed to successfully accomplish its tasks by creating awareness for millions of people using all available opportunities and managed to save a number of animals in a critical condition.

This effort has also contributed for the inclusion of advancement of animal welfare activity in the proclamation.

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Aims and Objectives

	To promote the welfare of homeless animals particularly homeless dogs, cats and work animals
	To protect the highly endangered Ethiopian Wolf from disease and hybridization occurred due to homeless dog
	To solve the social and health problems occurred on the community and other animals due to homeless dogs
	To undertake animal welfare and other required activities in those parts of the country where the problems and suffering of homeless animals are worst and involve the communities themselves in the research for the solutions
	To create a plat form where, all relevant social actors and stakeholders could be able to discuss the problems of homeless animals and stray dogs
	To promote advocacy work at local, zonal, regional and national levels regarding the protection and welfare of homeless animals
	To research the problems of animals and try to solve them in as much as possible in collaboration with all stakeholders and social actors
	To gather, collate and dispense of information about the problems of homeless animals
	To establish a mobile animal health post

Main activities of the year

Awareness creation

Renewal of the educational prints on HAPS car which shows all the activities of the society and used to educate the community by confidently moving around for the past consecutive years about animal welfare, by using the guarantee offered by the printing house.

Mass awareness creation activities for millions of people has also been done very widely in the way that many people can be reached, using different way of disseminating information such as:

	Distribution of leaflets and Stickers
	Different government and private Medias, such as TV, Ethiopian Heralds, Negadras private newspaper and Ethiopian news agency and private radio direct transmission from the studio and the opportunity was used to convey information about the importance of vaccination and spay neuter of dogs
	Telephone calls for counseling purpose
	Using printed pictures and informative messages on HAPS car while driving on the road and at parking places
	Using megaphone and tape recorder fixed on HAPS car in different areas where people gather in large number and from different parts of the City such as: Bus stations, Exhibition centers and Market places schools at the entrance and exit time of students.

And therefore the demand of getting advice and different services for both homeless and owned dogs is increasing from time to time as HAPS is the only known organization publicizing in the city and also all over the country through Medias about its activity for the animals and giving advises for dog owners.

Adoption:

The pictures of the dogs are advertised for adoption by the society in different super markets, and in public areas in which it is thought to be visible by people that wants to adopt as some of them are no more wanted by their family and the family decided to avoid them either by killing or abandoning them, and the others are homeless in critical conditions due to the change in residential areas by the owner and left behind.

In this way a total of 107 dogs are saved and given treatment and re homed to a new family in the past fiscal year.

Emergency medical care:

Among the dogs that has been saved the one found with a wire rapped up on the neck and got infected as it goes deeper to the skin and finally re homed to a lovely family after being given continuous medical treatment and

Before

After

The six puppies less than a week of age that are saved by HAPS after the mother is eaten by a hyena and raised in HAPS shelter by bottle feeding and finally adopted to a family can be mentioned as an example

Administrative activity

Besides the piles of day to day administrative activities which ensures the continuation of the society, in the first quarter of the year, the society audited the previous year financial activity by Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and Authorized Auditors (Ethiopia) and summarized the previous year activity report to be approved by the general assembly after it has been presented by the audit firm itself to the general assembly meeting which was open to both government and private medias and which was hold in the assembly hall of Ministry of Agriculture who is the sector government authority of the society and directly concerned about animals and related issues, by creating awareness through the participating government and private medias which finally gave a wider coverage.

This activity apart from reaching the government and the donor community in the form of report it has created awareness about the activities of the society as it was broadcasted in Radio, TV and different News papers all over the Country to millions of people.

Conditions has been prepared to organize fund raising event for the construction of self sustained dogs and cats shelter, clinic with drug store and education center that can give low cost vet service for the community , by convincing organizations that can support, through trade shows and bazaars and music concert.

A repeated meeting that constitute the management, the Board and experienced members and other concerned supporters has also been held to suggest ideas and discuss about the future of the society’s activity and on how this people contribute their profession and experience to support the management by sharing tasks.

Visit by international organizations:

In the beginning of the year 2008, the activities that can improve the overall situation of the society has been made and accordingly the society’s activity was visited by one of the well known animal welfare organization, Best Friends Animal Society USA representative, in order to establish a ground on how this organization can help its activities.

Based on this a meeting was arranged with the directly related institutions such as Addis Ababa Urban Agriculture Department and was carried on in good manner and with supportive ideas raised among each other and specifically Best Friends promised to donate for the completion of the already started project in the Bole area and at the same time HAPS arranged a visit for Best Friends representative to the government clinics in Addis Ababa for the Best friends Animal society to think of upgrading those clinics for the community.

Based on this precondition to extend the project has been made by discussing with the concerned government bodies.

For more information: http://network.bestfriends.org/Blogs/Detail.aspX?b=1651

HAPS also arranged a meeting for the Best Friends representative with Private Veterinarians Association working in Addis Ababa to discuss on how they can work in collaboration with HAPS in order to reduce the problem.

For more information: http://network.bestfriends.org/international/news/22660.html

At the last quarter of the year RSPCA UK International Aid Officer Coralie Farren has also made a visit to our society in order to supervise the activities of the project that RSPCA was donated for and to discuss on how we can work together for the future.

Experience sharing:

According to the idea generated from members to organize a discussion forum, which participate all the stakeholders of the society in order to discuss and reach a mutual understanding on how the problem of homeless animals and related issues can be solved permanently.

The society has also managed to participate in the OIE 2^nd global conference held in Cairo, Egypt under the sponsor ship of World Society for the Protection of Animals /WSPA/ which is an important opportunity to get an exposure with the international animal welfare community.

Improvement in animal welfare:

The awareness of people regarding animal welfare is enhanced and the demand for vaccination and spay neuter raised and made them participate in the activity of the society.

It is being managed to make people to participate in the activities of the society voluntarily and through apprenticeship student from different colleges and Universities of different field and level of studies.

The effort made by the society in the awareness creation aspect using all opportunities has made a great deal of contribution for the inclusion of advancement of animal welfare activity in the proclamation.

Challenges:

The pressure imposed on the society due to the objection of dog shooting and poisoning in the Bale Mountains the origin of the society.

For further information please browse: http://www.haps-eth.org.et/History.htm

Abandoning from the rented animal shelter and clinic that costs a relatively cheaper price and which was used to educate and practically show the community and the government about the importance of spay neuter and vaccination of dogs.

Special thanks!

Our special thanks goes to ANIMAL PEOPLE USA the originator of HAPS, main and regular supporter in all aspects from the beginning for every life saved in every single day and for the effort to inform millions of people to be kind for the animals without being defeated for all the difficulties faced throughout.

- By providing material and technical and administrative advice from the beginning year 2000 whenever necessary.

- Financially, in addition to the usual financial support for the society’s activity, ANIMAL PEOPLE USA is paying salary for two people who run the day to day activities of the society since the year 2004.

We also would like to forward our grateful thanks for World Society for the Protection of Animals /WSPA/ Africa office, for supporting our society to gain different experiences and widen its communication net work by participating in different international gatherings

Our thanks also goes to our usual regular individual supporter who supported in the fiscal year Katrina Morrison and Dave Price, Margaret Gebhard, Georgia Rowe, Marilyn Weaver, Janet Forman, Fay Forman, Anneli Berggren, Bonnie Douglas, Anna Little, Dr. Anteneh Roba

In this opportunity, we also would like to thank those organizations and individuals and Medias who supported our activities in different ways in the past years.

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Signed

Efrem Legese
President