April's Featured Charity

April's Featured Charity 31 March 2015

Our charity of the month for April is FOUR PAWS, an international animal welfare charity.

FOUR PAWS mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals under human control.

- Creating sustainable solutions for animals in need

- Touching hearts, changing consumer behaviour

- Driving legal changes and building powerful partnerships

FOUR PAWS aim to realise these goals through our projects and campaigns, which provide short-term and long-term solutions for animals in need.

Their campaigns - Their campaigns are aimed at creating better living conditions for farm animals, wild animals, laboratory animals and companion animals.

Their vision - is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding.

As more and more decisions about animal welfare are made at a European level, we focus our efforts increasingly on European policy makers in order to influence their beliefs, in favour of animals.

Their projects - The goal of their national and international projects is to provide direct assistance to animals in need. Their team rescues animals and rehomes them in our sanctuaries, where they can recover them in a natural environment. Simultaneously, they aim to improve the political climate for animal welfare and prevent animal suffering in the future.

Bears - Dancing bears, circus bears and other bears in private captivity suffer greatly. FOUR PAWS has four sanctuaries, in which several bears have found a home for life. They founded and run sanctuaries in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and Ukraine.

Lions - The appalling conditions which some captive big cats are forced to endure led to the opening of LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa. Rescued big cats are given a safe and natural environment where they can spend the rest of their lives.

Stray Animal Care - Stray dogs and cats roam the streets of many countries around the world, unloved and uncared for. FOUR PAWS works to successfully prevent disease and the uncontrolled reproduction by treating and neutering stray animals.

FOUR PAWS receives no government funding. It is only with the help of their kind donors and supporters that they can help animals so please donate your used mobiles and empty cartridges to them and give animals the chance they need.

For more information on this great charity please visit www.four-paws.org.uk