Kuwait's Stray Animals NEED HELP!!!

Can you help PAWS Kuwait raise $15,000 to bring a vet with medical supplies for two months to carry out spaying and neutering for the recent rescues at our shelter, and to conduct a TNR program for strays?
Protecting Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) Kuwait operates a no-kill, no-cage shelter in the desert. We are three women (Kuwaiti, Austrian, and Kuwaiti-American) who run and finance this humanitarian mission, aided by a very small team of dedicated volunteers and paid workers.  We receive no help from the government and also get no other official funding. We depend entirely on our own fundraising activities, donations, and for the most part, our own income and savings.
With more than 400 rescued dogs and cats and four Arabian baboons in our care, purchasing food and supplies is an expensive and endless task. We spend many thousands of dollars for the shelter each month, with our monthly food bill along totaling more than $6,000. Other expenses include:
• Medicine & veterinary treatment
• Rent for the desert farm where our shelter is located (We are trying to get our own land.)
• Water & electricity and maintenance (Our buildings are very old.)
• Workers’ salaries & their clothing, room & board
• Cleaning supplies, etc.
You get the picture. But if you see all the wonderful animals that are so happy, friendly, and loving, despite the ordeals and abuse they have endured, then you will understand why we refuse to give up!
Step by step, we are making things better for animals in Kuwait, through rescuing, veterinary care and plenty of TLC for the animals, and an active and wide-ranging animal welfare awareness program for the humans. Through tremendous effort and sacrifice, we are making progress. We are convinced that things can and will get better. (You can learn more about our work from our Instagram @paws_kuwait)
In order for us to continue our humanitarian mission, we urgently need your help. This year we have rescued an unprecedented number of stray, injured, abused, and abandoned animals from the desert and city streets of Kuwait. They have all been given the necessary medical care, but now they must also be spayed or neutered. (For the time being they are in segregated quarters, according to gender.)
As you’re probably aware, besides obviously avoiding unwanted pregnancies, spaying and neutering offers lifelong benefits to dogs and cats. These include:
• A longer, healthier life for female dogs and cats, since spaying helps prevent uterine infections and breast cancer, which is fatal in about 50 % of dogs and 90% of cats. Spaying an animal before her first heat offers the best protection from these diseases.
• Prevention of testicular cancer in male dogs and cats, if done before six months of age.
• A more comfortable, safer life for the animals as they don’t tend to try and escape or stray in order to find a mate. Neutered males tend to be less aggressive and have less of a tendency to fight with other males.
• Advantages for the owner, as female cats don’t go into heat and yowl and urinate frequently and male dogs and cats don’t mark their territory by spraying urine.
• It ensures that when an animal is adopted it can never be used for breeding, which often results in large numbers of unwanted animals, or animals that are later abandoned.
Spaying and neutering a large number of animals, however, is a major expense that we cannot afford at this time. We have calculated our costs and if we can raise $15,000 we can hire a vet to work exclusively for us for two months. This will cut our costs by more than 50%. It will also allow us to carry out much-needed TNR (trap, neuter, release) programs. We have conducted studies and identified some industrial areas and Amghara scrap-yard in the desert, where large numbers of stray animals are living in miserable conditions and where TNR is a priority.
Stray animals not only suffer from sickness, starvation, and injuries but tragically, many also end up as the victims of poisoning, shooting, abuse, and recently have even been burned alive.
You can help alleviate a great deal of suffering by donating to this campaign. We ask you to please help this small team of exhausted yet dedicated humans, the helpless and deserving animals that are loved and well cared-for at the PAWS Kuwait shelter, and those that are still struggling to survive on their own. Please donate today!
Thank you for caring and making a difference!