Mama Paka Cat Cafe Zanzibar

Help us open Tanzania’s first ever cat café and save more cats!

In two years, Mama Paka Zanzibar has helped more than 752 cats through our kitten nursery, community cat outreach programme and our mass spay/neuter campaigns (TNR). We’re also home to 30 resident cats who started life with us as specialist care kittens.

Now we need your help to launch the next phase: a cat café! The café will be a not-for-profit social enterprise, meaning every penny, cent and shilling will be used to fund our cat programmes. Enjoy tea, coffee and home-baked cakes in an environment built specially for Zanzibar’s beautiful street cats, and your money will help us to help more cats!

The cafe will be downstairs at our existing location in Stone Town. We need just $5,000 to turn the space into an adventure playground for cats and a cat paradise for visitors. The cats are already busy training for their new lives as celebrities.

Our Programmes:

1. Critical Care Kitten Nursery

We are home to Tanzania’s first ever dedicated intensive care kitten nursery. We care for neonatal and critical care cats and kittens in our specialist nursery. The café will help to provide funds for the kitten nursery, meaning we can save even more of Zanzibar’s kittens and adult cats who need specialist nursing care.

2. Community Cat Management

We support communities to expand the management of Zanzibar’s cat colonies, helping cats to live their best lives on the streets. We currently coordinate mass Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) campaigns and support cat caretakers to monitor the health of the cats they care for, providing them with the supplies they need. Through our campaigns we've sterilised more than 500 cats. We also plan to set up street shelters and a food bank.

3. Education and Awareness

The café will provide a safe space for children and communities to interact with cats and to learn about animal welfare. Found a kitten and don’t know what to do? We will provide resources on how to keep cats happy and healthy in their community colonies, and advice on when to intervene.

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