Individual items needed:

A generator (as our shelter is in a poor suburb, the electricity often gets cut off and we are often without electricity and consequently water, this is a huge problem when this happens)

An ambulance, critical for us with the amount of animals in our care. Because we are missing many essential items in our basic medical equipment, we often have to rent a car to take our cats and dogs to other outside vet clinics, where they are better equipped to handle those cases. We also sometimes have to rent a car when we have a call to pick up an injured or abused animal.

Other medical equipment needed:

• Operating table
• X ray machine
• Operating light
• locked cupboard to hold our medicines
• Surgical trolley

General Equipment needed at the shelter:

• Dryer for laundry
• Large size fridges and freezers
• Fans and heaters
• Industrial kitchen machine (we cook all of the food for the animals, since it is far cheaper than buying ready-made food in the Egyptian market. We supplement with dry food when we are able)
• An additional industrial cooker and gas bottles
• air purifying machines

Foodstuffs:

• Sacks of rice
• supplies of dry food (cats and dogs)
• supplies of tinned mackarel (for cats)
• Baby foods for sick animals

Pet grooming and comfort items:

• Blankets/towels and soft bathroom mats
• brushes/combs and clippers
• tick and flea drops
• fur clipper
• collar and leashes (cats and dogs)
• All kinds of beds and pet carriers

Cleaning items:

• All kinds of cleaning tools
• All kinds of detergents and disinfectants
• Paper towel rolls and strong plastic bags

Workers items:

• We try as far as we can to offer our workers protective clothing
• plastic clogs and wellington boots (all sizes)
• overalls and t-shirts/shorts/caps
• Single mattresses (some staff members sleep at the shelter each night)

Manpower:

At the moment our shelter is managed by founding members but to run efficiently we also need to hire following staff:

• Manager for Shelter
• At least another 2 additional vets (to cover shifts and days off and to care for our 250 dogs and 168 cats)
• At least another 3 or 4 workers

Can you help cover the costs of hiring these additional staff?

And for those reading this living in Egypt we badly need permanent homes for our animals, foster homes, and volunteers.

Projects:

1. Our aim is to be self sufficient so we won’t have to frequently ask our supporters to help us in rough times. We would ideally like to have an outpatient clinic in a downtown area where we could use this income to cover a large proportion of our costs at the shelter, we would also combine this with an animal advocacy awareness centre to teach children kindness to animals. To gain extra income we would also (at this same facility) offer boarding for cats and have a shop to sell things that people need for their pets. We have already started a project making pet beds and distributing them for sale. This will require an initial capital of LE50,000 ($10,000).
2. We also plan once we have hired additional vets to offer a vet home visit service whereby we can send our vets to give vaccinations at homes/check ups for a small fee in addition to the costs of vaccinations.
3. Currently we are studying the possibility of distributing fresh food (especially produced for cats and dogs)to our contacts and adding a small margin of profit on the manufacturers wholesale price to us....