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ESMA shelter needs your urgent help!

453 of our animals need to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Please, ESMA is short of money and can’t afford to buy any vaccines, not mentioning that we owe our supplier already money from the vaccines we bought last month for the animals that were due to be vaccinated in the month of May.

Please help ESMA animals. Thank you.

Sadly our funding strolls in but runs out of the shelter doors, we are desperate for funding..and help is always needed.. 1200 animals rely on you. Donating to ESMA could not be simpler. ESMA has a dedicated account here in Cairo, if you would like to donate direct into our bank or via the internet then please PRIVATE MESSAGE us for the account details.

You can donate cash via the phone cash system on Vodaphone 01011779988 mobinil 01221664555.

Overseas supporters can donate via paypal usingwww.animaldiplomacy.org

Thank you for thinking of us.

Did you know if you send us 30le we can buy a chicken for our animals. We need 60 chickens each day. Living in Egypt means you can donate to buy a chicken using mobile cash Vodaphone 01011779988 or mobinil 01221664556 Cash not credit. 30le will make a difference.

Summer is being very tough on our Persian cats and Griffon dogs they cannot take the heat even though we have fans working 24/7 but still their long thick hair makes it worse for them. Would any body be ready to foster some of them till end of August or even part of the summer to help ease the situation on them, some of them maybe due to travel earlier but we need to get some help with short term fosters for those poor babies please. If you can please contact Mona Khalil per email [email protected].

Thanks to all our wonderful friends our eight handicapped animals have a new life, a new life they could not have had without your generous donations towards their travel costs. Thank you each and everyone who donated towards this worthy cause!

ESMA needs your help: please consider becoming a regular supporter, at any level.

Dear ESMA community, we need your help. We are again facing and unknown level of social unrest along with economic effects here in Egypt, based on recent political events. We are blessed to have the number of supporters and followers that we do, but are forced to come to you to ask for your financial support, in a time when economic pressures within Egypt have caused us to lose one third of our local regular monthly contributions, and the price increases on basic commodities have caused our expenses to skyrocket.  We are entirely supported from individual donors within Egypt and from abroad. Yet we have to continue to meet our basic operating expenses every month, whatever the rate the donations come in.

We are facing a financial crisis for several reasons: because we have continued to see a drop in our local contributions, as Egyptians are finding they have to cut unnecessary expenses including donating to local charities. At the same time, the price on meat, chicken, rice and bread, as well as dry pet food, has continued to rise.  Working in Egypt, animal welfare falls ever lower on the list of concerns when the social, economic and political climate continues to worsen for people, but we have to continue in spite of these obstacles.  We are now facing unpaid bills to our food vendors, the lifeline for our animals, and the prospect of a long and hot summer.

As those of you who follow this page already know, we have had to close our door to any new admissions excepting only the most urgent ones. We struggle to simply meet the immense ongoing monthly costs to care for almost 900 souls in our cat and dog shelters. We are coming to you now to ask you to please consider becoming a regular supporter, at any level.

With over 20,000 followers on Facebook, we hope that some of you will choose to help us. How can you do that?

1. If you have never contributed, we hope you will consider joining the regular sponsors we now have and signing up to make a regular monthly donation, any amount is appreciated.

2. If you are already making a monthly contribution, consider raising it by even a few dollars.

3.  If you cannot contribute but believe in what we are doing, there may be someone you know who can, so pass the word along to your friends who love animals.

We estimate that it costs 300 Egyptian Pounds to provide care to a cat or dog every month, or approximately 40 USD. But we have monthly donors who give anywhere from ten to one hundred dollars a month, and any amount is welcome. All of the money received by ESMA in Egypt or through Animal Diplomacy goes directly for food, medical treatment and shelter of the animals.

If you live in Egypt:

  If you are local, please contact us to arrange for your donation to be picked up at your home or work. Contact Mona Khalil at 01222188823 or

[email protected] for arrangements.

If you live outside Egypt in Europe, the US, or Australia:

ESMA is a project of Animal Diplomacy, a registered US charitable organization in the US that supports our work. Make a recurring or one-time donation from almost anywhere in the world through

Animal Diplomacy.

If you live in the UK:

Please contact Julie Dodd of ESMA UK at

[email protected] for details of our UK account.

If you have any questions about making a donation, please contact ESMA treasurer Debbie Smith at [email protected]

ESMA wants to send a big thank you to 1-800-Petmeds for making a donation of a box of animal care supplies for the animals in our shelters. These donation box will be delivered to Cairo by one of our ESMA supporters, who will be coming to Cairo soon to volunteer at the shelter. We appreciate both the efforts of our American supporter to coordinate this donation, as well as the fact that 1-800-PetMeds is a company willing to support an organization outside the US through their shelter donations program.   Acts of generosity like this are what enable us to continue our work to improve the lives of Egypt’s animals.