Gran Kaz Sponsors New Animal Welfare Centre

Gran Kaz has donated SCR 150, 000 rupees towards the construction of a brand New Animal Welfare Centre in Providence.

The Centre which is phase one of a project Spearheaded by the SSPCA, comprises both boarding kennels as well as kennels for stray and unwanted animals. The aim is to encourage people to bring unwanted animals to the centre rather than abandon them on the streets.

At Gran Kaz, we admire the work that the SSPCA has done so far and continues to do every day to take animals off the streets and place them in a safe and caring environment.

This not only benefits the animals, but the communities at large.

We realise that as a non-profit organisation, they need all the assistance they can possibly get and so we pledged this sum to them to help them with the construction of this much needed Centre. Their previous location wasn’t sufficient to continue boarding unwanted animals, numbers of which are constantly rising.

Speaking at the Grand Opening of the Animal Welfare Centre, on Tuesday 6th February SSPCA Chairperson Judith Strashoon said “It’s been a very long, hard journey I will not deny that, but it’s also been exciting. It’s the first step to going forward for us now, I am hoping that this is only the beginning and from here we are just going to take off.  ”

At the ceremony, Ms. Strashoon also unveiled a plaque of recognition bearing the names of all those who had supported the construction of the Animal Welfare Centre.

The next phase of this project will be the construction and equipping of a dedicated Animal Hospital, where animals will be kept and cared for whilst recovering from injuries or surgery.

We are very excited about this part of the project and will surely be helping out with this as well. Seychelles is in desperate need of such an establishment, not only to care for strays that have been injured or mistreated animals; but also for those beloved pets whose owners sometimes find themselves stranded in situations where their animals need specialist care, which isn’t always readily available.