More Sterilizations, Less Abandonment

AKI's Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program - 2025

The Animal-Kind International (AKI’s) Africa & LAC Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program, AKI’s 8th annual grant program, is intended to assist effective Africa & LAC-based organizations, beyond the Partner Organizations, implement high impact activities aimed at improving the lives of domestic animals.

Eligible Projects
They fund projects that benefit cats, dogs, donkeys, and/or horses (secondarily, they will consider projects that benefit cattle, goats, sheep, chickens, and pigs).

Title: More Sterilizations, Less Abandonment

Awardee rescues, rehabilitates, and rehomes abandoned and/or abused kittens in Santiago. The grant project, More Sterilizations, Less Abandonment, will reduce animal abandonment and suffering through free cat sterilization in vulnerable communities of Santiago. Awardee will provide 100 free sterilizations and rabies and core vaccines in communities with a high abandonment rate. Worldwide, as compared to puppies, dogs, and kittens, adult cats are the least likely to be spayed or neutered and to be abandoned (often when pregnant or after a litter when the kittens are kept, and the mama cat is thrown out), and they are the least likely to be adopted.