This week we want to tell you all about our Moroccan campaign. Our local partner, RAPAD-Maroc is working to address the huge education and animal care problem that has come about surrounding COVID-19.
Among the torrent of false information viewable on TV in Morocco is the claim that you can catch COVID-19 from your cats and dogs and farm animals. This has led, as we shared with you previously, to the mass dumping of farm and domestic animals. The sudden appearance of hungry and increasingly aggressive animals everywhere is a second public health crisis all of its own.
The current situation in Morocco is a military enforced stay-at-home order but RAPAD-Maroc is one of very few groups given government permission to operate on the streets- they’re working basically alone, and what they’ve done is to create the “Street Shepherds” campaign.
The Street Shepherds are going out every day, caring for the animals as best they can, to prevent them from dying in droves on the streets, and from becoming too aggressive as they begin to starve.
They are working with media and the government,
As well as teaching directly on the streets, to inform communities exactly how COVID-19 is spread, and how the communities can help.
We need help giving them the resources to save these thousands of animals who had homes until very recently, and to spread the word all throughout Morocco to stop even more animals from getting dumped in droves!
Alongside our COVID-19 fundraiser (https://darwinanimal.bsd.net/
You can now also donate directly to our Morocco campaign. https://darwinanimal.bsd.net/
These animals really do need you now, more than ever!
-Tod and Piggy, Presidents, Darwin Animal Doctors
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