One Earth One Health
About Us
Welcome to PAW Mombasa. A community-based organization dedicated in creating community responsibility towards animal welfare, climate justice and environmental sustainability. PAW is based on the One Health approach in communities: Healthy People, Healthy Animals and Healthy Environment.
According to WHO The One Health approach is important in:
- Preventing outbreaks of zoonotic disease in animals and people.
- Improving food safety and security.
- Protecting global health security.
- Protecting biodiversity and conservation.
- Reducing antimicrobial-resistant infections and improve human and animal health.
Ways You Can Help
To foster our neonates or kittens for a short period of time. Volunteer for events. Volunteer services
Donate to support our programs and events or collaborate with us in projects
Healthy Animals
We are here to educate and empower youth on animal welfare work; advise them on the animal related field careers available in our country.
We ONLY rescue sick, injured/accident, special needs street cats. Once rehabilitated some of our rescues get adopted in good homes. Some that require lifetime medical care remain with us.
We hold free annual rabies vaccination camps and are thrilled to have many youth involved in promoting rabies vaccinations and most importantly learning more on the deadly zoonotic disease. We have vaccinated over 1100 cats and dogs since 2019
We have fundraised and collaborate with local vets and community to do free trap neuter and releasing of stray cats and dogs in the resident alleys, garbage areas and city centre. We have neutered over 600 cats and dogs since inception of the program in 2021
We create awareness in the community through workshops and radio programs about existing animal health, cruelty laws and welfare sensitization. We educate the community to take responsibility and care for the stray animals around them and educate them on communicable diseases of zoonotic nature between pets, livestock and humans.
As part of our climate justice efforts, we also plant mangroves with youth and women groups on two sites at the Mombasa Coast, in order to restore the destroyed and degraded mangrove forests. Mangroves are an important part of the global carbon cycle. Destroyed mangroves releases the carbon stored in their biomass into the atmosphere contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbating climate change.
We have a youth rangers program called One Health where youth learn about environment conservation, climate justice, plastic pollution and animal welfare. This program is a collaboration with Darwin Animal Doctors New Zealand.
We have an urban garden project aim to transform our concrete jungle towns into green towns while creating climate change awareness by improving and purifying the air polluted residential alleys. At the same time offer economically impacted homes a way to grow some of their foods right off their balconies, verandahs, back yards and walls.
We also do beach clean-up exercises as part of marine conservation and habitat restoration activities. Thousands of marine animals worldwide have been affected by plastic pollution, including sea turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals. Therefore, we do beach clean ups with youth and emphasize that beach clean-ups are vital to mitigate the problem caused by ocean debris and the danger that plastic pollution poses to marine life.
Healthy Environment
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