The Give Some Life Foundation is dedicated to the protection and welfare of all animals (Both domestic and wild). We will eagerly work with and assist any person, any group and any organization who has the same objective. This includes working with the Mexican Government, at any level.
Our special projects include:
Baja Vet Mobile
We have a city bus that has been donated and we are working to outfit it as the Baja VetMobile that will visit various impoverished neighborhoods. We are currently raising funds to being operating the Baja VetMobile to perform large volumes of spay/neuter surgeries to help to stop the huge numbers of unwanted litters that have created thousands of abandoned animals with no opportunity for a decent life.
More Information about the Baja VetMobile Project
Rosarito Feral Cat Project
Due to the alarming number of animals being poisoned and killed in Rosarito and throughout Baja, Dr. Joaquin Villasenor MVZ of Rosarito veterinary is working with the GSL Foundation, the Rosarito Pound and the Rosarito Shores volunteers and has established The GSL Rosarito Feral Cat Project.
The Project's goal is to humanely trap, spay and neuter stray cats in Rosarito. Dr. Joaquin is making sure all pets are fixed at his low cost clinic that are adopted from the Rosarito shelter. The GSL Foundation has matched the Rosarito Shores order of 12 traps, and there are currently 24 traps in Rosarito working on this project. Joaquin and the Rosarito Pound are working together to encourage humane treatment of all trapped animals. Once the Rosarito Shores feral cat population is under control, the traps will be given to the city pound to distribute to other Rosarito campos and residents.
More information about the Rosarito Feral Cat Project
Pet Food Project
The GSL Foundation provides pet food to all the 6 city pounds through the pet food distribution project. Already over 34,000 pounds of pet food has been distributed to shelters in Tijuana, Ensenada, San Felipe, Tecate, Mexicali, and Rosarito.
More information about the Pet Food Project
Rosarito Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic
One of our goals is to establish a number of “Low Cost Clinics” across the Baja that are subsidized by the Give Some Life Foundation – to establish a set price and offer a coupon or voucher to people so they can get their pets fixed and the Vets can recover their expenses for spay/neuter. Currently we have three low cost spay/neuter clinics established in Mexicali, Tijuana and Rosarito. The Rosarito clinic has also just received the first microchip scanner.
More information about the Rosarito Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic.
San Felipe Animal Rescue
The following is a letter from San Felipe Animal Rescue
January 28, 2008
Dear Craig,
This past Saturday and Sunday, San Felipe Animal Rescue held a spay/neuter campaign in an extremely poor part of town, called Los Gavilanes. As is true with many areas in San Felipe, this section is literally overrun with dogs, cats, puppies and kittens.
Our vets, Dr. Rebeca and Dr. Joachin, who came from Tijuana, worked so hard, surgically altering ninety nine dogs and cats. Our volunteers and animal wranglers were all local folks with huge hearts and the experience of all of us who love dogs and cats as much as we do was overwhelmingly unifying. Another campaign will be announced for February.
Los Gavilanes is just one of the small sections of San Felipe that really need us to come directly to them. Many residents don't have cars and it's far easier for them if SFAR's services are in walking distance of their homes.
We all worked in a vacant house, and although it did have three rooms and a roof and a floor, the bathroom did not work, and water and electricity needed to be hooked up from next door and down the block. A port-a-potty was delivered and it kind of felt like a M.A.S.H. unit.
The plan is to work in Los Gavilanes for the next several months until we totally get the animal overpopulation problem under control. Then on to Los Arcos, a similar and equally impoverished area. SFAR is a NO KILL facility, so spaying and neutering is our only option. We only euthanize in extreme situations.
Many rescue groups that work south of the border in communities like San Felipe all agree on one thing...in order to get ahead of the replacement rate and reach zero population growth, you need to spay and/or neuter 75% of the animal population. Statistics show that only 8% of the dogs and cats in Mexican towns like ours are owned, and 92% are street animals. We are quickly reaching 4000 surgeries done in San Felipe since 2003, but with many many more to do.
Please become a monthly donor and join ZAPP, the Zero Additional Pup-ulation Project. Any monthly amount of $5 or more will help the situation. Our current spay/neuter cost is $20 per dog or cat, male or female. Please Click on this ZAPP logo and join our mission. We'll send you an awesome T-shirt just for joining.
Remember, we get NO help from stateside foundations and grant givers, because we are outside the contiguous United States--- and the Mexican government is relatively apathetic.
Here in Mexico, as in other poor communities around the world, the bulk of our dogs and cats hang out and live on the streets in impoverished neighborhoods. We need a SPAY SHUTTLE. A mobile home that we can convert into a hospital, so we can drive into these neighborhoods and do all the surgeries necessary to get each neighborhood educated, vaccinated and under population control. If you have an appropriate vehicle or know someone who does, please call us at 707-320-4969 from the states, 686-577-2708 in San Felipe or email bajaanimalrescue@yahoo.com with any leads, info or questions.
Steven, for
SAN FELIPE ANIMAL RESCUE
PMB 194 / BOX 9019
CALEXICO CA 92232
707-320-4969 from the US
in San Felipe 577-2708
bajaanimalrescue@yahoo.com
http://www.sfanimalrescue.org
United Hope 4 Animals
From the GSL Foundation meeting on Wednesday June, 25th with the directors of the dog pounds from Mexicali, Tijuana and Rosarito, United Hope will now order all the drugs to completely stop electrocution in Ensenada, Rosarito, Tijuana, Tecate, and Mexicali. Great day for the Baja...Wednesday June 25th 2008.
