P.A.W.S.

P.A.W.S., Protecting Animals without Shelter (3768), is our partner organization in Cyprus. P.A.W.S. was created by a small team of people in Nicosia in 2012. There was a need for an animal welfare organization that would run without a physical shelter, meant for all the animals of Cyprus without one to protect them. To fulfill this need P.A.W.S. aimed to spay and neuter as many dogs and cats as possible, to foster the dogs and cats able to be rehomed and to run educational programs in schools and they have done exactly that and so much more.

P.A.W.S. also takes part in discussions about the laws regarding animal welfare, they've organized demonstrations against the injustice animals face and have in part made the problem of the stray and abandoned animals in Cyprus known in the rest of the Europe.

The people behind P.A.W.S. believe that to change the animal welfare of a country one needs to start from the inside; educate people, change and implement laws and spay and neuter the animals. In the over ten years they have been operational P.A.W.S. has saved thousands of animals by taking them off the streets, providing them with medical care and rehoming them when possible. They have also done over 200 presentations of animal welfare in various schools around Cyprus in an effort to raise a new generation of animal lovers and responsible pet guardians.

At the moment P.A.W.S. spays and neuters a number of dogs that have irresponsible or poor owners in Cyprus. They have 6 colonies of cats which they care for daily and they run TNR programs (Trap, Neuter, Release, when feral cats are trapped, spayed or neutered and then released back into the environment) covering over 250 cats a year in addition to which they also rescue kittens in need and adult cats that have medical issues.

P.A.W.S. runs on private donations and income from a big second-hand book bazaar they organize 3-4 times a year, raising funds to cover their needs. Aligned with their belief in a balanced world in order for things to progress, the bazaar also acts as an environmental project aiming to reuse as many books as possible instead of them ending up in landfills and recycling.

You can help P.A.W.S. and in the process our cats as well by donating through a direct bank transfer, PayPal or QuickPay/Revolut. They are also currently (starting on the 12th of July 2024) running a fundraiser through petfundr which you can find here.

P.A.W.S. Protecting Animals Without Shelter

IBAN CY83 0020 0195 0000 3570 1077 1752

address: Ippokratous 29 app 21, 2325 Lakatamia, Nicosia, Cyprus

PayPal: info.pawscy@gmail.com

QuickPay & Revolut: 99673174