SULAIMAN TAMEER SAEED - Kurdistan

World Animal Day Ambassador

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SULAIMAN T SAEED, PRESIDENT & FOUNDER OF KURDISTAN ORGANIZATION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS PROTECTION(KOARP)
 
 
Sulaiman
 
 
 
   
EMAIL:
 
kurdistananimalrights(at)yahoo(dot)com
 
   
WEBSITE:
   
   
TELEPHONE:
 
+964 7504 581805 (mobile)
 
   
ADDRESS:
 
Kurdistan Organization of Animal Rights Protection (KOARP)
Duhok
Kurdistan Region
IRAQ
 
 
 
 
AIMS / MISSION STATEMENT:
 
 

A professional, independent, NGO working to protect the rights of animals:

  • providing free veterinary care including emergency aid to all animals with particular focus on stray dogs and cats;
  • educating people to protect them and the environment from disease;
  • raising awareness of animal welfare amongst owners of animals;
  • carrying out humane education programmes in schools;
  • protecting wild animals, improving their welfare by developing their survival conditions in order to protect Kurdistan's environment and natural resources;
  • lobbying for the introduction of animal protection legislation;
  • working to reduce the number of stray animals by spaying and neutering;
  • providing suitable shelter and the necessary care for stray animals;
  • lobbying to bring to dog fighting, turkey fighting, and destruction of the environment and animals by using explosives/bombs/poison to hunt them;
  • providing veterinary services to people with a limited income who could not otherwise provide the necessary care for their animals;
  • helping and working with the Ministry of Education to create new programs of education covering animal welfare issues to ensure the next generation is well informed.
 
 
 
 
OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN:
 
 

KOARP is the first and only organization in Kurdistan working in the animal welfare sphere. The organization is currently working in the following areas:


1. Veterinary Services: providing a veterinary service to stray, abandoned, homeless and infected animals operated by volunteer vets. We are seeking to introduce two mobile veterinary clinics in the future.

2. Working with members of parliament to approve a law protecting animals.

3. Educational Program: we publish children's education through newspapers, magazines, radio and television with a special focus on kindergarten, nursery and primary school. We also carry out training programmes for zoo staff.

4. Wildlife Protection: We are working to educate people against hunting through lecturing seminars, symposiums and posters.

5. Shelters: building a shelter and sanctuary to shelter stray, abandoned, homeless and neglected animals. 

6. Monitoring animal experiments being carried our at the Veterinary Medicine College and Science College.

7. Publishing a book on how to raise, care for and handle domestic animals.

 
                       
 

Education is one of our priorities which takes place in schools and at the zoo.

 
         
     
  Education via newspapers, magazines, seminars and in the classroom   Many stray animals are rescued needing immediate veterinary care  
     
  An operation in progress   Participants in our education programme