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. |