SAMAST: Vehicle Trouble
(If you don’t know about SA MAST, you should. They do outstanding work in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, sterilising and rescuing animals. I received this appeal this week. Please assist if you can, sterilisation is at the very core of our war against animal neglect and abuse… – animalman)
We are in trouble.
Our patient collection and return vehicle, without which our mass animal sterilisation programme cannot function, urgently requires repairs.
The in-tank fuel pump has broken and needs to be replaced at a cost of R4900 from the agents. There is no cheaper ‘pirate’ part available. We tried a quick fix but it didn’t work and has resulted in us having to tow the vehicle back to a workshop – three times. Luckily, we did not have any patients in the vehicle at the time.
Geoff’s Auto Centre in Wynberg has kindly committed to repairing the vehicle at no charge. But we need to purchase the in-tank fuel pump part first. If you would like to independently verify the above please contact the Owner, Jonothan Wendell.
If you can, please help us get our vehicle back on the road. No donation is too small and we can issue tax donation certificates!
Ways you can help:
1. Make a credit card donation. Go to www.samast.co.za
2. Make a direct deposit: SA.MAST, Nedbank, Acc: 167 603 1707, Bcc: 167 609, Houtba
3. Request a debit order form and help us to keep our vehicle road worthy and to sterilise patients.
This year, we have sterilised over 900 patients in Khayelitsha.
In total we have sterilised over 3400 patients in Khayelitsha.
All patients have received essential primary treatment too.
In addition to our mass animal sterilisation programme we are often involved in rescuing abandoned or neglected animals. Just last month 10 puppies and three adult females were rescued. The eldest adult female, mother to the four day old pups, was also the mother of the two younger adult females who were, according to their guardian, already on their third litter each.
Sadly, we learned that of an original 23 puppies we only got to rescue 10 of them. A couple had been taken by passers by, but most had died and been thrown into the river. If we had been able to sterilise the ‘granny’ at the outset, all this would have been avoided. Khayelitsha is an enormous place but thanks to our sterilisation programme we were able to come across these 13 dogs in need of help.
SAMAST
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