Embark, the community animal welfare initiative of ODEL, said this unit has assisted a total of 7,183 stray dogs with the support of partner organizations since its inception in March 2007 upto Deceember 2010.
The programme, which leverages ODEL’s intuitive skill at fashion retail to raise funds for the cause and promote care for street pooches, said 2010 was its busiest year to date, with multiple projects and campaigns generating wider community participation.
In the 12 months to December 2010, Embark had sterilised and vaccinated 1802 stray dogs, provided vaccines for another 831, rescued 155 injured animals off the streets, provided special treatments to 803 more and found homes for 88, according to an ODEL press release.
This brought the cumulative number of dogs sterilised and vaccinated to 4,306, and the number of dogs vaccinated to 1,547. Special treatments had been provided to 909 street dogs and a total of 207 injured had been rescued. The number of strays re-homed by the programme stood at 214. |
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