Our work in Morocco did not begin with a single animal. And it was never about just one problem.
When we first began to look closely at the situation, we quickly noticed that behind the fate of thousands of stray dogs and cats lay a far more serious problem. A problem that cannot be solved with one rescue, one transport or one fundraiser.
So we decided to act on a bigger scale.
Our coordinators made contact with local activists, first in the north of Morocco, and over time our help began to reach other parts of the country too. They built a network of people who are on the ground every day. They are the ones who spot animals on the streets, answer the phone, arrange transport to the clinic, feed, treat and act when every hour counts. Keeping this network going is real work. It means answering messages late into the night, deciding which cases cannot wait, and staying in spirit with an animal even from hundreds of kilometres away.
We help them to do it.
Thanks to your support, we fund treatment. We help to buy food. We are involved in sterilisation and neutering programmes and use a humane model: catching the animal, carrying out the procedure and safely returning it to the place it knows. We also support local projects, including the Hayat project, which seek to change the situation of animals where the problem truly begins: on the streets.
Sometimes, however, a bowl of food or a sterilisation is not enough.
It happens that animals are hit by cars. These are dogs who need immediate veterinary help. Animals so sick, injured or weak that without swift intervention they may not survive another day. That is when our team steps in, providing emergency assistance. Thanks to the group of people with whom we remain in constant contact, we can respond to every urgent call, arrange help on the spot, discuss difficult cases and make sure the animals receive treatment.
You can see it in the animals.
A dog who was barely pulled from the road, who a few days later lifts his head, then stands up, and then begins to eat by himself. A frightened street cat who slowly learns that a human hand can be gentle. These are not small things. For that animal, it means the whole world has changed.
Some of the rescued animals then set out on another journey. We look for new owners for them and a chance at a new life far from the place where they were found. Sometimes that means hundreds, even thousands of kilometres between a Moroccan street and the home where they will finally feel safe for the first time.
Our work in Morocco has another side too.
We have long been speaking out about homelessness and the way animals are treated there. We strongly oppose the mass removal and killing of stray dogs. Alongside direct rescue work, we want to talk about solutions that are humane and that can bring real change over time. Sterilisation. Neutering. Treatment. Vaccination. Education. Cooperation with the local community. Because the problem of stray animals cannot be solved by removing them from the streets. You have to act at the source.
That is exactly why the scope of our help in Morocco is so broad.
Sometimes it is a paid bill for a clinic visit. At other times – a sack of food, another sterilisation or the transport of an injured dog. Sometimes it is weeks of conversations and organising help for a single animal. And sometimes it is our coordinators connecting people who live hundreds of kilometres apart, who together can save one life.
We may be based in Poland, but part of our work takes place there every day. In messages. In phone calls. In photos sent from the streets. In urgent alerts. In conversations with clinics and activists. In decisions that sometimes have to be made in the blink of an eye.
Because helping from a distance is still being close.
Today we have people in Morocco whom we trust and with whom we can work. We have contacts, experience and a growing network of people committed to helping. And we will keep expanding it. We do not want merely to react to one desperate call for help after another. We want there to be fewer and fewer of them.
All of this is possible only because of you.
In Morocco we learned something that we carry in our hearts everywhere: no situation is too difficult to change, as long as enough people refuse to give up. Every animal healed, every safe adoption, every quiet victory on the streets is proof of that. So we will keep going, together with you, until the day this country needs us less. And until that day comes, we will never stop.
