Lanta Animal Welfare has teamed up with two other Thailand charities – All For Villages and the Jan and Oscar Foundation – in a unique partnership aimed at improving environmental and animal welfare on the small island of Koh Chang, in Ranong Province.
Having worked with All For Villages for several years on the island of Koh Payam, Lanta Animal Welfare was delighted to offer its assistance in this new project to benefit the local Moken community.
The Moken are a sea gypsy people who used to live for months and months on the ocean, rarely visiting land, but in more recent times they have been forced to settle on islands in the Andaman Sea on the west coast of Thailand.
The Moken communities are heavily polluted due to the introduction of plastic, and there are often many, many animals roaming around because the people are largely ignored, the government does not visit the regions and there is no support network of any kind.
Many Moken villagers do not even have Thai citizenship so All For Villages has, for many years, been assisting them with basic human necessities such as food, education and health care.
This joint venture is an extension of that fantastic work. Generously funded by All For Villages and the Jan and Oscar Foundation, our team was able to visit recently where we found horrendous living conditions for humans and animals.
Our veterinary team sterilised around 30 dogs on this first visit, as well as numerous cats, and we helped begin the cleanup campaign on the island.
This is just the start, however. There is lots of work still to be done and our plan it to visit the island annually.
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