25/07/2024
BRAVO, AFRIPAW❣💞
A handful of four-legged companions from Vrygrond in Cape Town got to test out a new bicycle taxi for pets run by the organisation, AfriPaw. The aim of the initiative is to provide access to the animal clinics for pets living in under-resourced communities like Vrygrond.
“We noticed that people were unable to come to the clinic because their pets didn’t want to walk the distance,” says Anél Wesson, Director and Co-Founder of AfriPaw. Once a month the organisation brings a mobile clinic to the parking lot at Capricorn primary school where they offer vaccinations, sterilisations, and a number of other health checks.
Wesson says they found that some pet owners in the area were too old to walk to the mobile clinic. She says that after they saw a number of people bring their pets to the clinic in trolleys, they began to toy with the idea of starting a pet taxi.
https://groundup.org.za/article/four-legged-companions-test-the-first-pet-taxi-in-vrygrond/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1MZmGRAapNK6kQgTJEfgHEXhARwdGyrv33bHRfwNNb0NL458HmZc__R78_aem_TnaxlziY0wKRdzeE5sisgA
The taxi is being piloted by AfriPaw and is aimed at providing access to its free monthly animal clinics for pets living in poor communities like Vrygrond
