World Animal Awareness Society

It’s estimated that there are 80 million stray dogs in America. 80 million flea-covered, neglected, starving animals on our streets.
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HOUSTON'S BUREAU OF ANIMAL REGULATION AND CONTROL ESTIMATES THERE ARE AS MANY AS 300,000 DOGS ON HOUSTON STREETS ANY GIVEN DAY!

But no one has accurate numbers because a census has never been made. In fact, very little has been done at all. With so many problems facing our society, the welfare of a city’s stray dogs ranks too low for our leaders to take serious action. It’s up to us, people who feel deeply the need to act on this issue.

The World Animal Awareness Society is seeking to put an end to this public epidemic with our American Strays 2030 Project; a comprehensive strategy of action and education to address the amount of homeless and abandoned dogs at risk in our cities.

The Approach is 3-Fold:

Outreach:
"AMERICAN STRAYS A Tale of Animal Warfare", the 3-years-in-the-making documentary will be released to film festivals and television to engage the public and set the stage for the final 2 components. AMERICAN STRAYS is being produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Tom McPhee. Tom is also the Executive Director of the World Animal Awareness Society and lead architect of the AMERICAN STRAYS 2030 Project. Tom's WA2S Executive Director bio and link to cv are here: http://www.WA2S.org/executi...

Population Survey:
No major city has accurate stray dog numbers. With a fleet of volunteers, the 2030 Project will conduct essential annual city-wide surveys of the country’s most at-risk cities. Because until the scope of the problem is understood, nothing can be solved.

Education:
All roads toward a stray dog solution begin with education. Most people have no idea this problem even exists and has reached epidemic levels. The American Strays 2030 Project has been producing comprehensive STEM / CORE classroom lesson plans to begin in Gr. 4 in an effort to educate a new generation in the care and treatment of domesticated animals.

Our society is only as healthy as our most dependent citizens. If dogs are truly our best friends, we cannot fail them in their hour of need. If we’re to solve this public health crisis, it must come from us - people who truly care. “Liking”Facebook rescue videos simply isn’t going to cut it.

With your help, this campaign can tackle this issue head-on and provide real results.

There has never been an epidemic of stray dogs in our cities like there is today, but there has also never been a strategy like the American Strays 2030 Project to solve it.

Find a perk that's right for you and with your help we can lick this stray dog crisis right under our noses.

What Your Funding Supports Through $40,000!
- Completing production of the film: AMERICAN STRAYS
- Events to raise awareness
- DVD production
- Distribution
- Multiple Language Tracks

The more we can raise, the further we can promote this important film and ultimately influence change on a mass scale.

Once the film, American Strays is funded we can then work toward the first stretch goal of surveying American cities, and a second stretch goal of producing lesson plans for thousands of US elementary schools. We can truly fix this crisis by 2030 by reaching our third funding goal - the education initiative. Look for these stretch goals to kick in once we raise the first $40k

The Impact:
After studying the problem of stray dogs for the past 5 years, the World Animal Awareness society has built a model helping communities deliver every precious resource aimed squarely on the target - and we can identify the causes and fix them.

American Strays the documentary will bring to the forefront the enormity of the stray dog population on US city streets. It is the first door to walk through and we illustrate how important it is to measure a city's successes - or failures.

If we all come together, we can create very specific lesson plans.

Our research tells us: the lack of education is the number one culprit to the growing stray dog crisis. Reaching stretch goal number 2 will allow the World Animal Awareness Society to seed thousands of US elementary schools with CORE / STEM based lesson plans create custom for each city by award-winning teachers.

You are such an essential part to the success of the message and we are so grateful for your strong and bold support!!! Thank you so much!

WA2S Films is:
Deanna Vollano & Tom McPhee

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