Animal Welfare Education and Awareness Program “Living with the animals” in Crete and the islands of the Aegean
2011 report Animal Welfare Association of Chania “Animal Protection” NGO Zophoros Heraklion Panhellenic Federation of Animal Welfare and Environmental Organisations Panhellenic Coordination Committee of Animal Welfare Unions Necessity of education and awareness in schools Companion animal welfare is a growing issue in Greece with serious implications in many aspects of cultural, social and economic life. Through our daily volunteer work, we witness countless acts of cruelty, poison and murder especially of stray animals. In villages, towns, cities and even inside schools we come across incidents of extreme abuse which are unfortunately met by many as an unavoidable reality about which nothing can be done. Simultaneously, many animals are considered as tools which have no value as soon as they stop being useful to man, while a number of myths concerning their intelligence, sentiments, feelings or even needs determine the way we live with them. […]
