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As a hands-on organization, AWENET’s work is anchored on the appreciation that animals have intrinsic value and are sentient beings able to respond to physiological changes in the environment. Our projects are targeted at establishing animal welfare as a community-driven responsibility that is owned and driven at grassroots level.
The organization has committed itself to spearheading a number of animal welfare changes that would effectively cater for the protection and care for animals at all levels.

In Africa, animal production system, to a large extent, is the basis of survival for millions of people. Between 70% and 90% of the livestock on the continent are produced in extensive natural grazing mainly in pastoral areas. The expansion of intensive animal production system and the commercialization of animal transport and ploughing services undermine the relationship between the animals and their owners.

In addition, the destruction and depletion of wildlife habitats owing to rising human population, land use changes, encroachment of forested areas and expansion in cultivation and settlements has resulted to significant human-wildlife conflicts.

Notably, there has been an escalation of poaching activities following an intense rise in the prices of animal trophies in the black international market, corruption, sophistication in poaching methods and proliferation of small arms. A massive rise in the demand for, and hence trade in bush meat is leading to the snaring and killing of big numbers of wildlife. Rising poverty levels and exacerbation of human-animal relationships is as a result of low economic development, unemployment and underemployment particularly in rural areas.

At AWENET, we endeavor to arouse an interest amongst stakeholders on animal welfare issues and activities making animal protection and care attractive to local communities and the society. Further, we strive to ensure that animal welfare is adopted as part of the development agenda in Tanzania

There are animal cruelty abuses such as dragging cattle by their tails or using electric shockers, rough handling, failing to provide adequate facilities or shelter, etc. Factory Farming or Industrial Agriculture is unfortunately responsible for over 90% of farm animal cruelty and environmental degradation. The cruelty is at a massive scale and Africa doesn’t have to repeat or accommodate the systems that only seek profit over animal well-being and environmental protection.
Some of the issues that AWENET works on are:

Humane education is broadly defined as education that nurtures compassion and respect for living beings. In addition to focusing on the humane treatment of non-human animals, humane education also increasingly contains content related to the environment, the compassionate treatment of other people, and the interconnectedness of issues pertaining to people and the planet. The Institute for Humane Education believes that humane education is the key to achieving “a world where all have the passion and skills to solve the most pressing challenges of our time.” Ensuring that through our daily choices, we choose activities, work and policies that are accommodating to our environment and animals. Humane education as a discrete field of education was created in the late 1800s by individuals like George Angell as an attempt to address social injustices and prevent cruelty to animals before it started
The aim of humane education is to create a culture of empathy and caring by encouraging and facilitating the moral development of individuals and groups to form a compassionate and responsible society.

Working animals, mainly equids, camelids and bovids, are draught animals that perform transport and traction activities. In developed countries technological development has resulted in animal power being minimized, however, in developing countries most agricultural operations are still being conducted by animals, and animal welfare is a major concern. Inadequate knowledge and inappropriate attitudes and practices regarding the management and welfare of working animals are the main contributory factors to welfare problems.
There is much room for improvement in the welfare of working animals, via the provision of basic veterinary care, technical advice on health and husbandry, including foot care, improved design and maintenance of harnesses and other equipment, and the development of appropriate policies and legislation.

We advocate for responsible pet ownership. Especially in our impoverished communities, we need to take special care for those individuals and families who depend on their companion animal for love, care and protection. Being poor doesn’t mean you don’t deserve a pet,
however, if you have one, how do you take care of it and meet its (his/her) needs?

Wild animals are caught in the wild for the use a variety of things, including but not limited to their skin, body parts, medicine, etc. On the hand witchcraft and local belief have been the driving force for poaching and cruelty to wild animals. Wild animal- human conflicts has been growing leading to compromised welfare to both wild animals and human being due to human settlement expansion, climate changes consequences and road accidents involving human being and wild animals. At AWENET we oversee to have a clear National policy on the mitigation of conflicts when the welfare of either human being or wildlife has been compromised. Conservation education to the general public is inadequate,
and at large wild animals are protected by laws and regulation alone rather than a collaborative role.

This program area is largely informed by the various forms of reported human-animal conflict. Generally, as a result of; the presence of environmental degradation, encroachment and increased land fragmentation has resulted in an incremental trend in cases of human-animal conflict globally. In Tanzania, and based on several underlying factors; whether social, economic, technological and/or environmental nature, such cases often result in destruction of property or loss of biodiversity through habitat destruction or destabilization of the ecosystems’ equilibrium. In some cases, loss of human life has been observed through violent/active involvement of animals or via passive/indirect routes such as zoonotic disease spread. AWENET works with government and like-minded stakeholders to carry out interventions that contribute to maintaining a balance between various human practices and animal survival (biodiversity conservation).
Our focus on communities is generally geared towards innovative use of technology to provide solutions to causes of conflict and placement of affordable mitigation measures.

To keep the planet flourishing, 30% of Earth needs protection by 2030.The move would safeguard biodiversity, slow extinctions, and help maintain a steady climate. At AWENET we call in the government and likeminded stake holders to join us on our collaborative movement on afforestation, reforestation, agro- forestation, rivers sources and banks conservation, lakes and ocean beach sanitization, and recycling of plastics and glassware.