{"id":239275,"date":"2022-10-06T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/no-lotteries-funds-for-animal-welfare-next-year\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:08:02","slug":"no-lottery-funds-for-animal-welfare-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/no-lottery-funds-for-animal-welfare-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"No Lottery funds for animal welfare next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p><a class=\"bigger-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/media\/uploads\/images\/photographers\/Ashraf%20Hendricks\/Tears%20animal%20rescue\/Tears-6662HR.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/no-lottery-funds-for-animal-welfare-next-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The National Lotteries Commission has decided not to fund animal welfare in 2022-23. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) has excluded animal welfare as a priority for funding in 2022\/2023.<\/li>\n<li>Animal welfare organisations say that the NLC does not understand the importance of their work.<\/li>\n<li>Some say that funds are not worth applying for because the application process is so laborious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) has made the \u201ctough decision\u201d to drop animal welfare as a focus area for funding in 2022\/2023, a decision which some organisations say is ignorant and unfair. Others say that the application for NLC funding is laborious and simply not worth applying for.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"leave\" height=\"1\" id=\"gu_counter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/no-lottery-funds-for-animal-welfare-next-year.gif\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>In its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlcsa.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Advert-Charities-Sector-2022_23.pdf\">call for applications<\/a>, the NLC excluded animal welfare as a funding priority. The decision was \u201ctough\u201d, according to NLC spokesperson Ndivhuho Mafela. The NLC said funding priorities for the charities sector in 2022\/2023 are: 35% towards early childhood development, 30% towards the fight against gender-based violence, and 35% towards protection of the vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Mafela said the \u201cdemand for funding far outstrips the supply every year\u201d and this means the NLC has to make difficult decisions about what to fund. He said that animal welfare will be considered for future funding cycles \u201cif it is possible to include it among many urgent and competing priorities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During 2020\/2021, Mafela said, 21 animal welfare organisations applied and nine were funded to the value of about R2.8-million. In 2021\/2022, 50 animal welfare organisations applied for NLC funding, and ten organisations were funded to the value of R4.6-million.<\/p>\n<p>Allan Perrins, spokesperson of the Animal Welfare Society of South Africa, said they had applied in the past but had stopped. The application process was too laborious, he said, and funding sometimes came years later, even for urgent projects. \u201cI don\u2019t know whether the pain\u2019s worth the gain,\u201d said Perrins.<\/p>\n<p>GroundUp previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/spca-dropped-lottery\/\">reported<\/a> on the NLC dropping funding for animal welfare for the years 2016\/2017, a move which caused the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) to reduce its free services to animal owners.<\/p>\n<p>Karen de Klerk, chairperson of the Cape Animal Welfare Forum (CAWF), which is an umbrella body of several animal welfare organisations across the Western Cape, said members were unhappy with the NLC\u2019s choice. Lottery funding is a \u201clifeline\u201d for many of these organisations, she said.<\/p>\n<p>De Klerk said she doesn\u2019t think the NLC understands the importance of the animal welfare sector. She said animal welfare organisations provide crucial services to animals that spread diseases to the people who live near them, in informal settlements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the NLC has billions of rands in a year that they could allocate to very specific target projects to uplift the general health of the communities\u2019 animals through registered and reputable organisations. But they don\u2019t. They don\u2019t take it seriously enough,\u201d said De Klerk.<\/p>\n<p>She said it was too late now but CAWF would challenge the decision for the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Mafela of the NLC said the Commission recognised \u201cthat animal welfare is an issue many people feel strongly about, and that human well-being is inextricably linked to animal and ecosystem well-being, particularly in rural communities that rely on animals for their livelihoods\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article_copyright\">\n<p>\u00a9 2022 GroundUp. 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