ANIMALS OF OUR WORLD BY GEORGIA KACZOROWSKI
GEORGIA Kaczorowski & her partner Billy run Animals Of Our World & House of Strays, a Rescue/ Rehabilitation/ Rehome mission in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Animals Of Our World is an anti-speciesist animal rescue organization and UK-registered charity. A community outreach mission to sterilize and prevent future suffering whilst rescuing those struggling most along the way. We also provide FREE medical treatment and education to local poverty-stricken families to treat their sick and injured animals. We aim to make a difference in individual’s lives through rehabilitation and thousands of lives through sterilization. Before Covid-19 our shelter ‘House Of Strays’ was sustainable through donations, our rescue bar, and our pet boarding service. We created a rescue bar for travelers to come and stop by along their travels to learn more about our essential work, how we started, what we 32
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are now doing, and most importantly what you can do on your travels to make a difference. The bar was a huge success amongst the backpacker community and it was a great way to increase our exposure and support. Then when tourism was non-existent, so was our rescue bar. Our support system dwindled away and we have struggled immensely to keep our sanctuary alive. Small non-profit shelters everywhere will have been impacted by Covid and some will not have survived through the struggle. We’re very lucky AOOW is still here and the fight continues. We were hoping to be moved into our new shelter by 2021, but now I think that was a very hopeful dream. We are getting there but a build this big takes a lot of time and even more funds.
We currently have 105 rescues that we must safely care for and that requires separated areas and specialized enclosures. We would love to complete our paralyzed enclosure and our onsite hospital area in the next few months, but this is completely dependent on if we raise enough funds. After we complete the build we can finally get back to pushing funds into the community and restarting our desexing missions. After rehoming an orphan kitten and rescuing a monkey held captive in a cage in Luang Prabang, Laos... we made our way to Cambodia. Four kittens were rescued in the capital Phnom Penh and again we had no plan. We bottle-fed them until they were strong and then vaccinated and desexed. It was time to find them a
