SAFE members gather to grow organisation’s future

Representatives from Broome’s Saving Animals From Euthanasia group attended an inaugural roundtable conference last month to finalise a branch manual designed to guide future work.

The conference, held in Perth and funded by Lotterywest, brought together SAFE members from branches across WA including Kununurra, Port Hedland and Karratha, to discuss the completion of the operations manual.

Sue Hedley, who founded SAFE in Karratha in 2003 to address the lack of animal rescue services in WA’s north west, said the manual would guide new branches and grow the foster care model of animal care and adoption.

“We will be able to reach so many more animals in need of rehoming,” she said.

SAFE Broome president Wendy Roberts said the roll-out of the SAFE manual would provide members “greater ability” to align themselves with standardised processes of the SAFE ideals.

“This will give the entire group greater strength, especially in being able to apply for grants and be heard on a local and State Government level on the issue of domestic animals all across the State,” she said.

“We will be able to offer more to the people of our community, and their pets, and at the end of the day, that's what we are all about.”

SAFE is WA’s largest foster care-based animal rescue organisation, comprising temporary foster carers who open their homes to homeless cats and dogs while permanent homes are sought.

The primary goals of SAFE are an end to the over-population of pets in Australia, zero euthanasia of rehomable pets and a good quality of life for all companion animals.

For more information visit www.safe.asn.au.