Volunteering · 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Give time or skills

On site, a shelter needs hands all year round: cleaning, walking, socializing fearful dogs, helping on sterilization days. If you travel to one of these countries, a few hours on site is often worth more than a donation. Let the organization know in advance — an unplanned visit disrupts more than it helps.

Remotely, certain skills are sorely lacking. Photography first: a poorly photographed dog stays in the shelter, a well-photographed dog finds a family. Many organizations publish phone photos taken in a kennel under bad lighting. A two-hour session changes their chances.

Also in demand: translation of adoption profiles, redesigning a website, running a social media account, writing grant applications, accounting. An organization handling a hundred dogs does not have an art director.

How to offer: contact the organization with a precise offer and an example of what you can do. A vague proposal gets no reply. A dated, concrete proposal is almost always accepted.

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Note

A reality unique to the Emirates: every wave of expatriate departures leaves behind abandoned dogs, tied to posts or released into the desert, and shelters are overwhelmed. Leaving with your dog is, however, possible and regulated: the rules allow the export of two dogs per person per year, the paperwork is obtained from MOCCAE, and IPATA-certified carriers organize the trip from start to finish. What is missing is never the solution, it is the planning: the process should start months before departure, not the week of the move. If you are leaving, leave together. And if you are staying, the shelters below need foster homes for the dogs others have left behind.

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