YALA SPAY&NEUTER CLINIC
We are only £2000 away from making a difference to 1000s of lives.
Read below about our project, how to help and how to check our work.
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CLICK HERE TO DONATE VIA COLLCTIV
FACTS:
Yala is a safari region which is not looked after by any other charity.
It is a poor region where people rely only on tourism. But tourists only come to Yala for a day or two to visit the safari. Nobody stays around long enough to make any difference for the dogs, and they stay forgotten.
The animals are severely malnourished, struggling with mange, untreated wounds, cancer, with no access to veterinary care.
Since there also isn’t any spay&neuter program in place, puppies are being born into the live of misery with only around 15% of them making it adulthood.
You can see dead puppies alongside roads, victims of traffic accidents, wildlife or cruelty.
The only humane way how to prevent this is spay&neuter program.
IMPACT
We have been focusing on Hikkaduwa since 2023 and the difference is visible; we regularly get messages from tourists commenting on our effort.
In September 2025 we received this message from a tourist who spent over a month in Sri Lanka.
‘My first time on Sri Lanka. I had a small picture in my head what to expect. I arrived in Hikkaduwa with a vision of streets full of dogs and cats running around. But no! I was surprised how few dogs were running around alone and even if they did, they looked quite healthy. Meeting Nayana from Lucas Helps Dogs showed me how great work they do. Visiting the temple and seeing some of their dogs running around, playing, and eating all snacks I brought fulfilled my heart with happiness and gratefulness for people like Ali, Nayana and all those who are helping the creatures who can’t help themselves and has no rights on this beautiful but cruel to animals island. Great job! Wish you all best of luck and tones of love energy!
I wish all areas in Sri Lanka had someone like Lucas Helps Dogs to make a difference for the street animals.’
(Silwia from Sweden)
OUR PLAN:
We are planning to hold a 3 day spay&neuter clinic for street dogs and cats.
During this clinic we plan to treat at least 200 animals, they will all be spayed/neutered, vaccinated against rabies and provided with any treatment they may need.
200 may not sound like a huge number but… 200 dogs and their offsprings can produce hundreds of thousands of puppies in just 5 years.
And you must admit – preventing suffering of thousands of animals is worth it.
We also hope that by starting this clinic, we will inspire others to focus on this area.
DONATIONS:
This clinic is an ‘extra’. Our usual donations do not cover this huge cost. We are already on a good way there, with extra fundraisers, our Pawsome Day Out and extreme effort put into raising funds by Claudia Pinn from Claudia’s canines, we have a good head start but we are still around £2000 short of the funds we need.
Lucas Helps Dogs is a not for profit and run entirely by volunteers from their homes.
We do not have any rental expenses, no wages to pay, so 99% of all donations go directly help the dogs & cats (the remaining 1% is used for printing educational materials, insurances etc).
It only costs £30 to change one dog or cat life forever.
Click HERE to donate via collctiv
Click HERE to donate via paypal (if donating via paypal please make a note that the donation is for YALA clinic)
Here are our bank details for bacs / cheque donations (if donating via bank transfer please make a note that the donation is for YALA clinic):
Bank: Barclays Bank Plc
Account name: Lucas Helps Dogs
Account number: 23714403
Sort Code:20-68-15
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Donate by cheque:
Send a cheque payable to: Lucas Helps Dogs
to: 68 North Fields, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1FD, Dorset, UK