Our Values
Professional Excellence
Transparent Governance
Accountable Service Provision
Respect For The Dignity Of Others
We are a welfare veterinary care provider; we drive access to veterinary care for animals in low to no income targeted communities.
Our services are funded by donors and sustainable income streams and we are proudly supported by committed volunteers who increase our capacity to successfully deliver our mandate.
All services are rendered within the financial and professional capacity afforded to us.
Professional Excellence
Transparent Governance
Accountable Service Provision
Respect For The Dignity Of Others
The Society for Animals in Distress provides professional veterinary care that is built on a foundation of focused animal care education within marginalised communities.
Every Spring we sell our “home grown” organic compost to the public on a first come-first serve basis.
SAID hosts an annual Golf Day and also partakes in other sporting events where our loyal supporters can run or cycle for a cause close to their hearts
We collect and resell your pre-loved goods and second-hand books to raise much needed funds for our animals.
Thanks to our wonderful volunteers we have several weekend tin collection teams at specific shopping centres across Johannesburg. These teams gather monthly on a rotational basis to raise funds for our cause. We also have static tins placed strategically across Gauteng.
The public is encouraged to register with MySchool and add us as a beneficiary. This is 100% free and costs you nothing. As you spend, we earn.
SAID has a catalogue of various new and second-hand products that we sell to the general public. The catalogue can be found on our website.
We are blessed to have a 4.2ha farm and with that we have a few older buildings that we have refurbished and currently rent out to other businesses. We aim to expand this further.
At the small animal hospital we generate funding by charging all NGOs a nominal fee for professional veterinary services. We also encourage our community members serviced by our mobile units to donate towards the treatment of their animals with the aim to promote responsible animal ownership and encourage an active interest in the alleviation of animal suffering. No treatment is ever refused if a client is unable to donate towards their pet’s treatment. The development of trust in our professional staff engenders pride in our client’s commitment to their animals.
We continually applying our minds on how to generate additional funding, whether through payroll giving, general grant and proposal applications, debit orders etc. SAID has been very blessed to be the recipients of small to extremely generous deceased estates over the years and is looking to maximise this avenue further through strategic partnerships with banks and wealth management companies.
SINCE 2004
Established in 2004, this project was intended to secure the health and wellbeing of equine in the Tembisa area of Ekurhuleni and Ivory Park, Johannesburg. The success of this project included the reduction of 360 working equine to sum 30 equine in 2020.
With the support of The Society providing access to veterinary care, securing of paddocks, improved harnessing and farriery, the wellbeing of the animals, the owners’ micro-enterprise income capacity was enhanced.
The stabilisation of herds and the increased ability of owners to afford mechanisation resulted in the desired decline of working animals in unfit circumstances.
With the decline of working equine from the Coal yard Project, the surrender of animals birthed the need to ensure that these equine remain valuable in secure homes.
The Diamonds from Dust Program and the building of trust, re-programming and backing produces safe equine foster companions for adults and children and a lifetime of pamper and care. The program has also been instrumental in the selected protection of equine made vulnerable by the economic circumstance of their caring owners.