Help out animals through these charities!

SAFE is an organisation that speaks up for the animals that have no voices.

They educate the public and promote compassion having an incredibly positive impact on the lives of animals as well as the planet.

Right now one of their actions is trying to get a ban on rodeo in New Zealand which causes suffering and immense stress to the animals involved. You can sign a petition for this here- https://goo.gl/xFUFsa.

They have had a lot of successful actions in the past such as getting the ban of party pills being tested on dogs, rabbits and rats, exposing factory farming of pigs and reuniting Mila the ex circus elephant with her own kind after many years. These are only a few examples of their accomplishments completed in 2014. You can find out more on their website (http://www.safe.org.nz/) as well as by participating in Go Veg month this month, it's never too late to try and when you sign up you get a selection of vegetarian recipes.

The New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society is less known but a great animal rights society focusing on the abolition of vivisection on the grounds that it is scientific fraud. Their campaign focuses on the cruelty and exploitation of the animals by the vivisection industry. Right now one of their campaigns is End The Draize, the Draize test involves inhumane cruelty towards rabbits in particular which recently they had a success with Nick Smith saying how the requirement of the draize test will be removed from NZ legislation. They have also been involved with the cruelty free cosmetics campaign in NZ which was successful. You can check out the website for more info (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/).

Both of these charities are non profit organisations which is why it is so important to have fundraisers for them in order to ensure that they can keep doing great work helping the animals.