SAPT Hellas

NGO

SAPT Hellas (Stray Action - Pet Therapy Hellas, a non-profit organisation) was founded in 2005 with the following goals:

• To inform children, the future citizens of Greece, both in theory and in practice - about the right behaviour towards dogs (stray or owned) and sensitise them with regard to the crucial problem of stray dogs. "Informative Campaign" project.
• To offer social/community welfare services to disabled (mentally or physically) people of all ages by bringing them in physical contact with cross-bred, former stray but now adopted and trained dogs of our volunteers. "Pet-Assisted Therapy" project.
• To help resolve or at least alleviate the "problem" of the ever increasing stray dogs by promoting and supporting with enough benefits the adoption of dogs without a home. "Adoption of Companion-Dogs" project. Please note that we do not have premises so we do not rescue or keep stray dogs.

Of course, we quote the word "problem" because we, humans, created the problem, by abandoning our dog easily, not spaying or neutering our dog and by giving away or selling its puppies with no further consideration as to their very possible abandonment or neglect, etc.

Note
While you browse through our pages, you will very frequently come across the words "guardian" or "guardianship" of a dog instead of the words "owner" or "ownership". Please consider this as our "stigma". We find the word "guardianship" to be a much more suitable word because the time has come for people to realise that being the guardian of a dog (much like being the guardian of a child) implies much more in terms of responsibility than that of owning a car or a house.