As everything is slowly going back to normal, it appears that service groups will make a return as well.
I am part of the service group known as “Care for Paws”, which aims to help combat animal abuse in Sri Lanka. One of the absolute highlights for Care for Paws is to plan and execute a sterilization camp at least once a year. The camp is the penultimate event for the group every year and is the reason for other events that we organized over the year. All the money obtained from previous events such as bake sales or such is used for this camp, in which we collect a big number of street dogs to sterilize over the course of a few hours. This is done due to the massive problem of dog overpopulation in Sri Lanka, with it being so bad that if the population of these dogs continue to grow, it may get to a point where they may need to be ordered to death by the government. Therefore, organizing this camp can prevent future catastrophes regarding the population of dogs in Sri Lanka.
I myself have only attended the camp once due to COVID, but hopefully we may get another chance at it during the end of this school year.
Written, November 16, 2021