"I can’t look away anymore."

• Donations In Action

In the township of Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, Tebogo Maredi started with five dogs and a decision that “I can’t look away anymore.” After losing his job, he and his dog Ellie moved into a community where he saw animals chained to trees, starving, or living in pits at bus depots. From that moment, he began rescuing. Today, Soshanguve Animal Shelter and Educentre is caring for more than 200 dogs. With our help — and yours — the shelter is feeding, vaccinating, and getting vet care for the sick and injured, including crisis cases like a tiny Yorkie found vomiting and weak on the street, a puppy whose eye had been bitten and needed urgent veterinary intervention, and even a terrified dog trapped for three days at a bus depot pit during a strike and too afraid to climb out. Every one of those animals got help because people like you chose to stand with this shelter.

Soshanguve is not just rescue. Tebogo uses donations to educate children in the community about kindness, teaches responsible ownership, and involves young people in walking and caring for the dogs. This is how cruelty culture changes — not with lectures, but with connection. But the shelter is under constant strain: fuel to drive an injured animal to the vet, outstanding vet bills, unpaid medication, and the cost of sterilizing and vaccinating dogs and cats before they can be safely adopted. It is nonstop, and it’s bigger than one man. It now survives because supporters like you refuse to let him drown.