The Tribune

FOR a second year The Sandals Foundation was able to lend support to Operation Potcake’s spay and neutering campaign, which will eventually work to decrease the amount of stray animals roaming the streets of New Providence.

Operation Potcake’s five-day spay and neuter campaign this year saw foreign and local doctors fix 1,184 cats and dogs.

“We’re so grateful for the Sandals Foundation to sponsor us, the 10 rooms it helps that all the volunteers could stay in the same place,” said Laura Kimble, one of the lead organisers of Operation Potcake.

“Our volunteers pay for their own plane tickets to come down here, so they are blown away that they get to stay at this beautiful place.

“We are really pleased (at the results of this year’s Operation Potcake) because it was five days this year instead of ten days and we were able to do a little more than half of the numbers we did last year, in half the time.”

Deputy Prime Minister Brave Davis last year lauded Operation Potcake’s programme for helping to make Bahamian communities a better place.

“The Sandals Foundation is so pleased to partner with Operation Potcake once again,” said Heidi Clarke, Director of Programmes for the Sandals Foundation. “Unfortunately, here in the Caribbean there are far too many street animals suffering and struggling to survive. Spaying and Neutering is one of the most humane ways to prevent this problem.”

Three of the Sandals Foundation’s ‘pillars’ are environment, community and education, and Operation Potcake touches on each of those in a different way.

“Operation Potcake offers this much needed programme to ensure the animals in the Bahamas are both wanted and living healthy lives,” said Clarke.

“Sandals Foundation believes this is just one more way we can play our part in creating safer and more desirable communities.”