SRI LANKA
Our veterinary hospital is in Sri Lanka and this is where most of the action takes place. Hit us up if you would like to make an appointment or report a sick or injured street animal to us.
THINGS TO REMEMBER
We are a veterinary hospital, not a shelter. We do not admit healthy animals.
We provide veterinary care for animals between Matara and Tangalle. There may be exceptions, see here for advice.
As one of the only veterinary hospitals on the island, we are often inundated. Please be mindful and patient.
Email or phone is the best method of contact for all animal-related enquiries.
Please read our FAQs to see if your question is answered there; it will help our tired and overworked brains a lot!
WECare Hospital, 179a Kuruduwaththa Rd, Matara, Sri Lanka
Contact us
Report an animal in need
help@wecareworldwide.org.uk
General Enquiries
info@wecareworldwide.org.uk
Call Us
+94 (0)41 225 9390
WECare Hospital,
179A Kurunduwatta Road,
Thekkawatta, Kapugama,
Devinuwara, Southern Province,
Sri Lanka
United Kingdom
As a UK registered charity, our Head Office (that makes us sound posh- it’s only one person really, haha!) is in the North of England. Feel free to drop us a line with any fundraising ideas or if you would like to help in any way- we need as much support as possible!
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![Found this pic, which always makes us laugh as Jono and Janey look pissssssssed off, and we were going to make a joke about it but actually we thought we’d get real for a minute and be honest. These are the faces you don’t see behind the cheery social media façade. We’re exhausted. We’re overwhelmed. We’re sometimes not sure how much longer we can do this, and we feel guilty for even having those thoughts.
We all bloody love our jobs, but we’ve been running on ‘emergencies only’ with skeleton staff for over a year now and the community dogs didn’t get the message – there’s a revolving door of injured animals and we just can’t keep up.
Our kennels are full. We’re using all our pop-ups. Every day we have to turn away poorly dogs because they’re just not poorly enough (!). We’re turning way cases that would be classed as serious emergencies in the UK, because they’re just not serious enough to make the cut here. We can’t take in a dog with a TVT when we only have one spot free and know we already have a dog with a huge knife wound waiting for us. We have a long waiting list of dogs in our area, ready to fill any empty kennels, and the dogs just keep coming. Puppies are being dumped on us every week.
We’ve been struggling by with only two vets for a long time now and it’s just not sustainable. A year ago we thought everything would be back to normal ‘in a few months’ and yet here we are, no closer to being able to operate like we used to. We’re all desperate for a break but we can’t go anywhere until we have new staff to relieve us. And they don’t seem to be coming any time soon. People often don’t take us seriously as a job offer (do other NGOs get this?) and drop out at the last minute, not realising how much we were relying on them coming.
There’s honestly a new hurdle every day. Sometimes we laugh about it, sometimes we cry.
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