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Humane Education
The Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada has always
supported a variety of humane education projects
organized by local or provincial humane societies.
This assistance varied from grants 'in aid' to
assistance in providing printed and audio visual
material.
The Foundation has supported educational projects
at Universities that have encouraged teaching
methods and techniques which offer an alternative
to the use of live animals.
For 20 years the Foundation has supported the
work of the Kindness Clubs of Canada, an educational
group for children.
In July 1972 it was decided to play an increasingly
important role in the field of humane education
by distributing teaching material and aids.
The Foundation has distributed various educational
journals, including publications from Humane Information
Services, the Institute for the Study of Animal
Problems, and Universities Federation for Animal
Welfare. In particular, the Foundation has
funded the publication of French language material
in Quebec.
The Foundation has consistently encouraged the
Minister of Education to recognize the importance
of humane education by including the subject,
either directly or indirectly, in all levels of
public school education.
Canada has a small population of wild horses.
The Foundation supported the production of a film
to publicize the need to provide protection for
these animals, as a humane educational project.
In 1983 the British Columbia Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals formed the British Columbia
Humane Education Society. The Foundation
has supported this new, and now successful, group
since its inception and continues to do so.
Perhaps one of the greatest needs in the animal
welfare field is a central library, where all
the materials published by both the humane movement
and other agencies (governments, magazines, colleges
and schools, special interest groups, etc.) can
be kept on file. Such a library could play
an important role in humane education. The
Foundation approached the University of Guelph
and, as a result, discussions are on-going which
may well lead to the establishment of the first
Animal Welfare Library in Canada.
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