Hi, ACE, Thank you so much for this AMA. I work on Animal rights in Pakistan. I practice animal law and teach animal law as well in Pakistan. I am representing three different organizations here and wanted to essentially pitch one project on behalf of each of them. 1. World Moot on International Law and Animal Rights: The WMILAR is the 1st world moot(Animal law competition working on bringing together the fragmented development of animal law from across the globe by conducting mooting competitions and moot training courses from experts. The moot problem which is the fictitious legal problem law students will argue on from across the world includes a problem on farm animal rights as well. This is a legal competition that aims to create animal law globally. Would this be a project ACE would consider covering? 2. Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants LLP Pakistan, EARC is Pakistan's 1st animal law firm. We are working on quite a few high-profile animal rights cases in the courts and developing policies. For farm animals, we are conducting some on-ground research so we can lay a map out of what the situation looks like in Pakistan. We also want to conduct education programs at the school level and I have built a curriculum for it.. We also want to provide free legal aid to animal rescuers in Pakistan. 3. Charity Doings Foundation Pakistan. We run Pakistan's 1st Disaster Zone Farm Animal Shelter and are looking for funding to sustain the project. We treat 400-600 farm animals every month and without a basic infrastructure, advocating for farm animals is incredibly hard. Would ACE consider covering any of these initiatives? I know 2 of these are legal initiatives and the last one is welfare but they have a farm animal angle and I wanted some advice on how to put forth a better application because this will help us create a proper animal rights movement in Pakistan. Most of our work so far, for the last few years has been completely pro-bono as we haven't been able to get grants. To make these initiatives more sustainable, I feel the ACE grant would be monumental. Do we have any chance? Kindly, Altamush Saeed
Hi, ACE, Thank you so much for this AMA. I work on Animal rights in Pakistan. I practice animal law and teach animal law as well in Pakistan. I am representing three different organizations here and wanted to essentially pitch one project on behalf of each of them. 1. World Moot on International Law and Animal Rights: The WMILAR is the 1st world moot(Animal law competition working on bringing together the fragmented development of animal law from across the globe by conducting mooting competitions and moot training courses from experts. The moot problem which is the fictitious legal problem law students will argue on from across the world includes a problem on farm animal rights as well. This is a legal competition that aims to create animal law globally. Would this be a project ACE would consider covering? 2. Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants LLP Pakistan, EARC is Pakistan's 1st animal law firm. We are working on quite a few high-profile animal rights cases in the courts and developing policies. For farm animals, we are conducting some on-ground research so we can lay a map out of what the situation looks like in Pakistan. We also want to conduct education programs at the school level and I have built a curriculum for it.. We also want to provide free legal aid to animal rescuers in Pakistan. 3. Charity Doings Foundation Pakistan. We run Pakistan's 1st Disaster Zone Farm Animal Shelter and are looking for funding to sustain the project. We treat 400-600 farm animals every month and without a basic infrastructure, advocating for farm animals is incredibly hard. Would ACE consider covering any of these initiatives? I know 2 of these are legal initiatives and the last one is welfare but they have a farm animal angle and I wanted some advice on how to put forth a better application because this will help us create a proper animal rights movement in Pakistan. Most of our work so far, for the last few years has been completely pro-bono as we haven't been able to get grants. To make these initiatives more sustainable, I feel the ACE grant would be monumental. Do we have any chance? Kindly, Altamush Saeed