History
PAWS was founded in 1954 by Muriel Jay, a British educator who was, at that time, residing in the Philippines. The organization’s first members were handpicked by Jay and Nita Hontiveros-Lichauco, the current president of PAWS, was one of them.
Hontiveros-Lichauco recalled that PAWS, as a new organization then, would make stuffed toys and other items which she and the other members would sell to gain funds. They also had a clinic where they provided services for injured animals and two bicycle patrols that they used to save stray animals from the streets.
However, PAWS became dormant when Jay went back to England. It was in 1986, when Hontiveros-Lichauco reorganized PAWS with a new team of professional volunteers which were primarily veterinarians and educators.
It was in 1996 when the present batch of PAWS’s members joined. The new volunteers, which were mostly the youth, came out with more aggressive ideas in promoting the advocacies of the organization. These ideas are still enacted by PAWS at present.
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