PAWS (People & Animal Welfare Society) is a non-profit organisation promoting community welfare through Ahimsa (non-violence) and is largely staffed by volunteers.

Our Community Resource Centre

Our centre provides a one-stop shop for any true aspiring environmentalist with a café, cruelty free shop, organic market and raw food café (Saturdays) and seminar room. Our food distribution program (pay by donation) demonstrates the ability to help one living being with out exploiting another in the process. Read More

Emergency Accommodation

PAWS is currently working with the City of Perth to establish emergency accommodation within one of our current premises for people in the community who need support. This demonstrates that we can help one living entity without exploiting another in the process. PAWS will offer shelter, food and human kindness.

Peter Singer once wrote “if it is in our power to save someone’s life with little cost to our own lives, then we are morally obligated to do so, and not to do so is morally reprehensible”

Savings someone’s life is clearly dramatic; however, protecting persons from harm, assuring their rights and privileges, providing necessary resources are less dramatic and less clearly understood obligations.

Here at PAWS as part of our ‘non violent’ outreach program, we have opened our doors to all walks of life to demonstrate how one can live simply, so that others can simply live….

“Poverty is the worst form of violence”

- Mahatma Ghandi