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Sponsor a Sterilization — ARTEMIS

Sponsor a Sterilization

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This is not a donation. It is a sponsorship — a specific, single, documented medical intervention for a named animal in a real colony in Greece. You will know exactly what happened to your €49. Because we show you.

→ Sponsor One Sterilization — €49

🔒 Secure payment · Certificate included · Vet-documented

What happens after you click

Four things. In this exact order.

You pay €49

Secure payment via Stripe. €35 is transferred directly to our NGO partner within 7 days to cover the veterinary cost. €14 funds the platform, mapping, and documentation that makes the whole system work.

You receive your certificate

Within 24 hours, a named sponsorship certificate arrives in your inbox — a beautiful, printable PDF with the colony name, your name and the coordinates of the animal’s location.

The sterilization happens

Our NGO partner performs the surgery with a licensed vet. The animal is ear-tipped for permanent identification. A vet certificate is issued. Within 60 days, you receive a documentation photo as proof.

You get a colony update

At the six-month mark, you receive a full update on the colony — population count, health status, any new sterilizations. Your €49 keeps working long after the surgery is done.

The Case for Sponsoring

This is the closest thing to a guaranteed outcome in animal welfare.

Most people who care about Mediterranean stray animals have donated before. And most of them have the same feeling afterward: vague goodwill, zero visibility, and a nagging doubt that nothing really changed.

This is different. Not because we say so — because the mathematics of TNR are publicly documented and peer-reviewed. One sterilization prevents approximately 100 lives of suffering over seven years. That number does not depend on hope. It depends on biology.

A sterilized female cat does not stop living. She continues to hold her territory — which prevents new, unsterilized animals from moving in. She simply stops reproducing. The colony ages. It shrinks. Over three to five years, a managed colony reduces visibly, permanently, humanely.

You are not funding someone’s hope. You are funding a verifiable, documented, permanent intervention. The vet certificate is the proof. The follow-up photo is the proof. The colony update is the proof. We keep none of it to ourselves.

Why “sponsorship” and not “donation”

Language matters. A donation is money you give and let go. A sponsorship is something you own — a specific intervention, a named animal, a documented outcome. The psychological difference is not trivial: sponsors feel pride, not guilt. They come back. They tell people.

We use the word “sponsorship” deliberately because that is what this is. Your €49 funds one specific surgery, in one specific colony, for one specific animal. You receive proof it happened. That is a sponsorship. We will never call it otherwise.

The honest number

You may have seen the figure of 370,000 descendants from one unsterilized cat. That number has been debunked — the peer-reviewed figure, accounting for kitten mortality, is closer to 100. We use the correct number because your trust is the foundation of everything we do. We prefer an uncomfortable truth to a convenient exaggeration.

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For €49, you permanently remove hundreds of future animals from a life of suffering on the street. That is not a small thing. That is an extraordinary thing.

— Artemis Association for Animals

The Active Colony

Where your €49 goes today.

Active Colony · Chania Prefecture, Crete, Greece

Lefka Ori

Managed by: Cats of Lefka Ori · Active since 2023

Lefka Ori is located in Western Crete, in the Chania prefecture. It is home to dozens of stray cats — unseen by tourists, unfunded by municipalities, managed entirely by volunteers Mary & Martin, who have been running TNR operations here since 2023.

Every sterilization performed through Artemis is documented with a vet certificate and reported back to you directly. The colony is GPS-mapped. The animals are real. The proof is yours.

Meet two of its residents

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Grace

Awaiting sponsorship

Grace arrived alongside her brother Pikachu in May 2024 — small, fragile, and immediately affectionate with every human who came near. She is ready for sterilization. Your €49 could be the one that funds hers.

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Pikachu

Awaiting sponsorship

His flat face and small nose make him unmistakable. Born the same week as Grace, Pikachu has been a fixture of the colony ever since. Mary & Martin have long hoped to find a sponsor for this unique little cat.

→ Sponsor Their Sterilization — €49

Sterilizations funded

Each documented with a vet certificate and photographic evidence.

Colony monitored

GPS-mapped. Monthly updates from a named NGO contact.

Days to vet documentation

≤60

From the moment you sponsor, your proof arrives within 60 days.

Full Transparency

Exactly where your €49 goes.

You pay

One sponsorship unit. Processed securely via Stripe.

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Goes to the vet

€35

Transferred directly to the NGO partner within 7 days of your payment. Covers the veterinary sterilization cost.

Funds the platform

€14

Colony mapping, GPS tracking, certificates, sponsor communications, documentation, and ongoing platform operations.

We publish this split on every page of this website because you deserve to know exactly what your money does. The NGOs we work with receive sterilization funding they would not otherwise have. You receive documented proof that it happened. We receive the margin that keeps this infrastructure running. Nobody is hiding anything — because transparency is our entire competitive advantage over vague NGOs where no one knows where the money goes.

Common Questions

Everything you might want to know before clicking.

Is this tax-deductible?

Tax deductibility depends on your country of residence and local laws. We recommend checking with your national tax authority. We can provide a detailed invoice and certificate for your records upon request.

How do I know the sterilization actually happened?

Within 60 days of your sponsorship, you receive a vet-certified documentation photo of the sterilized animal. The vet certificate is issued per procedure by a licensed Greek veterinarian. We forward this documentation to you directly — unedited.

Can I choose which animal I sponsor?

At this stage, sterilizations are assigned to animals in order of veterinary priority within the active colony. As we grow and add more colonies, we will offer the option to select a specific colony or named animal. For now, your sponsorship funds the next animal in the queue.

What is ear-tipping and is it humane?

Ear-tipping is the removal of approximately 1cm from the tip of one ear, performed under general anaesthesia during the sterilization procedure. It is completely painless, universally used as the standard identification marker for feral cats in TNR programs, and prevents animals from being needlessly re-trapped.

Why Greece specifically?

Greece has one of the highest stray animal populations in Europe — estimated at 2 to 3 million — combined with minimal public funding for TNR programs. The gap between the scale of the crisis and the resources available to address it is larger here than almost anywhere else in the Mediterranean.

Can I sponsor more than one sterilization?

Absolutely. Each sponsorship funds one complete procedure. If you’d like to fund five, ten, or fifty sterilizations, you can complete the payment process multiple times or contact us directly to arrange a batch sponsorship with consolidated documentation.

Who are the NGO partners?

We partner exclusively with vetted, active TNR organizations with a licensed veterinarian in place. Our current partner is Cats of Lefka Ori, operating in the Chania prefecture of Crete since 2023. Full partner details are available on our NGO Partners page.

What if I have a problem with my payment or certificate?

Contact us at contact@assoartemis.org and we will respond within 48 hours. Every sponsorship is logged manually and we resolve every issue personally — there is no automated support queue here.

The cats don’t care where
the money comes from.
They care that the vet shows up.

One animal. One surgery. Hundreds of future lives prevented. That is what your €49 does — and we will show you every step of it.

→ Sponsor One Sterilization — €49 If this makes sense to you, click above. If it doesn’t, share this page with one person who might.