ARFSXM "Animals R Friends" is a non-profit organization whose mission is to make sure the Sint Maarten community becomes more involved in the well being of the SXM fauna through legalization, education, and by increasing awareness that Animals are friends and not property. When killing is not an option, you need No Kill Solutionscy. A NoKill community is one where all healthy and treatable animals, including feral cats, are saved.

"The greatness of a Nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" - GANDHI

Objectives :

1.1. Recognizing that humans do not currently include non-human animals (herein-after referred to as “animals”) within their sphere of legal, political or moral rights-holders, and recognizing further that because most humans do not generally respect animals for their inherent value, the Organization has as its primary objectives, to protect and further the well-being and health of the animals on ethical grounds with a view toward protecting human and animal and to carry out the following:

1.1.1. To update legislation by cooperating with governments, private organizations and the public and to campaign for abolition of the “property status” of animals, and the acknowledgement by individuals, corporations, institutions and the state that animals cannot be “owned”.

1.1.2 To improve enforcement of legislation by cooperating with governments, private organizations and the public by campaigning for animals to be treated with the respect to which, as individuals, they are entitled by virtue of possessing inherent value.

1.1.3 To educate the community that animals are friends via organization of lectures, workshops and other types of meetings and events and enhance the awareness and knowledge of the public concerning its objectives. And to educate the public with regard to the suffering that results from random and institutionalized abuse and exploitation of animals.

1.1.4 To promote the philosophy of animal rights and ethical conservation in order to show that animals, plants and other natural phenomena such as unspoiled wilderness areas, mountains, valleys, rivers, etc have an inherent value, which is independent of any value which humans attach to them.

1.1.5 To show that animals exist in their own right and are not, individually or collectively, whether wild or domesticated, a means to human ends.


2.0. Recognizing further that animals are suffering physically and emotionally as a result of the abuse and exploitation to which they are subjected, the Organization, in terms of its secondary objectives, undertakes to do all in its power to end this suffering by means of the following:

2.1.1 Maintaining a campaign encouraging humans to adopt cruelty-free lifestyle.

2.1.2 Rescuing animals from abusive situations whenever this is possible, and placing such animals with human individuals or organizations most capable of taking the best care of such animals.

2.1.3 Initiating projects and campaigns that will highlight specific types of animal abuse, exploitation and neglect and implement measures to end these.