Muhammad Ali Latifi - Tunisia

Caught on the table in his small room, which he converted into a workshop, Ahmed Al-Mannai, 24, polishes plastic and tries to create a two-wheeled cart on the size of a small cat suffering from a disability and physical deficiency due to an accident, to help him walk and give him another chance to live.

Ahmed, who is from the popular Kabariya district in the center of Tunis, did not study veterinary medicine and never engaged in animal welfare societies, but his innocent spirit led him to engage in human activity when a cat suffered multiple injuries and decided to help her instead of watching her moan alone until death.

Wide fame
After many attempts, Ahmad was able to make an artificial leg from a plastic cane, enabling a weak, broken leg to recover the ability to walk, thereby giving her a new active life, within a story similar to his first success story that was later followed by other rescue operations with many cats and dogs.

Ahmed says with a broad smile to Al Jazeera Net, that his work is a producer of 3D animated satirical films broadcast on his YouTube channel that enabled him to introduce his new innovation to help animals walk, and many people called him to help animals that were subjected to various accidents.

Ahmad Al-Mannai began his activity in helping animals by installing an artificial stalk for a stork (Al-Jazeera)

Ahmed's experience in helping animals began installing an artificial leg of a anxiety bird that was raising one of his female relatives on her farm, after he had suffered a broken leg and lost the ability to walk.

Ahmed assures Al-Jazeera Net that some of the animals that help her are sometimes killed due to the lack of necessary care and veterinary neglect, and he says that stray dogs and cats in the streets are exposed to sniping by the municipal authorities and then their escape from death increases the size of their disabilities, stressing that this phenomenon is still In spite of complaints from animal organizations.

Multiple talents
Ahmed was passionate about making robots and cartoon movies from an early age and made him a multi-talented personality with wide fame and gave him the opportunity to discuss the innovations of new graduates, although he did not receive university education.

Ahmed told Al Jazeera Net that his early failure to study did not prevent him from innovation, noting that his initiative is a message aimed at promoting human behavior in order to protect animals and reduce violations faced by municipal authorities.

Veterinary negligence showing the lives of many animals to death (Al Jazeera)

Ahmed believes that his innovations provide an alternative to the supplies for animals that are not on the Tunisian market, and said that their costs are low, pointing out that these requirements are more in European markets that give priority to animal rights as close to human rights.

He adds that his initiative to find suitable designs for the affected animals did not see the light and did not receive the necessary encouragement, which made him think about interruption more than once, but the calls of some animal welfare societies and his wild desire to help the animals gave him confidence again to innovate in new ways.

Lack of encouragement
Ahmad's efforts remain in need of support, especially in light of the high rates of animal killing, which exposes her to permanent disabilities in the event of her survival despite the widespread approval and welcome he received on social media.

Activists and human rights defenders in Tunisia are calling on the municipal authorities to adopt compassionate methods to eliminate stray dogs, such as pollen, instead of killing them in cold blood during campaigns with live bullets, claiming that they pose a threat to people's lives.

A handicapped cat that Ahmed Al-Mannai helped walk through one of his innovations (Al-Jazeera)

Although Tunisian law punishes torturing animals with 15 days in prison and a fine of 4,500 dinars (about 1,600 dollars), these laws have not been implemented, while the rate of killing animals has increased.

Ahmed hopes to obtain support and encouragement from the state or societies interested in animal welfare to develop his initiative in a way comparable to European countries, to reduce animal disabilities and injuries.