ZERO STRAY PAWJECT

Zero Stray Pawject educates, designs and executes programs in collaboration with local governments that sustainably reduce the number of stray and homeless pets and improve animal welfare, public safety, public health and local economies.

Zero Stray Pawject is a small and growing NGO registered as a 501(c)3 US non-profit and German e.V. non-profit organization, providing tax benefits to donors in both countries. ZSP consists of a team with expertise in public health, law, animal welfare and business management and management consulting across three continents based in the U.S., Germany, and Greece. ZSP works closely with municipalities, its mayors and directors of public health, police forces, local veterinarians, and schoolmasters and designing and executing public policy programs that reduce the "production" of stray dogs and at the same time drive societal change that is long term orientated. We ensure to have clear KPIs in place to measure success.

Nobody on the Zero Stray Pawject leadership team receives any type of compensation and everybody works as a volunteer, dedicating their free time to a good cause.

Silja schiller-moumtzidis, ceo, and theo moumtzidis, CFO - founders

We adopted our dog "Caprice" during our wedding week.  Caprice had been a stray on the island of Mykonos.  This experience further opened our eyes to the struggle of many fosters, shelters, and other animal lovers who are trying against all odds to provide care for stray dogs.  We are business professionals with a combined over 50 years of business experiences in public health, the pharmaceutical industry, banking, management consulting and the pet care industry, and decided to develop what we believe could become a systematic end-to-end solution to the stray problem in communities where it is applied.

We founded Zero Stray Pawject in February 2016.

We founded Zero Stray Academy in 2021 to scale our successful municipal models across Greece and expand to cats.

We have been since focused on Greece.

sofia tzoniki, secretary general greece

Sofia joined Zero Stray Pawject in early 2020 in the position of Secretary-General of Zero Stray Pawject in Greece.

Sofia has a 25 years track record, working for the protection of animals across Greece. From 2008 to 2019 she was the Secretary-General of the Panhellenic Animal Welfare Federation PFO. She is also the president of the Stray Animal Care & Protection Association, Stray.gr.

Sofia works on the ground in Greece on certain responsibilities to drive forward our program to achieve zero stray dogs across Greece.