Throughout August, volunteers in various cities across Ukraine aim to visit as many official shelters as possible to find out if they allow animals. The UAnimals volunteer community conducts these checks in collaboration with the OZON Public Monitoring Group, a part of the Center for Civil Liberties that oversees the work of local authorities.
The OZON group’s volunteers are interested in the overall condition of the shelters, while UAnimals focuses primarily on whether animals are allowed. It should be noted that bringing animals into shelters is officially permitted by an order from the Minister of Internal Affairs, Ihor Klymenko, dated January 10 of this year. Both the OZON group and UAnimals will present their findings to local authorities and provide recommendations after the project.
So far, volunteers from both organizations have checked 25 shelters in Kyiv, Odesa, and Mykolaiv.
UAnimals invites volunteers to join the inspections in the following cities: Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Odesa, Irpin, Dnipro, Lutsk, Poltava, Uzhhorod, Kryvyi Rih, and Zaporizhzhia.
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