Keep Animals Warm: A Fundraiser for Equipment and Heating Supplies for 10 Shelters

In winter, freezing temperatures pose yet another challenge for shelters operating in wartime conditions. Volunteers treat, feed, and care for hundreds of cats and dogs. But the cold, power outages, and shelling make life in shelters particularly difficult.

The lack of heat directly threatens animals’ lives, so shelters cannot cope without heating, insulation, consumables, and kennels.

To help shelters survive the winter, we have launched a fundraiser for UAH 621,056 (≈$14,313). With this money, we will buy:

• generators for backup power;
• ceramic heaters for indoor spaces;
• gas cylinders and a field kitchen for preparing hot meals;
• houses for animals, especially small dogs;
• thermal containers for storing hot food and water;
• thermal blankets for animals;
• containers for storing drinking water;
• bedding (hay, straw, wood shavings) for insulating kennels and enclosures.

10 shelters will receive assistance, including: Zaporizhzhia Sluzhba Zakhystu Tvaryn Shans (Zaporizhzhia), Kitskin Dim (Zaporizhzhia), Wake Up Your Heart (Zaporizhzhia), Nikopol Animal Shelter Chance of Life (Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region), Dream in the Palms (Verbove, Dnipropetrovsk region), House of Rescued Animals Feya (Kryvyi Rih), Rukavychka-KR (Kryvyi Rih), Helga’s Fluffy Friends (Kryvyi Rih), Animal SOS Odesa (Odesa), Zoorai (Pokrov, Dnipropetrovsk region).

Let’s help more than 2,990 animals survive this harsh cold winter. Thanks to insulation and heating, shelters will become safer and more comfortable — there will be less risk of hypothermia, disease, and stress for the animals in their care.

Share your warmth with those who cannot ask for it, donate any amount you can ❄️