In September, Happy Paw and Purina Ukraine launched the campaign "Kilograms of happiness with ONE" to support cats in shelters in Ukraine.
2 activities were held as part of the campaign.
In the first round, volunteers left in the comments the name of the shelter that needed help. According to the results of the tour, 30 shelters were selected, which were most mentioned in the comments on Happy Paw and Purina Ukraine social networks. These shelters received a three-month supply of food for their cats.
37,448 kg of Purina ONE brand feed were donated to shelters:
- Vsi Khvostyky, Kharkiv
- PetCare, Uzhgorod
- Noiv Kovcheg, Ternopil
- Help for paws, Snovsk, Chernihiv region
- Rukavychka, Kryvyi Rih
- "Step to Animals" veterinary sterilization center, Chernihiv
- Olena Myropolets shelter, Poltava
- Good heart, Kropyvnytskyi
- Cat house
- Animal Protection NGO "Happy Tails" in Drohobych
- 4 paws, Kherson
- Best Friends, Kyiv region
- Loyalty, Dnipro
- Gostomel shelter
- House of cats, Radomyshl
- Cat under the roof, Kharkiv
- Friend, Dnipro
- Friend, Cherkasy
- Shelter of Iryna Dobrolyubova
- Kotofei, Nikopol
- Ark, Odesa
- Dear Bezhatchenkos, Kremenchuk
- Manana, Kyiv region
- Kitsky House "Wet Noses", Poltava
- Pegasus, Dnipropetrovsk region
- Animal rescue Kharkiv
- Sirius, Kyiv region
- Step, Brody
- SOS, Kyiv
- Nezlamni, Kherson-Kyiv
In the second round, social network users left in the comments "kilograms of happiness" of which they are proud — the weight of their pet cats, and made a donation to help homeless cats if they wished, converting the kilograms into the amount of the donation.
At the end of the second part, the total weight of the cats was calculated — 11,996 kg, and that's how much food was given to 19 shelters and their 2,000 cats:
- Homeless World, Bila Tserkva
- Sirka House Ivano-Frankivsk
- Dog Life, Zaporizhia
- Give me a paw, Znamyanka
- Dvornyashkam house, Kyiv
- 9 lives, Kyiv
- Good territory, Druzhkivka
- Zoocity, Dobropillya
- Zoorai, Pokrov
- Zoo, Kamianske
- Zaporizhzhia Animal Protection Service
- Saved Paws, Kyiv
- Konstantinov Society for the Protection of Animals
- Zoodomoha, Oleksandria
- Lisovy, Ivano-Frankivsk region
- Friend's heart, Uman
- Where love lives, Dobropilla
- Klubochok, Mykolaiv
- Lapki, Mykolaiv region
The amount of donations amounted to 18,304 hryvnias. These funds were used to purchase sunbeds, bowls and trays to furnish a house for cats who have moved from Kostyantynivka.
Thank you to the partners and benefactors who participated, that together we can improve the lives of animals in shelters!
