Happy Paw is a Ukrainian charitable foundation founded in 2012. All this time, we have been developing the charity culture and working to ensure that every stray animal has a home and every person treats animals responsibly!
As of January 2023, the Foundation cooperates with more than 140 shelters throughout Ukraine, which keep more than 19,000 dogs and 12,000 cats.
Happy Paw has 5 main projects and areas of work:
1.One-time assistance to animals in shelters (purchasing and providing foods, medicine for treating seriously ill animals, caring after the animals and improving life conditions of the animals in shelters)
2.Personal distance guardianship over the animals in shelters
3.Finding home for (adoption of) stray animals
4.Bioethics Educational Project – interactive lessons, events and classes for children dedicated to humane treatment of animals
5.Sterilizing stray animals.
The Foundation cooperates with officially registered animal protection organizations (charity foundations, non-governmental organizations, etc.) that take care of more than 40 animals in their locality or region. The Foundation helps only stay cats and dogs.
The Foundation acts independently in choosing shelters to provide aid to by assessing its financial capabilities and the team’s resources.
Aid to shelters is provided exclusively in the form of goods or payment for services. The Foundation does not provide funds (transfer to a personal card) directly.
The Foundation begins its cooperation with a new shelter with the One-Time Assistance Project. The Project provides for assistance once every 3 months.
Happy Paw Charitable Foundation DOES NOT PROVIDE aid to:
— pet owners (except for preferential pet sterilization programs for retired owners or low-income groups of the population)
— profitable organizations (veterinary clinics, utility companies, kennels, pet hotels, etc.)
— charitable organizations that cover a wide spectrum of work (i.e. besides animals, they provide aid, including humanitarian aid, to children, military personnel, doctors, IDPs, the poor, etc.).
Any shelter that is a legal organization can apply to the Foundation for assistance. To do this, it is necessary to:
1.Provide information on the number of animals cared for by the shelter and send recent videos and photos that show the conditions of keeping and number of the animals (to see an example, please click here)
2.Provide copies of the statutory documents of your organization:
— Charter of the organization (photo or copy of all pages of the signed version of the original document);
— Extract from the State Register;
— Resolution on non-profitability;
— Certificate of opening a bank account (the account of the organization, not an individual)
3. Fill in the application following the link below and indicate the need for aid clearly — https://forms.gle/c2wuAEHsc2aUFD659
Please note! Filling in the application does not guarantee providing assistance, the Foundation reserves the right to choose the organizations to cooperate with as well as to adjust the volume of aid according to the financial resources available in the organization.
4. Employees of the Foundation will process the data provided by the shelter and, in the event of a positive response, will contact the person from the shelter within 5 working days.
5. In the event of getting a positive response, please:
— sign the Cooperation Agreement with the Foundation;
— if required, find a supplier of goods or services in your locality, provide the estimate or plan of works.
6. Having received the aid, the shelter must:
— timely (within 5 days) provide high-quality photo and video reports of the aid received (you can see an example of reports here)
— make a reporting publication in social networks with the tag of the Foundation’s pages (within 7 days) and, if required, the tag of the project partner
(please find the specifications on how to tag the Foundation’s page in Facebook here, in Instagram here)
— each time after receiving the aid, sign and send (within 7 days after receiving the document from the Foundation) the Aid Provision Deed.
1.You can contact an officially registered animal protection organization in your region (please see the website of the Foundation in the Keepers section) and together submit a request for getting aid from the Foundation. The animal protection organization has the right to decide whether to support your request or not, the Foundation cannot influence the decisions of such organizations. You can also apply to other charitable foundations that help animals.
2.If you take care of more than 40 animals that are on private territory (not a paid stay), the Foundation can consider your request for help with feed, veterinary drugs or treating of the animals.
To do this, please:
— Provide information on the number of animals in your care and a recent video and photo showing the conditions of keeping and the number of your animals.
—Fill in the application following the link below and indicate the need for aid clearly — https://forms.gle/c2wuAEHsc2aUFD659
Please note! Filling in the application does not guarantee providing assistance, the Foundation reserves the right to choose whether to cooperate with shelters/volunteers or not as well as the right to adjust the volume of aid.
— Provide copies of passport (pages 1-2, page with registered address) and identification code.
Employees of the Foundation will process the provided information and, upon a positive response, will contact the person specified in the application within 5 working days.
In the event of receiving a positive response, the shelter (authorized person)/ volunteer must:
— Sign the Cooperation Agency Agreement with the Foundation;
— Timely (within 5 days) provide high-quality photo and video reports of the aid received (you can see an example here)
— Make a reporting publication in social networks with the tag of the Foundation’s pages (within 7 days) and, if required, the tag of the project partner
— Each time after receiving the aid, sign and send (within 7 days after receiving the document from the Foundation) the Aid Provision Deed.
The Foundation’s website is an effective free online platform for placing information about animals looking for owners. Therefore, you can post the information about animals you would like to be accommodated on the Foundation’s website in Adoption section. Please see the video with specifications of how to do this.
What should you do if you find an animal on the street, please read here: https://happypaw.ua/ua/news/one/513
Happy Paw is the All-Ukrainian charity foundation for helping stray animals, which does not have its own shelter or premises where animals can be kept.
— Sterilization is made by signing a contract with a local clinic or veterinarian.
— Payment for the sterilization services is made by non-cash settlement upon completion of work (after deeds are signed and photos of animals are taken).
— Catching, transporting or keeping animals is arranged by the local animal protection organization or volunteers.
— The Foundation finances sterilization operations only. Housing, transportation, rent of premises or catching of animals is not paid.
Please note! The Foundation does not support a sterilization in settlements where sterilization programs subsidized by other funds or the local budget are operating. Besides, the shelter or volunteers are prohibited from raising funds for the sterilizations financed by the Foundation.
To be involved in the sterilization program from Happy Paw, you should:
1.Send a request to home4pet@happypaw.ua and indicate:
— Contact details (telephone number, name and pages in social networks) and a city or settlement where there are animals that need to be sterilized;
— Number of stray animals that need to be sterilized;
— Availability or absence of conditions for the animals to be sterilized (premises, living conditions, post-operative temporary housing of
— Availability or absence of a doctor or clinic ready to cooperate with the Foundation.
2. In the event of a positive response and availability of financial opportunities to start a sterilization program upon request, the Foundation’s Manager Natalia will contact the applicant.
The shelter or volunteer must:
1. Read and sign the Complete Version of Rules of Cooperation with the Foundation under the Sterilization Program.
2. Share information about the start of the Sterilization Program in social networks (mentioning the Foundation) and regularly publish reporting materials about the project status.
3. Provide photos of the animals that have been operated. The reporting photos should be sent to the Project Manager after each sterilization.
An animal protection organization (shelter) that has entered into Cooperation Agreement can cooperate with the Foundation and take part in the Treatment Project.
The Foundation covers 100% of the payment for the treatment of a seriously ill stray animal in a veterinary clinic. The Foundation does not cover any debts in the clinic for the previous treatments of animals.
The Foundation independently decides on the number of animals that can be included in the Project taking into account its own financial possibilities.
To take part in the Project, the representative of the animal organization (shelter) must:
1.Independently find a clinic that can officially cooperate with the Foundation with non-cash settlements upon completion of work
2.Contact the Foundation’s Manager to agree on the participation in the Seriously Ill Animals Treatment Project by calling +380672183265 (Yevhenia)
3.Publish information about the animal on the Foundation’s website in the Accommodation section (please see the specifications here)
4.Write an email requesting the aid in treating the animal
5.Make a publication about cooperation with the Foundation telling about the treatment of this animal. Please indicate that the shelter does not raise money for the treatment of the animal, the Foundation covers all the payment. You should also add a link to the animal’s profile on the Foundation’s website
6.Regularly provide the Project Manager with information about the course of the animal’s illness (please attach the relevant documents from the clinic)
7.At the end of the treatment, write a publication report informing about the condition of the animal
Please note! The shelter is prohibited from raising funds for the treatment of an ill animal that is under the financial supervision of the Foundation. A volunteer or representative of the shelter is obliged to control the process of treatment and condition of the animal.
Shelters that have been cooperating with the Foundation for a long time (more than 6 months) can participate in the Guardianship Project. According to this Project, the Foundation is looking for guardians for the animals from the shelter that participates in the Guardianship Project and for the animals that are included in the appropriate section on the Foundation’s website. The guardians transfer funds to the Foundation every month to provide welfare for these animals. With the funds raised from the Project, the Foundation buys food and necessary medicines for the animals under care every month.
To participate in the Guardianship Project, the shelter must meet the following requirements:
1.Cooperate with the Foundation on the Accommodation Project, One-Time Assistance Project for at least 6 months and meet all the requirements of these Projects.
2. Send an official email to home4pet.kiev@happypaw.ua requesting to involve the shelter into the Guardianship Project.
3. Read the Complete Version of Rules of Participation in the Project.
4. Independently publish information about the animals living in the shelter on the Foundation’s website in the Accommodation section as well as provide the Managers with the animals’ ID (please see specifications here).
5. Regularly provide the Foundation with up-to-date photos/videos of all animals that are under care and make monthly publications about the aid received under the Project.
6. After receiving the monthly aid, the shelter shall sign deeds of aid and send them to the Foundation.
Please note! According to the conditions of the Guardianship Project, an animal participating in it can have only one guardian. The shelter cannot start any fundraising for the animal that is under the care of the Foundation. If the shelter does not meet the conditions of the Guardianship Project, the Foundation reserves the right to unilaterally terminate cooperation with the shelter on this Project.
The team of Happy Paw Foundation would like to support and help all stray animals in Ukraine. However, unfortunately, the financial and human resources of the Foundation are insufficient for this ambitious goal. We will continue to work to improve the living conditions of animals in shelters and change the crisis situation with stray animals throughout the country.
We are thankful for trusting us and accepting our values and cooperation conditions!