The "Give a paw, friend" shelter, managed by Iryna Didur, has been in operation for 14 years.
But it all started long before that, when in front of Iryna's eyes, communal workers shot stray dogs right on the playground: "The first shelter was designed for 50 animals, then the animals became more and more, and I rented the territory near the Metro hypermarket and built my second shelter for 100 animals, after 3.5 years we moved to the center and even then we had 200 animals."
The most difficult thing in the work of the shelter is
A catastrophic lack of places and a constant lack of funds for development.
What motivates
Animal lives saved.
Monthly expenses of the shelter for keeping animals
Average static costs: 700,000 hryvnias per month.
This includes: Purchase of fodder — 350,000 hryvnias, medicine — 15,000 hryvnias, payment for treatment — 100,000 hryvnias, salary for employees — 70,000 hryvnias, repair work and construction of new enclosures — 104,000 hryvnias, fuel, hiring a taxi (the shelter does not have its own transport ) — 30,000 hryvnias, household needs — 10,000 hryvnias, utilities and rent — 17,000 hryvnias.
What does the shelter dream about
Guaranteed observance and protection of animal rights at the state level. Existence of animal protection lawyers and working legal procedures for impact on life eaters.
