The Netherlands-based Open Door Ukraine (ODU) Foundation was founded in 2019 to promote Ukraine’s development into a democratic and prosperous country and its integration into Europe. Since the Russian invasion in February 2022, we have multiplied our humanitarian and early recovery activities to help the affected Ukrainian population and repair the damage caused by the war.
Learn about our mission, ongoing projects that will put roofs over their heads again, and how you can embrace Ukraine’s most remarkable reconstruction effort. Together we can open the door to a free and hopeful future for Ukraine. Get involved and change the clock.
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This project uses a fast, sustainable construction style using Neopor SIP panels with high insulating capacity, made from EU certified materials
The team of the humanitarian table visited the “SOS” animal shelter near Kyiv. It is the first shelter for homeless animals in Ukraine. It has a unique history. Until 1997, the “Animal Disposal Workshop” functioned in its place for 60 years, in which hundreds of thousands of homeless animals were destructed.
In December 1996, German journalist Christa Schechtel, together with Tamara Tarnavska (now president of the Society for the Protection of Animals “SOS”), managed to shoot a documentary about the brutal murder of homeless animals caught from the streets of Kyiv in this workshop and to show it on television in Western Europe. The film shocked Western society with its cruelty.
Under pressure from well-known Western politicians, a wide circle of the public of Western Europe, the then leadership of the Kyiv City Administration was forced to close the “Animal Disposal Workshop” and transfer its territory to the Animal Protection Society “SOS” for free rent for a period of 49 years.
In a short time, the Society has done what the state had not been able to do for many years. Without receiving a penny from the city budget, relying only on donations from international animal welfare organizations in Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland and citizens of Western Europe, the Society built a real animal shelter on the site of the former tannery in Pirogiv, the FIRST in Ukraine, including a veterinary hospital and a hospital for sick and injured animals, and began to conduct a systematic animal sterilization campaign.
Today, there are about 1000 dogs and more than 200 cats in the shelter in Pyrohiv, and we continue to accept animals that are constantly brought from the war zone. In this regard, we feel a constant need for medicines, vaccines, feed and other things. We do not always remember that an animal is a living creature that feels pain and fear. We remember that a society that shows cruelty and indifference to animals will never be kind and merciful to people.
Dear friends! We appeal to those who are not indifferent to the fate of homeless and disenfranchised animals to join the animal protection movement in Ukraine and help ourshelter.
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