Kyiv animal shelter ‘Kototyrbota’

Dear friends, colleagues and animal lovers!

If we haven’t met, my name is Olga Motorna and I am a Ukrainian doctor living and practicing in Melbourne. I have created this small fundraiser for the important work that my amazing cousin Alyona Motorna is doing in one of Kyiv’s animal shelters, currently overflowing with sick, injured, malnourished and simply abandoned animals (primarily cats). She has been a passionate volunteer at the shelter for many years and when it overflowed would frequently take in many animals into her small flat in Kyiv. Her strong sense of responsibility for the lives of the animals in her care was one of the primary reasons why she decided not to leave Kyiv when air raids started in February 2022.

Since the start of the war, the number of stray animals increased exponentially, many bearing silent witness to indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, some with fractured limbs and shrapnel wounds. Some animals, in particular those from Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel, have been brought in in appalling state of extreme starvation and dehydration. Unfortunately many have been abandoned by their families fleeing in the state of panic and despair.. At the same time, unsurprisingly, the number of people able to financially support the work of the shelter dwindled dramatically.

The shelter is in urgent need of essential supplies as well as money for veterinary care. Another ongoing project accruing costs is their sterilization program.

Every little bit can help the lives and welfare of these animals.

Please consider donating if you are able, and I fully back my cousin Alyona that the raised funds will go where they are needed the most.

You could follow Alyona on

https://www.facebook.com/alyona.motorna.9 https://www.facebook.com/kototyrbota

@kototyrbota

(kototyrbota translates as ‘caring for cats’)

Unfortunately the pages are in Ukrainian but can be easily translated with google, the photos speak for themselves however.