Our mission is to improve the living conditions of pets in Eastern Europe by providing: food, medical care, adoption.
U-Hearts is a non-profit public organization that works towards improvement of living conditions of abandoned pets in Eastern Europe. Due to the war, thousands of pets in Ukraine have been left without homes and proper care.
Almost 1660 tonnes of food has been successfully provided to pets in Ukraine since the start of the initiative, ‘Save Pets of Ukraine’. The network of aid recipients can reach over 262,000 pets. The foundation started its operation from purchasing pet food, and now it is working on promoting medical care in shelters. The first step has been taken — an anti-rabies vaccine for 1,000 pets has been purchased.
Ruslan Hrytsan
Strategy and Management NGO U-Hearts
Yurii Tokarskyi
Operations and Management U-Hearts Foundation
Iryna Lozova
Social Projects
Sofiia Tkachenko
Humanitarian aid
Kateryna Fokina
Shelter Patronage and Adoption
Ilona Luchynina
Logistics and Analytics
Anastasiia Ivanichenko
Veterinary field
Iryna Tereshchenko
Shelter Patronage and Partnerships
Anzhelika Babii
Communications U-Hearts Foundation
Valeriia Volyk
Communications U-Hearts NGO
Marharyta Tenetii
Design
Olena Feshchuk
SMM
Oleg Kamanin
Warehouse and Logistics
Vasyl Vlasyuk
Legal Advising
Founded in early 2022, U-Hearts was launched to reflect the increase in scale of Kormotech’s multi-year effort to improve pet life conditions in Ukraine and the wider region of Eastern Europe.
HEADQUARTERED IN VILNIUS, LITHUANIA, THE FOUNDATION OPERATES BY:
sourcing grants, donations and in-kind contributions from public and private donors to support an extensive network of partnering animal shelters;
designing and implementing programs to protect and rescue pets;
investing into education efforts to promote saving pet lives, raise awareness about proper pet care and proper sheltering of unwanted animals;
promoting pet relocation and adoption, as well as helping abandoned pets find their new families.
Our initiatives in recent years
2014
We rescued animals from the ATO zone – fighting in the East of the Ukraine.
2016
The classes of humane education were developed and implemented in secondary schools.
2017
A veterinary school was established.
2021
A veterinary care hotline for pet owners was established.
2022
The first program in Ukraine to support shelters and zoo volunteers was launched.
Our achievements
*Cats:
100 000+
*Dogs:
200 000+
Food (in tons)
2 450
***Pets in families:
3 350+
**Vaccines:
58 969
Vitamins:
16 133
Toys:
11 291
Warmed shelters:
69
* fed; ** transfer; ***in 2.5 years
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