Ending Cruelty Begins With Compassion
PETA’s Global Compassion Fund is helping animals around the world by sponsoring vital rescue work, spay/neuter programs, innovative outreach, and educational campaigns.
July 11, 2025
Helping Petra’s Animals: Teaching Donkey Handlers How to Prevent Colic in Equines
Through educational outreach in Petra, Jordan, this PETA-backed clinic’s veterinarians are giving local handlers lessons that will build a kinder future.
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PETA’s Global Compassion Fund powers low-cost or free sterilization surgeries worldwide that stop companion animal homelessness before it starts.
It also fuels innovative educational and outreach programs that promote kindness in children and adults and inspires them to see animals as sensitive, complex individuals who are not so different from them.
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