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PETA’s Global Compassion Fund is helping animals around the world by sponsoring vital rescue work, spay/neuter programs, innovative outreach, and educational campaigns.

September 29, 2023

How a Dog Named Victory Escaped Defeat in Ukraine—and More!

Victory trudges through the barren streets of a ghost town in Ukraine, desperate for help. Painfully thin, the dog can barely be held up by her gaunt body, and her hair is coming out in clumps. She finds a dirty mattress in a forgotten building and collapses. It has been months since villagers—in a mad dash to escape falling bombs—left her behind.

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Your support of PETA’s Global Compassion Fund helps rescuers respond to animal emergencies at a moment’s notice.


ARK rescuing dog in flooding in Ukraine© Animal Rescue Kharkiv

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.

PETA staffer and woman with her dog at Cancun spay-a-thon

Watch daring rescues and see how PETA-supported teams are bringing hope and progress to those most in need.


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PETA’s Global Compassion Fund is supported exclusively by the contributions of kind individuals like you. Your gift is helping PETA entities and partners create positive, sustainable change in corners of the Earth where animals desperately need assistance—and may have no other hope.

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