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View this in your browser Small but Mighty: This Giving Tuesday, Your Compassion Can Carry the World Dear friends, This year, your kindness reached animals in places where hope was fading fast. From Serbia’s icy fields to Morocco’s overcrowded shelters, from South Africa’s struggling donkeys to the chaos in Haiti, from Tanzania’s wounded strays to the wildfire devastation in Los Angeles — your love travelled across continents and saved lives that would otherwise have been lost. Animals First Aid is still a small organisation, but what we have achieved together is extraordinary. Every dog fed, every cat healed, every donkey rescued, every emergency answered was made possible because you showed up, again and again. As Giving Tuesday arrives, we face another moment where your generosity can decide whether hundreds of animals survive the winter, receive surgery, stay sheltered, and feel safe. This is your moment to lift them. Your moment to shape their next chapter. Your moment to show that compassion, even from a small team, can change the world. Kindly donate today! Serbia — Where Abandonment Meets Your Love This year in Serbia, countless dogs and cats were found starving, freezing, or injured. Through Paws of Smederevo, Vera Vita and Jelena’s Sanctuary, your support delivered food, medicine and emergency care when no one else could help. You helped save Teddy, the gentle dog whose hind legs and tail had been severed in an act of unimaginable cruelty. You paid for surgeries, treated blind kittens, rescued abandoned puppies and brought warmth to animals trembling alone in fields and abandoned yards. Serbia’s forgotten animals survived because your compassion refused to give up on them. Kindly donate today! Morocco — Healing the Most Fragile Lives Luc, Morocco brought some of the most heartbreaking cases we faced. A kitten beaten until seizures shook his tiny body. A mother cat with a massive tumor dragging herself through the dust. A paralyzed cat whose wounds crawled with worms. More than 150 fragile cats at You Can Save Me Shelter fighting for survival each month. Your support kept the shelter’s doors open when rent and staff wages threatened closure. You funded medicine when shelves were bare. You brought hope to dogs and cats from Agadir to Tangier suffering from TVT, broken limbs, infections and burns. Because of you, animals who once knew only fear now have safety. Kindly donate today! South Africa — Pain, Poverty and the Animals Caught in Between In South Africa, animals suffered quietly in impoverished communities. Luc. Donkeys collapsed from exhaustion. Dogs scavenged for food. Cats endured unspeakable cruelty. Your compassion helped Percy the donkey after a blow above his eye nearly took his sight. You supported Lanseria Ferals, Soshanguve Shelter and Blindlove who love their animals but cannot afford food or vet care. You brought dignity, warmth and medical treatment to animals who had nobody but you. Kindly donate today! Tanzania — Two Lifelines, One Mission to Save the Forgotten In Tanzania, the suffering is quiet but immense. Working donkeys collapse under impossible loads, their spines rubbed raw by harnesses made of wire and rope. Street dogs limp through dusty markets searching for scraps, their injuries untreated and their cries unheard. But this year, through TAWESO and TAHUCHA, your compassion reached the animals most people walk past. Through TAWESO, you helped save dogs like Mori — found skeletal, dehydrated and moments from death. Today, he is healthy, vaccinated and safe because you chose to step in. Your support provided medicine, surgeries and food to hundreds of injured and abandoned animals who had no one else fighting for them. And through TAHUCHA, you extended that lifeline even further into rural communities where donkeys and dogs endure some of the harshest conditions. From emergency treatments to rescues of overworked animals, TAHUCHA’s work became possible only because people like you believed that every life deserves compassion. When they faced rising cases and overwhelming need, you were the helping hand that kept them going. Because of your generosity, Tanzania’s forgotten animals — the working donkeys, the starving puppies, the wounded strays — were not left to suffer in silence. You gave them dignity, relief and a chance to heal. Kindly donate today! India — Two Women, Hundreds of Lives, and the Hope You Make Possible Luc, in India, the suffering is overwhelming. Millions of stray dogs and cats roam the streets, sick, starving and often ignored. But this year, your compassion supported not just one, but two extraordinary women fighting for these forgotten animals. In Kolkata, Susmita continues to care for more than five hundred strays, treating the wounded, feeding the starving, and answering desperate cries at all hours. Thanks to your support, our Medicine Bank has become her lifeline — a shelf that is never allowed to go empty, ensuring no bleeding dog or poisoned cat is ever turned away. And now, another brave heart has joined this mission. Her name is Simran, a young woman from Chandigarh whose journey began when she rescued one injured puppy and simply could not stop. Today, despite personal hardship and long working hours, she feeds and cares for over fifty to sixty dogs every single day. She goes without so they can eat. She dreams of devoting her life fully to animal rescue — and with your help, that dream is within reach. Because of you, both Susmita and Simran can keep saying yes to the animals no one else sees. Together, they are building a kinder India, one rescued soul at a time — and your compassion lights their path. Kindly donate today! Tunisia — A Sanctuary of Hope for the Disabled and Abandoned In Tunisia, where animals have no legal protection and cruelty is often met with silence, your compassion helped us reach those who suffer the most. Earlier this year, you stood with Virginie in Mahdia, helping her care for hundreds of desperate animals. Today, your kindness has allowed us to expand this lifeline even further through a remarkable new partner: L’Arca di Noé – Hope Shelter, founded by the extraordinary Maria Stella Tabascio Fricano. Stella’s journey began decades ago when she witnessed the brutal treatment of strays in Tunisia and refused to turn away. After years of trying to work with municipalities and navigating political instability, she opened a sanctuary of her own — a place where disabled, abandoned and mistreated animals could finally be safe. Today, more than eighty-five dogs and over thirty cats, many paralyzed, blind or gravely ill, live under her protection. L’Arca di Noé is a rare refuge in a country where animals are routinely poisoned, beaten or shot. Stella rescues those left behind — the disabled dogs dragging their legs through the dust, the blind animals shivering in fear, the sick and starving souls the world has given up on. She nurses them back to health, gives them dignity and fights to find them loving homes in Europe and beyond. But the challenges are immense. The shelter urgently needs food, medicine, winter blankets and improvements to keep disabled dogs comfortable and safe. Diseases like leishmaniasis spread quickly, and every day brings new animals in crisis. Because of your support, this sanctuary of hope can continue its life-saving work. You make it possible for Tunisia’s most vulnerable animals — the ones society has discarded — to find safety, healing and love. Kindly donate today! Bosnia & Herzegovina — The Unseen Survivors Luc, your support reached dogs in Bosnia suffering in silence — starved, injured, abandoned in forests or left on roadsides. You made sure food and emergency care reached animals who would have died unnoticed. Kindly donate today! Haiti — A Country in Collapse, and Animals Clinging to Life Luc, Haiti faced one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world this year, and animals suffered alongside people. At Marylin’s Sanctuary, gangs blocked access to food and medicine. Veterinary care vanished. Dogs and cats starved behind barricades. When Marylin called for help, you answered. Your emergency support kept animals alive when everything around them was falling apart. You gave them a chance in a place where hope had nearly disappeared. Kindly donate today! United States — The LA Wildfires and the Animals Running From Flames When the Eaton Fire and surrounding LA wildfires destroyed homes and habitats, animals fled through burning smoke. Pasadena Humane sheltered more than three hundred animals, many with burns, smoke inhalation and trauma. Their letter to Animals First Aid said it all: “Because of your compassion, we are able to give them the second chances they deserve.” Your support helped fund emergency care, reunite pets with families and protect wildlife in crisis. In the middle of a disaster, you were the calm and kindness they needed. Kindly donate today! Thank you,  Luc Your Compassion Made All of This Possible — And So Much More This year, your kindness reached animals in Serbia, Morocco, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, India, Bosnia, Haiti and the United States. For a small organisation, this global impact is extraordinary. But as we enter winter, countless animals are still hungry, still sick, still abandoned and still waiting for someone to save them. Giving Tuesday is our moment to rise together — to grow bigger, act faster and reach further. Every donation you give becomes a heartbeat of hope for an animal who has nothing. A bowl of food. A life-saving surgery. A warm bed. A safe shelter. A second chance. This Giving Tuesday, please help us continue this mission. Help us save more. Help us reach more. Help us bring compassion to the places where it is needed most. Kindly donate today! We cannot do this without you. Thank you for believing in this work. Thank you for standing with us. And thank you for being the reason animals across continents found safety, healing and love this year. By donating this cause you will be helping   “All our Partnering Shelters across the globe” Phone (US): +1 773 300 2544 Animals First Aid (AFA) is a dedicated nonprofit organization committed to saving and improving the lives of animals in urgent need. Through compassionate partnerships and global collaboration, we provide immediate care, shelter, and long-term solutions for abused, abandoned, and neglected animals. Every donation directly supports life-changing interventions, ensuring animals receive the love, safety, and healing they deserve. Animals First Aid is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States (EIN: 99-1042428), and donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. Together, we can continue making a difference, one precious life at a time. Copyright (C) 2025 Animals First Aid. All rights reserved.