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Add $5 to feed a homeless animal for two weeks in Romania or Ukraine
The Festive Season is a time when friends and family gather to celebrate with good food, hot drinks, and lots of laughter. These cozy times are filled with warmth from the hearth and felt in our hearts. Conversely, stray animals don’t know what it feels like to eat a hearty, nutritious meal or be surrounded by warmth and love. To them, the Festive Season is just another season filled with hunger, loneliness, and neglect.
Every winter, ROLDA strives to provide food and warmth to thousands of homeless animals in the southeast of Romania. And since spring 2022, we have been helping #UkraineAnimals the best we can. For these homeless animals, or “nobody’s animals”, there is no Santa, there is no Festive Season.
Together, we can make a difference! During the Festive Season (and beyond, if you’d like), you can be their “Santa Paws” and spread some holiday warmth and cheer to these homeless animals and the animals we care for at ROLDA.
Christmas is not
just for people
Because of your generosity, ROLDA will be able to go again this year where Santa does not.
Milestones Achieved Before
ROLDA Turns 20 Years Old
Since ROLDA’s Christmas Meals appeal began nine years ago, we have delivered 125,000 meals to starving homeless animals
in Galati, Romania, and since 2022, in Ukraine as well.
Milestones reached before ROLDA is turning 20 years old
100000 animals helped in Romania and Ukraine
125000 meals offered since Christmas Meals Campaign started
Since the Holidays Food Appeal began nine years ago, we have exceeded 120k meals delivered to starving homeless animals in the Galati community in Romania and since 2022, Ukraine too.
ROLDA’s goal for this year’s
Christmas Meals appeal
Our goal is to distribute 25.000 meals across 20 locations in Romania and Ukraine as follows:
3 locations in Galati, including areas surrounding our shelters.
6 small NGOs in Romania (we help farm animals, too!).
10 different rescuers in Ukraine.
1 shelter in Antalya, Turkey.
Please help us reach 25.000 meals for animals in need.
For animals living on the streets or overcrowdedshelters, Christmas is just another day where they barely survive. Once rescued by organizations like ROLDA, they are safe and well-fed, but many never get adopted.
Years pass and we grow old and happy together at ROLDA, helping them live comfortably and loved for the rest of their lives. Senior dogs have the lowest adoption rate of any dog. Here at ROLDA, 60% of dogs are seniors.
Your Santa Paws Gift Options
($1 for 1 Meal)
Would you like to enhance your donation of Christmas Meals with any of the following options?
Buy meals
Add $10 for a toy that will enrich the environment for a dog while in our care
Buy a toy
Add $15 for a blanket to keep a senior dog warm during winter
Buy a blanket
Or
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You have the power to transform the lives of the animals suffering alone and in silence! Your generosity, compassion and kindness are the true miracles they need this Festive Season (or any season). Be their “Santa Paws” and your kindness to an animal in need!
Chefs for Pets Kindred Kitchen – Holiday Challenge
This initiative celebrates creativity, compassion, and sustainability by encouraging you to make homemade meals or treats for your pets made primarily from leftovers in your fridge or pantry basics.
Create a meal or treat for your pet using leftovers from your fridge.
Share a photo or a short video of you AND your pet enjoying your meal or treat.
Submit your recipe (and story, optionally) for a chance to be featured in our recipe e-book and win prizes!
It’s #dogsXMAS and #catsXMAS too!
ROLDA’s slogan is “Christmas is not just for people…” simply because it takes everyone to make this world a better place for animals.
Without your support, thousands of animals who rely on ROLDA will have awful lives, let alone a festive season.: The hundreds of dogs in our private shelters, the packs of strays roaming the streets, the thousands of animals saved by our partners in Ukraine, and the dozens of cats we care for in our sanctuary or by our partners…they all depend on you and us. How do we help them all?
How can you help THOUSANDS of animals in Romania and Ukraine with a small gift? The answer is simple: you are not alone. Thousands of supporters like you share the spirit of giving with ROLDA during the Festive Season, and all your generosity combined enables ROLDA to help the thousands of animals in need.
Every successful story begins with a single person, but can’t be carried alone; it relies on team effort to continue to be written.
For ROLDA supporters, Christmas is every day because they are generous and empathic.
2025 is coming to an end…
…and we are proud to report these accomplishments:
We helped a total of 21.000 vulnerable, homeless, and abused animals.
We covered sterilization costs for 450 dogs and cats across different towns in Romania.
We continue to support small animal charities across Romania to prevent them from closing down.
We continue to rescue/shelter/rehome animals who have no one else.
We continue to support over 40 shelters and animal rescuers in Ukraine, especially closer to the front line, where there is a concentration of injured animals and those in dire need of evacuation.
We extended our support internationally to Antalya, Turkey (1 shelter) and in Palestina (1 shelter) as well as a Bulgarian rescuer who saves animals from critical situations (puppy mills, floods).
Through our social program, #FriendsForever, we helped 75 seniors with pets affected by the dramatic increase in living costs.
We distributed 1500 colouring books to schools across Romania
Big thanks from the ROLDA team for another amazing year together!
Extra Festive Ways to Give
Shop for other Christmas items
Send a ROLDA Christmas e-card to loved ones
Buy personalized handmade ROLDA gifts
