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We are ROLDA and we exist to #givehope to neglected, abused animals and people who care about them. Our primarily focus is rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming animls in need, as well as providing aid to poor communities & others rescuers in Romania and since the war started, also in Ukraine.
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We fight against animal abandonment by taking them in or helping their owners.
Fighting animal cruelty, neglect and abuse is a constant uphill battle for us.
We pay for sterilization campaigns, the humane way to stop stray overpopulation.
Help us get illegal shelters and their traumatizing practices become history.
Wildlife trafficking is life-threatening for the animals. ROLDA is fighting against it.
We want to stop wildlife tourism exploitation. Join us.
Learn a bit of our history, how ROLDA started, why we operate in Galati, what we have been able to change for animals in a country where public shelters continue to put Romania to shame under EU's indifferent eyes.
Find out some of the most important moments of ROLDA activity.
To make HOME a little better for every living soul. To give SHELTER.
Because the bigger the challenge, the bigger the people rising up to face it.
that makes ROLDA rescue work possible in a country where animals have no one else.
Rescued in Romania, loved all over the World
Preventive care is the best way of showing these dogs somebody is really looking out for them, by not letting them contract diseases and parasites.
Taking care of animals means keeping preventable illnesses at bay.
Transmissible from dog to dog, a terrible condition easier to prevent than cure.
More than being a nuisance, these parasites may carry crippling or fatal diseases.
Neglect, abuse and abandonment, backed by lack of knowledge are the causes of suffering we need to address. How? By educating people.
0 unwanted pups born = 0 unwanted pups abandoned
Not all owners are heartless. Some are just very poor. So, we help
Before-after images show our animals’ difficult journeys. They show the resilience of dogs and our hard work.
Although abusive and punishable by law, keeping dogs in chains is still a practice in many rural areas in Romania. It is a challenge to really change things.
Dog pounds are the places hope and humanity go to die. Help shut them down!
Help us call on authorities to punish the Tulcea animal abuser caught on tape.
Join our plea to ban fireworks in Romania and stop animals getting injured.
Wildlife animals’ lives are worth more than the price of tickets. Help us save them!
Speak out! Spread the word about our activity, about what we have already done, about what we plan to do. Wear our logo and start a conversation.
We run two dog shelters, a cat sanctuary and help over 1000 animals each year. But if it wasn’t for the generosity of our supporters like you, we wouldn’t exist. Can you continue help fund our vital work?
Send a check to ROLDA branches in Romania, the UK, the US, or Australia.
We have bank accounts open in the UK, the US, Switzerland, Norway, Australia, Sweden.
How gifts in will make a difference
Animals give us a better life. We can make them a better World. See how!
Every gift in will has the power to transform the animals World the way YOU dream it to be.
Help us build a piece of art animal sanctuary in South-East Europe for people to also benefit.
When you donate Bitcoin and other crypto to ROLDA, you generally owe no capital gains tax.
You can turn your used vehicle into a meaningful contribution to help animals and ROLDA USA
Buy a virtual gift that helps a real animal in need!
Buy lovely, handmade items and help animals in need as all proceeds go to them.
ROLDA mission is to provide aid efficiently, responsibly and humanely to strays and abused animals in Romania.
Romania
Ukraine
Pino was cruelly abandoned in the midst of freezing winter, left to fend for himself as a helpless 6 months-old kitten. Luckily his cries for help were heard by his our friends from the Great Catsby association and he soon became part of our family of rescued babies. At the moment he is enjoying life in his foster home, sleeping most of the day in cozy fluffy cat beds, chasing his foster furry friends and hunting the feather toy like there’s no tomorrow.
This defenseless dog was shot in his front paw, in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. We were relieved to know that rescue efforts done by our friend Robert, were successful in saving the dog’s life. He took the dog immediately to the vet clinic where he was examined, the wound was cleaned and he had a surgery to amputate the rest of his front leg. Chips has made a remarkable recovery and the wonderful news is that he will soon be traveling to his new family in Germany.
Social campaigns
Starting with 2022, ROLDA decided to expand our aid for animals to other small charities from Romania in danger of closing down because of financial problems caused by the COVID period, followed by the war implications, the energetic and economic crisis.
With your help, ROLDA will continue to support charities from Tulcea, Caracal, Focsani, Rm Sarat, Slobozia, Solca and Desa.
Many seniors in Romania live on the edge of collapse, depressed, in poverty, often being forced to choose between buying medicines or paying utility bills. Having a pet, for many, is the best thing that has happened to them. ROLDA’s FriendsForever campaign will continue in 2025 thanks to your generosity and care.
During 2024, ROLDA funded sterilization campaigns in Galati, Tulcea and Caracal.
Ukrainian partners sent update photos of sterilizations done throughout the year. ROLDA will continue to pay for sterilizations in both countries.
Help a puppy get nutritional food, treatment for diarrhea and vaccines to protect them against mass spreading deadly diseases.
$21 is enough to help 7 pups.
Richie was found in the Korosten area with a severe wound on his back; after weeks in hospital, he fully recovered.
$50 is enough to pay a visit to the vet.
Bill is a senior dog brought to the shelter by his owner in tears. His wife passed and he had undergone heart surgery, he couldn’t keep Bill any longer. We welcomed Bill in our shelter and soon, he was rehomed in Switzerland.
$5 is enough to pay for an annual vaccine for a dog.
ROLDA support their Romanian colleagues to free dogs from chains whenever possible. Injured dogs are easier to free because owners often do not care enough to pay for treatment. Without our intervention, these poor dogs would continue to live imprisoned and in pain.
ROLDA opposes animal abandonment, cruelty and euthanasia.
We paused the delivery of doghouses to allow us to focus on helping Ukrainian animals affected by the war. In 2025, we hope to deliver a minimum of 50 dog houses to pets living exposed to extreme weather conditions.
We are proud to announce that thousands of coloring books have already been distributed for free in schools in different parts of Romania starting with 2022 and we will not stop here. We hope to print the translated version of the coloring book and distribute it outside Romania.
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“I would like to thank you and your staff for blessing us with such a wonderful dog, Cookie is adorable. We got him in September and as the days passed settling in, delightful characteristics unfolded. His excited pant on greeting you, his nose erect then breaking out into a funny bellowing howl. Wriggling on his back contentedly alleviating his itch and his big paws shaking about, he resembled Baloo the hilarious gentle bear in the cartoon Jungle Book! Our Baloo had landed and certainly won a big place in our hearts! A BIG THANK YOU!”
“The food you have sent is excellent! Also many thanks for the veterinary medicines! And the human food was very very helpful. We have many puppies now, and soldiers keep bringing injured animals. Also, animals from fields with many ticks. The lines to wait to get human food are very long, people have to start waiting from the night time and all day. There are very few helpers left in the shelter (12 people) so we cannot stand in lines for a whole day. We have many debts in the vet clinic for injured animals.”
“A few months ago, we were desperately reaching out for support to animal aid organizations around the world, as we are focusing on animal rescue in Romania. Very few have replied, and the only ones that actually offered support were our neighbors based in Galati, ROLDA. We are also very appreciative of the fact they decided to support fellow rescuers in Romania, and thus, animals outside their immediate reach, as this kind of cooperation is unfortunately not so common although so necessary.”
You and I have funded
Animals helped
ROLDA Shelters in Romania
Other Shelters helped in Romania
Rescuers helped in Ukraine
We still need your support. Here’s how you can get involved…
Donate once or monthly to help injured, abused animals
Leave a gift in your will to change the future of animals and people who look after them.
Join the Teaming group for only 1 E/month.
Donate in memory of someone special.
Buy gifts that give back to dogs in need.
Donate to ROLDA in crypto currencies or NFTs.
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