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Estimated 600k-1 million homeless animals
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ROLDA supports projects in Romania (since 2006), Ukraine (2022) and expanded more recently (2024) in other countries like Turkey, Bulgaria from where we saved dogs from puppy mills. The majority of our activity and funding will continue to focus on Romania.
Romania
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Other charities helped: 5
2026: 20 years anniversary
Over 100,000 animals helped
Shelters for dogs and cats
Friends Forever for seniors with pets
Sterilization
Education
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Ukraine
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Estimated 900,000 homeless dogs (Source: WHO and ZooPatrol Ukraine.
Over 40 shelters and rescuers helped repeatedly by ROLDA since 2022.
ROLDA volunteers save dogs from evacuating villages bombed
Rehoming dogs saved from war 2022-2023
Driving in war zone to deliver humanitarian aid
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Globally
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Estimated 900 million dogs worldwide. Of these, hundreds of millions are free-roaming, living as strays, feral dogs, or “community dogs.” Recent research suggests that India, Mexico, Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco and Romania are among the hardest hit *
Comparing National Numbers
National Estimates (millions):
India — 52.5M
Mexico — 12.6M
Turkey — 4M
Pakistan — 3M
Morocco — 1.35M
United States — 1.5M
Romania — 0,6- 1M
(*Source: Dog desk Animal Action combining a number of sources, including Reuters (2025) — India’s Supreme Court orders relocation of stray dogs, Economic Times (2025) — 37 lakh dog bites in a year, World Footprints (2024) — Mexico’s street dog problem, Yucatán Magazine (2024) — 50,000 dogs and cats roam Yucatán, Time (2024) — Turkey’s stray dog law, Arab News (2025) — Pakistan’s stray dog crisis, AP News (2024) — Morocco’s stray dog numbers, National Geographic (2023) — Meet the people helping Morocco’s stray dogs, Petscare (2024) — Stray dog statistics USA, Dogster (2024) — Global dog population)
Rescue operation to save abused dogs from puppy mills from Turkey and Bulgaria
Rehoming rescued dogs internationally (e.g. in Sweden, in the UK, etc)
Chefs for Pets to reduce food waste
Helping shelter in Palestine?
Providing repeated support to a shelter located in Antalya, Turkey
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