Zoo volunteer Anastasia Tykha, whose photo during the evacuation from the destroyed Irpen went viral all over the world, asked Ukrainians for help for a shelter for animals.
On her Instagram page, she said that it costs a lot to maintain the shelter and she no longer has the opportunity to take in new animals.
"We will not accept animals in the spring, we cannot handle the number we have now," she wrote.
In March 2022, the girl and her husband took 15 dogs and cats out on foot.
"Since last spring, I have learned that a shelter costs a lot of money. And not earned, as many think, but expenses, huge expenses for everything," the volunteer wrote.
She explained that it is possible to collect money for treatment and food for the wards, but the shelter needs much more expenses. For example, she has to wash 3-4 times a day.
"I deny myself banal things in order to buy household chemicals at the shelter," Tykha said. "Now I'm struggling with the desire to end my dream and go to work."
You can help Anastasia's shelter using the following details:
- Card of Monobank Anastasia T. 5375414115367020;
- PayPal anastariesz@гмайл.чом;
- Nova Poshta — Irpin, branch 12, Tykha Anastasia +380980681366.
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As EcoPolitic reported earlier, twenty-year-old animal volunteer Anastasia Tykha and her husband Artur Lee took 15 sick dogs out on foot during the evacuation from Irpen, engulfed in fire. The photo of Anastasia with the dogs was taken by the American photographer Christopher Okikone. The picture "went viral" in social networks and got into the strips of many world media.
