Global Bridgefor animals

A bridge between animals in trouble and people who can help

Global Bridge for Animals is a non-profit animal protection charity. We connect shelters, veterinary clinics, volunteers and transport crews into one working network, because none of them can carry this alone.

Rescued dogs looking out of a shelter enclosure with wooden kennels behind them

The foundation exists because the animal protection crisis in this region is larger than any single organisation. A shelter in one oblast has medicine but no transport. A clinic two borders away has surgical capacity but no patients funded. A volunteer with forty dogs has neither. Our job is to move resources between them quickly enough to matter.

That work is deliberately unromantic. We negotiate feed prices, we check veterinary invoices, we pay for fuel, and we chase reports from partners who are too tired to write them. The visible part, the rescue itself, is the short end of a long chain.

Our mission

Our mission is to protect, rescue, treat and rehome animals across the world, to shield them from cruelty, and to restore the balance between people and nature. Kindness and compassion are the foundation of being human, and helping those who cannot ask for help themselves is a shared moral duty rather than a favour.

Our vision is a world where no animal suffers from human cruelty, war, neglect or disaster, and where caring for animals is a normal part of how a society works, not an act of heroism by a few exhausted volunteers.

How the foundation is set up

  • 46340186

    Registered non-profit

    CO CF GLOBAL BRIDGE FOR ANIMALS, EDRPOU 46340186, a non-profit organisation registered in Ukraine.

  • Kyiv

    Head office in Kyiv

    The operational centre: coordination, procurement, veterinary contracts and reporting.

  • Belgium

    Representative in Europe

    Our representative in Belgium handles European partners, donors, grant paperwork and cross-border logistics.

The scale we work at

  • 510 facilities in the network Shelters, sterilisation centres and volunteers keeping animals, as of 2025
  • 3 000 animals in the largest shelters Dogs, cats, horses, ponies, donkeys, cows, goats, pigs, a camel, foxes, birds, hedgehogs and the occasional escaped goat
  • 550 000 animals helped Over three and a half years of continuous work
  • 5 000 000 kg feed handed over Delivered to partner shelters and volunteer groups

What we hold to

These are not slogans on a wall. They decide which requests we fund and which ones we turn down.

  • Money follows a named animal or a named bill, never a vague good cause.
  • Local teams decide. They know their region, their laws and their veterinarians better than any office does.
  • We publish what we spend, including administration, and we keep the receipts.
  • No photograph is staged and no story is invented. If we cannot show it, we say so.
  • Faces of people are blurred until we hold written permission to publish them.

The network, filmed on site

Partner shelters send us footage from their yards. Nothing here is stock video.

  • A partner shelter building with new enclosures
    A partner shelter building with new enclosures Built and equipped with funds raised through the foundation The video loads only after you press play
  • Dogs in a large enclosure
    Dogs in a large enclosure Group housing for dogs that tolerate each other well The video loads only after you press play

Work with us

Shelters, clinics, companies and private donors all plug into the same network. Pick the door that fits you.