Every year, we memorialize the tradition of a precious member of the PETA family by providing the Gregory J. Reiter Animal Rescue Award to those who show motivating devotion to animals. Greg’s other half, Alysoun Mahoney, today honors her late other half with her own dedication to animal rights and her efforts to offer rescued dogs, cats, horses, and wildlife with caring houses.
This year’s award recipient, Animal Rescue Kharkiv (ARK), has actually caught the hearts of Alysoun and the countless others who have actually viewed its motivating videos on YouTube or check out information about its lifesaving work for animals on PETA’s blog.
ARK staffers have actually been pulling animals out of shelled structures and saving abandoned cats and dogs in eastern Ukraine considering that the war initially began, risking all of it to help animals, even after big areas of the group’s center were minimized to debris as an outcome of being struck by Russian rockets. The group has actually offered veterinary care to many animals having a hard time to make it through the destruction surrounding them and assisted much of them begin their journey to safe houses far from the cutting edge.
In Alysoun’s words, “I have followed reports about animal rescue work in Ukraine since the first days after the February 2022 invasion, and I have been awed by the courage and professionalism that ARK team members have consistently displayed under unimaginable adversity. I am so proud that this award in Greg’s memory can do just a little to recognize the group’s heroic work.”
We hope this award functions as a suggestion of the effect of ARK’s lifesaving work for animals, which has actually moved numerous individuals worldwide. Duzhe dyakuyu! (“Thanks very much!”)
Visit PETA.org/GCF to get more information about how you can help animals in Ukraine.
