Donation Recipients
June 2024 Donation Recipients - Heartwood Haven & Super Senior Cat Sanctuary
Heartwood Haven Heartwood Haven is a local, woman-owned sanctuary for animals rescued from cruelty, abandonment, and neglect, located in Roy, WA. They are a home to over 85 rescued residents and have saved over 1,700 animals through local rescue and an adoption program. Their educational tours have also brought in over 2,000 visitors to the sanctuary to learn about the unique individuals living there. Your donation will help Heartwood Haven continue to fight against the disastrous effects of animal cruelty through rescue, education, and sanctuary to promote a more compassionate world for animals and humans. To learn more please visit: https://heartwoodhaven.org/  Super Senior Cat Sanctuary Super Senior Cat Sanctuary (SSCS) offers a safe place for senior and medical needs cats age 13+ by providing adoption and hospice. They prioritize cats at risk of euthanasia. Many of these cats find themselves in shelters when their guardians are deceased or unable/unwilling to care for them. Senior and medical needs cats are incredibly loving, resilient, playful, and deserving of care and love into their golden years.  SSCS provides a safe retirement home, medical care, snuggles, nap spots and play time, for as long as each cat needs it. To learn more please visit: Super Senior Cat Sanctuary
May 2024 Donation Recipients - Vietnam Animal Aid And Rescue & Barn Sanctuary
 Vietnam Animal Aid And Rescue (VAAR) Vietnam Animal Aid And Rescue (VAAR) is currently the only animal rights organization in Vietnam that explicitly advocates for a fully vegan lifestyle and the abolition of all animal use in the name of animal rights, the environment, food security, and public health. VAAR has done vegan education programs for school children, community outreach for animals in need of emergency medical care, and oversee the care and adoption of rescued animals at their sanctuary in Hoi An. They currently care for around 35 onsite rescued animals, including cats, dogs, pigs, and chickens. Your donation will aid in the continued care of the animals as well as goals to achieve a mobile veterinary clinic to conduct sterilization projects that prevent animal suffering before it’s created. To learn more please visit: https://www.vnanimalaid.org/ Barn Sanctuary Barn Sanctuary operates on the pillars of compassion, community, integrity and inspiration.They rescue abused and neglected farmed animals and provide them with a loving forever home where they receive lifelong care and safety. They inspire people by refraining from consuming animal products, and educate people on the plight of animals used in the agriculture industry. Your donation will allow them to keep saving lives, offering rehabilitation, continuing education, and advocacy efforts. To learn more please visit: https://www.barnsanctuary.org
April 2024 Donation Recipients - Little Hill Sanctuary + The Happy Herd
Little Hill Sanctuary Little Hill Sanctuary, located in Watsonville CA, believe that animals are here in this world with us and not for us. They offer a place of refuge to farmed animals who have been abused, neglected, abandoned, commodified, and saved from slaughter. All animals are welcomed with love and compassion, treated as unique individuals, and provided with sanctuary to live the lives they deserve free from harm. Your donation will allow the continued care, safety and solace for each animal that resides at Little Hill Sanctuary! To learn more please visit: https://littlehillsanctuary.org/ The Happy Herd Sanctuary On 4 wonderful acres in Aldergrove BC, the Happy Herd has many rescued roaming freely. They home several goats, sheep, chickens, cows, pigs, turkeys, ducks, cats, a dog, and a wonderful friendly donkey! Each with their own identity and personality. They became official in August 2018, and have been providing safe forever homes for the animals ever since. Your donation will allow them to continue the important work they do. To learn more please visit: https://www.happyherd.org/
March 2024 Donation Recipients - KSAR & JGI
 KSAR Kabul Small Animal Rescue is a veterinary clinic and animal shelter in Afghanistan working to help animals in need. With over 450 dogs and cats in their Kabul based shelters, their staff of 90 (including 10 veterinarians) provide medical care and shelter to injured and orphaned street, and to companion animals. They also find loving homes for homeless animals by providing adoption services both in Afghanistan and abroad. Your donation helps these animals who have no other advocates, aids in rescue efforts, and saves lives. To learn more please visit: https://www.kabulsmallanimalrescue.com/ JGI At the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, they're building a better, more sustainable world through community-centred conservation programs that support the intersection of animals, people, and the environment. They're continuing the work that Jane started in Africa more than 60 years ago, and bringing that work home to the 49th parallel. In Canada, they support youth and Indigenous communities to implement projects that address the convergence of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental inequity. Your donation aids in this community-centred conservation organization that advances the vision and work of Dr. Jane Goodall and empowers people to be compassionate citizens dedicated to a more sustainable planet. To learn more please visit: https://janegoodall.ca/ *Jane Goodall Photography by Stuart Clarke
February 2024 Donation Recipients - FARRM & Free Spirit Sanctuary
FARRM: Farm Animal Rescue and Rehoming Movement (FARRM) is an animal sanctuary near Wetaskiwin, AB, operating under values affirmed in a vegan lifestyle, with facilities for surrendered and abused farm animals. FARRM started as an initiative to help the growing number of abandoned potbelly pigs, ran a support network for these homeless & abused animals, and after great success with that initiative (and with over 100 potbelly pigs rescued and rehomed in under a year), the movement continued to expand and FARRM was officially created. FARRM expands their reach to not only potbelly pigs, but also to other farm type animals that find themselves victims of the fad pet mentality, or those that are valued only for the price of their flesh. Most FARRM residents have endured traumatic life experiences or have significant behavioural and/or medical needs. FARRM is committed to ensuring sanctuary residents live happy, healthy lives. Sponsorship or donation is one of the best ways to support FARRM, as it helps ensure that they have consistent financial resources to care for the animals. To learn more please visit: https://www.farrmrescue.org/ FSS: Free Spirit Sanctuary is a vegan sanctuary that is a place of healing, peace, and freedom for domestic and wild horses, donkeys, and farmed animals who have been rescued from abuse, neglect, slaughter, or have special needs. The animals have a forever home at FSS where they are free to simply be themselves while being safe and cared for. Healing equine trauma through facilitating recovery needs of horses, advocating for the protection of the freedom of Alberta's Wild Horses, ending horse slaughter in Canada, and offering peace and freedom for all sentient beings are at the core of FSS philosophies. Your donation will aid in the continuation of the care, aid, and rescue efforts that Free Spirit Sanctuary does. To learn more please visit: https://www.freespiritsanctuary.ca/fss
January 2024 Donation Recipients - AlleyCATS Alliance & Black Sheep Retreat
AlleyCATS Alliance AlleyCATS Alliance is a 100% non-profit society dedicated to providing rescue, rehabilitation, medical care and adoption to feral, orphaned or abandoned cats and kittens throughout the Okanagan Valley that has assisted close to 1,700 cats, generally from Osoyoos to Kelowna, since they began. They provide education on proper cat & kitten care, provide veterinarian services, provide a spay & neuter program, offer volunteer opportunities, and facilitate safe adoptions. Your donation will allow the continued work to ensure the safety and care of as many cats and kittens as possible. For more information please visit: https://alleycatsalliance.org/ Black Sheep Retreat Black Sheep Retreat is a high quality care sanctuary near Cancun that is currently home to 30 rescued animals, each one getting individual attention and care allowing their personalities to really open up and shine through. With only eight farm animal sanctuaries in the entire country of Mexico, Black Sheep Retreat aims to give a much needed home to an array of species rescued from slaughter or abusive and exploitative situations. Your donation will allow the sanctuary residents to continue being fed, cared for, receiving veterinarian services, and live in continued safety. For more information please visit: https://blacksheepretreatsanctuary.com/
December 2023 Donation Recipients - The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada & Rabbitats
The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada Founded in 1992 and beginning with 3 fostered donkey, The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada has since provided a lifelong home to over 300 donkeys, mules and hinnies who are unwanted, neglected or abused, or whose owners can no longer care for them; and promotes the responsible stewardship of all animals through humane education. Every animal at the DSC is extended peace, freedom and protection, the best possible care and medical attention, the right to life regardless of age or condition and a dignified, peaceful death, induced only in the event of extreme suffering or the loss of quality of life. Your gift will allow the continued work, education, care, and support that these animals so rightly deserve. To learn more please visit: https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.ca/   Rabbitats Rabbitats is a 100% volunteer run charity composed of a group of animal lovers dedicated to helping abandoned and feral rabbits.They provide humane and long term solutions to feral rabbit management through research, consultations, advisory and educational efforts. Rabbitats helps build affordable colony housing for sterilized rabbits and educates new rabbit guardians on low maintenance and sustainable care. Controlled rabbit populations can replace feral colonies.Your generous contributions help us provide food, shelter, and veterinary care to the 300+ rabbits in our shelters. To learn more please visit:https://rabbitats.org/ Â
November 2023 Donation Recipients - The Ass Menagerie & LAILO Santuary
 The Ass Menagerie Sanctuary  Founded by Leisa Miller in 2017 The Ass Menagerie Sanctuary, a rural 32-acre, century-old farm in Wainfleet, ON, is now a safe haven to 54 animals. Each one is a rescue, most with a difficult past. Some of them have ongoing issues – some are learning to trust humans again, and all have been promised forever sanctuary where they are treated as sentient beings deserving of not only sustenance and shelter but also love, health care, enrichment, companionship, and peace of mind. Your donation allows the continued care for each and every one of the individuals residing at The Ass Menagerie Sanctuary! To learn more, please visit: https://www.assmenageriesanctuary.com/   LAILO Sanctuary Located in Lower Canard, NS, LAILO Sanctuary (Loving Animals Is Loving Ourselves) is a home for animals, a place for education, and a community for compassion. They are a sanctuary to as many rescued or surrendered farm animals as possible, while also finding suitable, loving homes for animals within the community. They offer limited visits to the sanctuary to help people learn to see the animals as individuals, rather than commodities. And they cultivate a community of like-minded and compassionate people that connect through volunteering at the sanctuary. Your donation allows LAILO Sanctuary to continue the care and education they provide. To learn more, please visit: https://www.lailofarmsanctuary.org/ Â
October 2023 Donation Recipients - Piece of Heaven Project & Yogi Street Dog Rescue
 Piece of Heaven Project  Originally from the UK, Mark and Sharon have made British Columbia home and since 2015 have provided a safe haven, free of cruelty, to over 90 animals of 12 species who would have otherwise been stuck in abuse or neglect. The Project nurtures change, with a goal to create a ripple effect that brings about a transformation. Your donation will help not only the animals directly, but also for POHP to continue to educate and promote the adoption of a compassionate, considerate lifestyle, a vegan philosophy, and how that impacts the future of the planet and all its inhabitants. To learn more please visit: https://www.pohpsanctuary.com/ or https://www.instagram.com/pieceofheavenproject/?hl=en  Yogi Street Dog Rescue 100% Volunteer-Powered, international street dog rescue Society based out of West Vancouver, B.C., Yogi Street Dog Rescue Society is committed to ending the needless suffering of vulnerable, at risk street dogs in India through community support and education. Their goal is to create a world where street dogs are free from unnecessary disease, abuse and starvation. Your donation will help support their spay and neuter programs, fund feeding programs, ongoing emergency medical treatments and vaccination initiatives, To learn more please visit their instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/yogistreetdogrescue/ or Website: https://www.yogistreetdogrescue.com/ Â
September 2023 Donation Recipients - Four Paws Food Bank & Animal Food Bank
  For the month of September we want to offer ways you can help animals currently affected by the BC Wildfires! Four Paws Food Bank. Four Paws Food Bank is a non-profit organization devoted to keeping people going through tough times connected to their pets. They offer a weekly no-barrier pet food bank in Kamloops, provide pet food, supplies and emergency funding for vet care for families experiencing financial hardship and housing instability. They foster companion animals for people in shelters or hospitals and are offering assistance to animals currently displaced or evacuated from the BC Wildfires. To learn more please visit: https://www.facebook.com/fourpawsfoodbank/ Animal Food Bank The Animal Food Bank focuses on eliminating people having to choose between feeding themselves or their companion animals, or having to surrender them altogether due to inability to support them. Human food banks are not mandated to supply pet food, thus why this organization exists. Their website currently has specific information on how to donate, support, foster or receive support for those currently affected by the BC Wildfires. To learn more please visit: https://animalfoodbank.org/
How to help animals effected by the BC Wildfires
Where Can I find updates/changes to the on-going crisis: Okanagan Humane Society SPCA - Thompson Okanagan Wildfires Emergency Support Animal Food Bank Facebook Group - BCs Emergency Livestock Animal Evacuation Group Pet Safe Coalition Where can I donate Pet Food & Supplies CLICK HERE Some of the most common items / requests for are: Dry and wet cat/kitten food Disposable litter trays (Dollar store) Puppy/Kitten milk replacer Puppy Pads Dry and wet dog food Crates (clean) Dog beds (clean) Toys/long lasting chews to keep contained animals busy (Kongs to be stuffed, durable safe chew bones, interactive play toys, or any toys really!) Cat harnesses/leashes Can openers Small bags cat litter Litter scoops Small garbage bags Cat toys / Cat beds Towels/Small blankets to cover cages/carriers Food/water dishes (cat & dog) Doggie poop bags Paper towels/disinfectant wipes Dog collars/leashes  You can also stop in to a local store and purchase items needed. Gift cards are a wonderful idea as well so they can be used on a case by case basis as needs change/arise.  Where can I donate to displaced Farm Animals CLICK HERE Where Can I find emergency foster care for my companion animal CLICK HERE Where can I find support / land for displaced horses CLICK HERE We thank our Community for coming together to aid the displaced animals from the BC Wildfires and we thank the firefighters who courageously take on this crisis. Please contact us at info@vegansupply.ca if you think we have missed valuable information that needs to be shared regarding furthering the assistance of animals.
August 2023 Donation Recipients - Black Goat Farm Sanctuary & Pumpkins Acres
 Located in Ontario, Canada Black Goat Farm and Sanctuary is a small scale farm animal sanctuary that helps injured, orphaned and abused farm animals. They currently house goats, turkeys, chickens, ducks, guinea hens, pigs, sheep and cattle. Alongside the Sanctuary, they have a large vegetable garden with a portion of all produce sales going directly back to the Sanctuary. Their mission is to raise awareness on how livestock are treated as a whole across this country and how to implement change. To learn more please visit: https://blackgoatfarm.com/ Pumpkin’s Acres Rabbit Rescue is based out of the Niagara Region in Ontario, Canada and is dedicated to caring for unwanted and neglected rabbits and finding them forever homes, while educating people on the importance of proper rabbit care. Pumpkin's Acres ensures rabbits live out the life of care and safety that they deserve.To learn more please visit: https://www.pumpkinsacres.ca/
