Animal Welfare Transformed
Donate TodayOur Mission
Global Strays tackles the root of animal suffering in underserved communities worldwide.
While we support urgent rescue, our deeper impact comes from empowering pet-owning communities with veterinary care and education that stops neglect and abandonment before it starts. We work in partnership with local organizations to ensure our impact goes deeper, cultivating long-term solutions that safeguard animal well-being from the start.
Global Strays pairs emergency response with long-term investment in communities—offering vet care, education, and the resources to reduce pet abandonment and build sustainable animal welfare systems. Behind each animal fed and sheltered, every pet spayed, every horse cured, and every child educated, lies a profound cultural shift, fostering real transformation within communities.
Our Strategy
Saving animals today–preventing suffering tomorrow.
Education
Education is at the heart of our work; our school and community workshops encourage empathy towards animals and provide vital frameworks for understanding them. We also train families with the skills to better care for their pets and working horses–building knowledge to create profound, lasting change for animals.
Spay and Neuter
Keeping animals off the streets starts with accessible spay/neuter programs. Our free clinics overcome cost barriers and address cultural perspectives on sterilization, empowering families to prevent unwanted litters. Because many pets in these communities roam freely, it dramatically curtails the devastating cycle of stray births.
Vet Care
For countless animals access to veterinary attention is out of reach. Global Strays bridges this gap with free clinics: providing many working horses with the only veterinary care they have ever received and supporting emergency interventions for cats and dogs, ultimately safeguarding livelihoods and empowering communities to protect the animals in their lives..
Shelter Support
Working in severely underserved areas of the world, our partner shelters are experts at identifying their communities’ needs and partner with us to create solutions that have a deep rooted impact. We provide them with financial support and technical assistance, ensuring they can provide shelter, care, food, veterinary services, for their rescues.
Our Story
From compassion to sustainable solutions
While traveling in Central America, our founder, Liz Shafiroff witnessed starving strays barely able to stand and knew she could not look away from their suffering.
The problem was clear: underfed cats and dogs wandering the streets with no home to go to, and skeletal, injured workhorses that struggled to make it home.
The solution was less clear: all of these animals desperately needed shelter, veterinary care, and food, but finding a loving home for every stray in countries where up to 60% of domestic animals are strays could take generations.
Determined to find sustainable solutions, Liz founded Global Strays in 2017. Today, together with local partners, Liz and her team design community based solutions that make a difference. By partnering with local veterinarians, animal advocates, and other animal welfare professionals, Global Strays tackles the root of animal suffering.