Take care of abandoned dogs and offer them all the care and support necessary for their reintegration into a family or, if it is not possible to end up living with a family, they can live in peace and welfare in the shelter.
Bring animal shelters closer to society through different social groups.
Educate children in the sensitization towards animals and nature.
Altarriba Foundation was created in 1998 to develop projects for the protection of animals and the environment. Among other milestones, it managed to promote the modification of the Penal Code to make animal abuse a crime and to help change the law so that animals are not killed in shelters.
The Foundation's Bú Bup Parc shelter is a dog shelter in the middle of nature. In it, the animals receive a perfect environment to be calm, as soon as they enter they are dewormed and identified, and the staff starts the adaptation phases, first with the rest of the animals and then with emotional therapies with humans.
The dogs at the shelter live very well, they have a large area to run and play, an artificial lagoon that relieves the heat in summer, and special attention 365 days a year from the staff. For many of the dogs in the shelter, the option of being adopted is practically impossible, either because of their physical characteristics (dogs incorrectly classified as potentially dangerous), chronic illnesses or age; they will spend their entire lives in the shelter. That is why financial support is so important.
Rescue abused dogs, take them into the shelter, identify them, deworm them and rehabilitate them through emotional therapy so that they can have a family life.
Show the shelter to school children, with arranged visits, to teach them the importance of respect for animals.
Facilitate visits to the shelter by social centers for minors and people with disabilities for therapy.
Organize groups of volunteers to be able to divide the groups of animals (depending on which are the youngest and most energetic, the senior ones, the most fearful ones...) and to be able to carry out more effectively the emotional therapy and the reinsertion of the animals in families.
The 80 dogs currently living in the Bú Bup Parc shelter.
Fundación Altarriba (website)