Photos: 250+ Fur Coats Sent by PETA Entities to Refugees and Others During Freeze
Photos: 250+ Fur Coats Sent by PETA Entities to Refugees and Others During Freeze
Islamabad, Pakistan – To help Afghan refugees and Pakistanis in need during freezing temperatures, PETA UK and PETA US have sent more than 250 fur coats – all donated by people who experienced a change of heart about wearing fur – to Life for Relief and Development for distribution in villages and refugee camps in northern Pakistan.
Photos from the distributions are available here.
“Freezing temperatures are historically causing catastrophic conditions in several areas of Pakistan. Life for Relief and Development (lifeusa.org) has been helping children for 29 years,” says Life for Relief and Development CEO Dr Hany Saqr.
“We are partnering with PETA to provide children in Pakistan and Afghanistan with humanitarian help in the form of fur coats that help to keep them alive and warm during the harsh winters. Many needy families rely on donations like this.”
“We can’t bring back the animals who were killed for their fur, but people who have decided never to wear fur again are at least able to use their earlier bad decisions to do some good today,” says PETA UK founder Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA encourages everyone to give up fur to help the truly needy, who are the only ones with any excuse to wear it.”
Animals used for fur spend their lives in cramped cages, where they pace frantically back and forth, gnaw on the cage bars, and mutilate themselves before being electrocuted, gassed, or poisoned. Those trapped in nature may suffer for days before trappers arrive to shoot, strangle, beat, or stamp them to death.
PETA entities have worked with Life for Relief and Development to donate fur items to humans in need for more than 15 years and also sends unwanted furs to homeless shelters and wildlife rehabilitation programmes (to be used as bedding for orphaned animals) or uses them in informative displays. A recent PETA UK delivery of nearly 100 fur coats almost didn’t make it to Afghanis in need after the Taliban took over Afghanistan – but a persistent local contact managed to get the shipment cleared, allowing Life for Relief and Development to distribute the coats.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
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Sascha Camilli +44 (0) 20 7923 6244; [email protected]
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