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About the shelter

Million of Friends Association – We rescue Animals since 1997.
 We are the oldest Animal Protection Association in Romania. The Millions of Friends Association (AMP) was founded in  1997 by Cristina Lapis, a former journalist from Brasov who dedicated her life to save and care for the animals. Supported by her husband, Roger Lapis, former Honorary Consul of France in Romania, she has created one of the first Non-Governmental Animal Welfare Organizations in Romania. During this time, AMP has built up a strong team of vet specialists, transported and cared for animals, managing to save from suffering and death over 30,000 animals, most of them stray dogs, cats, horses, but also bears, wolves, foxes and deer. 
In 1999 – the Dog Victory Shelter, the first private shelter in Romania and one of the most important projects of the Association, was born. In the Victory Shelter we managed to host, treat and care until now, about 30,000 animals.
 In 2000 – for the first time in Romania, a veterinary medical emergency line was set up by AMP. With the help of this, people call us and we save the injured animals in Brasov.
 2005 was the beginning of another project of crucial importance in the life of the Association: work began at the Libearty Sanctuary in Zărnești and the first captive bears were saved.
 The year 2011 – represented the end of cruelty and unnecessary euthanasia of stray dogs in Brasov, after AMP signed a partnership with the City Hall of Brasov, which obliges us to provide medical care and medical treatment to dogs in the Stupini Public Shelter.
 In 2013 – the Association started a special project in Education: we managed to get elective courses at the schools in Braşov and to teach the children lessons about the importance of the animals in our lives.
 Year 2016 – a partnership was signed with the Town Hall of Zărneşti to help the homeless quadrupeds here. Million of Friends Association is a non-governmental organization guided exclusively by the principle of respecting and protecting all forms of life.
We take over the wounded animals, the sick ones and the veterinary medical emergencies. We want to stop abandonment, unnecessary euthanasia, cruelty to animals and we fight for the release of wild animals, captive under inhumane conditions. WE DREAM OF A WORLD IN WHICH SUCH ASSOCIATIONS ARE NOT NECESSARY ANYMORE!