Friend for friend

Background:

Every fourth retiree in Russia is alone. Risk of early death among lonely people reaches 70%.

There are 100 000 stray dogs in Moscow. Their lifetime is 2 years.

To live longer, stray dogs need to be taken care of, while lonely people need to care for someone.


Solution:

«Care prolongs life».

We have created “Friend for friend” program to train stray dogs to become companion-dogs for lonely retirees.

Together with city shelters we train dogsto adapt to elders. We help lonely people become owners of these dogs.


Execution:

Website to change perception of stray dogs and to introduce them to future owners.

Because of zero budget, we started working with volunteers: bloggers, journalists, photographers, film directors.

Program started to gain notoriety really fast. We won “Socially Active Media” festivaland Sanoma IMedia provided us with free press coverage.


Result:

In 3 months, 27 500 000 media impressions with media value of 10 500 000 rubles.

The project was remarked by Moscow Government and received their approval for further development.

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