• Emergency Response and Rescue: We act quickly in disaster zones to rescue animals trapped under debris, stranded near collapsed structures, or abandoned in the streets. Our field teams, made up of volunteers, take the first crucial steps for survival through veterinarian-supported interventions.
  
  
• Medical Treatment and Rehabilitation: We provide veterinary treatment, psychological recovery, and care for animals that are injured, traumatized, or have suffered from long periods without food. When necessary, animals are placed in dedicated rehabilitation spaces and receive long-term support to reintegrate into life.
  
  
• Rehoming and Safe Spaces: We create adoption networks to ensure that rescued animals are placed in temporary or permanent homes. Each process is carefully monitored to match animals with responsible and safe adopters who are mindful of their past traumas.
  
  
• Lost Animal Tracking and Strengthening the Human–Animal Bond:
  When owned animals go missing during disasters, we use digital databases, microchip scanning, social-media alerts, and volunteer networks to help reunite them with their families. In this process, we make no distinction between owned and unowned animals — every animal’s right to survive is our priority.

The campaign is carried out in collaboration with local governments, veterinary chambers, animal rights organizations, disaster coordination teams, and neighborhood volunteers. We develop shared protocols to ensure the effective use of resources, information sharing, and coordinated intervention.

At the same time, we strengthen local resistance movements and civil initiatives in disaster zones, placing locally sourced knowledge at the center of the process.

Disasters are crises that affect not only human communities but also the animals we live alongside.
However, disaster management and humanitarian aid mechanisms often overlook animals; systematic solutions for the protection, treatment, and reintegration of surviving animals into life are rarely developed.

The “From Rubble to Life” campaign was created to make this structural gap visible and to advocate for the integration of animals into disaster policies. Within this framework, we build multi-stakeholder collaborations to include animals in pre-disaster preparedness, emergency response, and post-disaster recovery processes. Drawing on our field experience and collected data, we develop policy recommendations.

The campaign emphasizes the necessity of a rights-based, sustainable, and multispecies approach to disaster response — one that centers life beyond the human.

From Rubble to Life is not a temporary intervention, but rather a long-term advocacy framework that aims to institutionalize the protection of animals under disaster conditions.

Email: info@dortayaklisehir.org
Address: Bozkurt Mah. Seymen Sk.
No:48/B - Şişli, İstanbul/Türkiye