Nima sanctuary is the first sanctuary for farm animals in Romania. Doina founded this sanctuary to host 4 cows rescued from a slaughterhouse. Today the sanctuary hosts 23 cows, 3 horses, 2 pigs, 1 donkey and 2 dogs. The founder of the sanctuary lives on site. All the staff love all animals and they all have rescue animals in their homes.

Back in 2013, I founded a non-profit association called Voice For The Needy to help animals in my home country Romania, especially dogs and cats. Pet abandonment and abuse is huge problem in Romania and you can check these infographics I made.

Fast forward and in April 2019, Doina found me on Facebook and approached me (I live in Los Angeles and Doina lives in Romania at the sanctuary). She asked for my help to raise money to purchase a pasture for the sanctuary. We both dived into the fundraising project and it took us a year to raise the 48,000 euros needed to buy the pasture. Doina's compassion for cows and basically all the animals gave me the motivation to give up dairy and I'm working on becoming a vegan like her.

In 2019, I decided to write an article about the cows and I checked the sanctuary's Flickr feed and picked some of the pictures I thought to show the cows in a positive light that might convince people to look at them with compassion.

Nima Sanctuary is a place for all the rescued farm animals, big or small, including cats and dogs rescued from Romania's streets, forests, landfills (pet abandonment is a huge problem in Romania). Basically, the sanctuary's doors are opened to any rescue animals that cross paths with the staff.

The sanctuary is mainly built to host cows and large farm animals, but pretty much any animals that need a place can come to the sanctuary. The fact is that cows are gentle animals that are capable of empathy and affection. We people should value them and treat them as living beings, not objects that produce meat and milk.