Nicole Frey took her love of animals and turned it into a large non-profit organization serving anyone and everyone who loves their pet.
It all started with Odin, the dog of a homeless man that Frey met while living in Kelowna.
91裸聊视频淚 went home and was like 91裸聊视频榟ow does this dude feed his dog?91裸聊视频� and started Googling and found out there wasn91裸聊视频檛 a pet food bank in the region. There91裸聊视频檚 actually not a lot of them across Canada, or at that time there wasn91裸聊视频檛. So I decided to launch and two days later we launched, just my husband and I.91裸聊视频�
The Animal Food Bank launched in Dec. 2019 and has grown from Frey delivering pet food in the Kelowna area to helping pet owners around the world feed their furry friends.
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As soon as it started, Frey says she knew she wanted it to be a national initiative.
91裸聊视频淲e ended up starting in Kelowna and then I Googled my hometown of Winnipeg and realized that there wasn91裸聊视频檛 one there. So, we flew out to Winnipeg to start that in Feb. of 2020. The intention was to spread across Canada as quickly as we could, but then COVID hit and we kind of hunkered down with Western Canada as our focus.91裸聊视频�
Since then, Frey says they91裸聊视频檝e launched in Calgary and in Medicine Hat where she now lives, but deliveries have gone even further.
91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檝e delivered all across the globe actually. We get requests from Thailand and Ireland and India and New Zealand, we91裸聊视频檝e done a delivery in New Zealand.91裸聊视频�
Frey says the work she91裸聊视频檚 done has proven the need for an animal food bank is global and doesn91裸聊视频檛 discriminate.
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At that time Frey says they went wherever they were needed, filling in gaps that other organizations could not.
91裸聊视频淚 had a hypothesis when I started the Animal Food Bank that everybody would love everybody else91裸聊视频檚 pets like their own and we would be willing to put aside what we perceive the humans to be doing wrong in order to help the pet.91裸聊视频�
Frey and her husband AJ run the AFB completely on a volunteer basis, also owning a web design business as their source of income.
91裸聊视频淚 have an incredibly amazing, supportive husband which I wouldn91裸聊视频檛 be able to do half the things I91裸聊视频檓 doing without him. We have the poster-child relationship for a partnership and just being supportive of one another91裸聊视频� He91裸聊视频檚 also very passionate about animal welfare and cats and dogs and things like that and helping the community in general. Having my passion behind it and then AJ91裸聊视频檚 passion I think has been key.91裸聊视频�
Frey says it hardly feels like work when you love what you do.
91裸聊视频淚 have got to tell you, when 2021 happened and the floods and fires happened, and then the war broke out in Ukraine, I think we raised over $60,000 for that91裸聊视频� I was tired, like so tired, but I91裸聊视频檝e never been tired enough to want to give up.91裸聊视频�
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