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Santuario Igualdad: A place where farm animals can have a new life.

Just like dogs and cats, farm animals can have their own personalities and unique traits. Santuario Igualdad is a shelter for farm animals. Its main purpose is to rescue, welcome, and protect these animals and give them a new home. Here, animals live and grow up being loved no matter the species.

Santuario Igualdad is a profit-free institution located in El Monte, an hour distance from Santiago, Chile. In this place, animals are not treated like numbers, prey, or products. Each animal has its own name and they run freely because there are no cages. The animals that live here were rescued from the meat, milk, or egg industries.

Ariel and Marisol came up with the idea for this animal shelter after spending several years filming documentaries about the cruelty of the meat industry. Getting to know the reality that animals go through in these kinds of industries definitely changed their lives.For this reason, they decided to do something about it and created Santuario Igualdad. Now, they take care of 85 animals including cows, sheep, goats, chickens, and pigs. Despite the great number of animals and all the different needs they have, they take good care of all of them. The animal shelter was created for animals to be happy and respected.

Animal Peace

Oliva the goat and Pam, Dieguito, and Alelí the sheep live peacefully here. They are very sociable and they immediately come to greet when you go in the special yard. Special yard? Yes! They all have special needs and live in this special yard that lets them play and move freely. Some of them were born with medical problems in their bones and some others had accidents when they were little. However, everyone has their special wheel chair and lives normally.

Susie is a little pig and she arrived at the shelter when she was only three months old. She was

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