After coming across many birds in need, Vera decided to create her own wild bird rehabilitation center.
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00:00Yes, yes.
00:07For me, it's an opportunity to raise a baby or to cure a wounded bird.
00:14It's my opportunity to fly.
00:19My name is Vera, I'm 28 years old.
00:22I'm the head of the center for bird rescue in Voronezh-Don.
00:25Since I was 18 years old, I became passionate about birds.
00:35I really like the feeling when you let the bird free and give it the sky it lost.
00:44He came to me, I don't even remember the year.
00:54He was very small, bald, and he had a broken leg.
00:59His parents threw him out of the nest.
01:05Once, all these birds lived in my apartment.
01:08There was no parking lot.
01:10I used to bring crows, roe deer.
01:17As a rule, rehabilitation centers didn't take such birds.
01:21These are centers that require a very individual approach.
01:31At some point, I realized that if I want to develop, I can't do it alone.
01:41At the same time, the number of birds injured grew every year.
01:51I invited people who were interested in all this.
01:55I invited them to take part in the life of the center.
01:58I didn't regret it for a second.
02:00In fact, a very cool, very inspired team has gathered here in Voronezh-Don,
02:06thanks to which everything is working now.
02:11My name is Lena Isaeva.
02:13I help birds.
02:15There are a lot of animals.
02:17All of them need to be fed every day.
02:19Most of them need to be treated every day.
02:21Someone needs to be treated twice or three times a day.
02:25The hotline accepts applications.
02:27The volunteer provides all the necessary primary information
02:30about how to catch a bird, how to transport it.
02:41Maybe one of our missions is eco-enlightenment.
02:47We try to communicate with people.
02:49We try to talk about birds.
02:51We try to talk about what can be fed, what cannot be fed,
02:54how to help, when it is better not to touch the bird.
03:00Because, as we understand, most of the birds that come to us
03:06are somehow connected with the human factor.
03:13We are volunteers.
03:14We work on our own.
03:16We are helped by ordinary, indifferent people.