Cuban Yaileny Selema, 26, has converted her home in Nevada, in the United States, into a shelter for abandoned animals. She is a veterinary nurse and one day she decided to take a little pig to the apartment where she lived who came to the clinic where she worked sick and had nowhere to live. When the animal healed, she named it Marta and took it home, but as soon as it started to grow she realized that it needed space.
This is how, together with her boyfriend, she bought a small farm and now has five horses up for adoption, including her pony Rosita, two cows, two goats, three rabbits, two pigs, three turtles, a rooster, four dogs... They have all been picked up sick or abandoned. Everyone has had a second chance with her.
The problem is that Yaileny Selema does not receive aid from the Government and prefers not to receive it from organizations that have a reputation for making questionable use of the money they raise. That is why he seeks support from other Cubans, animal lovers, who want to help him keep tenants coming to his shelter, but also to make known the altruistic work he does. That is why she has created a platform where she spreads her work with abandoned animals (Second Chance Farm, on TikTok). From there he teaches people that animals suffer when they are abandoned and that the laws are not always in their favor.
"Each animal has a sad story or illness for which we are providing a place of retreat and love. I know that there are many people who love animals and perhaps they can help us," he toldCyberCuba.
It all started eight years ago, when Yaileny Selema started working as an assistant in a veterinary clinic. "I always saw a lot of abandonment, a lot of people who mistreat animals. I always wanted to do it (give them shelter) but I didn't have the conditions. It has been a long process," says this Havana native from San Miguel, who arrived in Florida as a teenager. Now his only dream is to continue helping and curing abandoned animals.
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