About us
Our team goals are to help dogs in any way.
About us
Raise the Standards Team
Carina Olsson
Carina, 45, is passionate about homeless dogs. She has a background as a campaign manager with Animal Rights Sweden and later as the founder of Hundar Utan Hem, the largest rehoming organisation in Sweden if counting the number of rehomed dogs/year, and was the president of that organization for 17 years. In 2022, Carina was asked if she wanted to help realize an exciting project: building a shelter for rescue dogs in Sweden. She saw this as a unique opportunity and a chance to rehome stray dogs in a new way, where prospective adopters have the opportunity to meet the dogs in person before making a decision. Carina enthusiastically agreed to this project, and construction began. Today, Amazing Friends rehoming center is the first dog rehoming center in Sweden rehoming dogs from countries outside Sweden. Since 2024 Carina is now actively involved in helping dogs in Eastern Europe with the project Raise the Standards.
Yvette Berg Colhoun
Yvette, 57, is mainly interested in the psychology of humans and dogs, especially on topics such as stress, fear and reactivity. Her journey in the dog world started when she trained as a dog instructor in London, where she spent all her time attending courses, training dogs and teaching both groups and individuals.
In 2018, she started working at the Swedish rehoming organisation Hundar Utan Hem, where she used her insight into human psychology combined with dog psychology to rehome dogs and guide adopters and foster homes. Over the years, she has also spent time traveling to Ireland to evaluate dogs and build rescues. Over the years, she has also made several trips to Poland where a partnership was developed to help Polish dogs as well. The projects in Romania are now close to her heart and she strives to improve the situation of dogs in their home countries and develop collaborations within Europe. Yvette’s heart beats for all old senior dogs to have a last time filled with love and security.
Bini
Bini, 34, is driven by compassion for dogs and her background is the founder of Rescue Quest, an organisation that rescued, rehabilitated and rehomed street dogs in Costa Rica. She also worked previously in transporting rescued dogs from Greece to their new adopted homes across Europe and the UK. During these transports, Bini traveled through Romania many times and was shocked by the amount of dogs in desperate need.
She is committed to the mission and grateful to be able to unite forces with Raising Standards, an organisation of passionate individuals, all working together to make a bigger positive impact and change the lives of dogs around the world.
Collaboration
Partnerships help us to deliver life-saving wellbeing friendly shelter environments, prevent overpopulation, and campaign for political change.
Collaboration is at the heart of all we do. Every day we connect organisation, partners and experts so that we can go further, together. Our partners help contribute funding and resources, engage in our campaigns and programmes and join us in advocacy to bring policy and legal change for animals.
Why we collaborate
Collaboration is the key to unlocking a bigger and more significant change.
By working together, we are able to solve challenges on a much larger scale, ensuring that our collective passion and dedication results in a more significant and sustained impact on the well-being of dogs everywhere.
Our partnerships.
Collaboration is the key to unlocking a bigger and more significant change.
By working together, we are able to solve challenges on a much larger scale, ensuring that our collective passion and dedication results in a more significant and sustained impact on the well-being of dogs everywhere.
Shelters we support.
Our partnerships extend to organizations that share our values and vision for a better life for dogs.
We carefully evaluate potential reputable dog shelters by visiting /spending time / inspecting these places and interviewing the people involved, to ensure we are supporting the responsible and genuine shelters, with all donations going directly to the dogs. +Space for logos under ( already exist under ways to help )
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