“Will You Be My Animal Hero?”
Be an Animal Hero empowers and educates all ages towards compassionate action for all species of animals.
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Animal Hero Kids fosters empathy and kindness in children and teens by encouraging and recognizing compassionate and courageous acts that help all species of animals; and offering complimentary, interactive, humane education programs highlighting stories of the rescue and aid of animals in need.
Animal Hero Founder in Top 10 Influential People List
By Influential People Magazine Journalist, Jules Lavallee.
Susan Hargreaves is the Founder of Animal Hero Kids, a charity that empowers youth by providing them with school presentations that highlight animal rescue, advocacy, and promotes a cruelty-free existence by youth.
She has been an animal advocate for over 40-years and has been revered by World Leaders and Celebrities across the globe.
“Susans’ skill and ingenuity as a humane educator are vitally needed… It is precisely the type of outstanding educational programs that Susan creates that greatly benefits any community.”
Jane Goodall
Animal Rights Activist & Primatologist
Animal Hero Stars
Hear from some of our Animal Hero friends and supporters…
“I was an animal hero at 3 years old when I felt that animals had the right to live free of harm and suffering. It is vital to foster empathy and critical thinking in youth which leads to compassionate actions, and ultimately, a more peaceful world for all.”
“Animal Hero Kids Rock! It doesn’t matter how young or old you are, the good news is you can all help animals in need.”
“…I thank you and all those you work with for engaging in the important work of true citizenship… for all that you do in your community, for daring to innovate, for dreaming big, and for finding ways to create a better, kinder tomorrow.”
Read the First Lady’s letter to Susan
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Animal Hero Kids Voices for the Voiceless
By Susan Hargreaves
Power Kind-296 pages of full color, a heartwarming, inspiring and practical guidebook for all ages.
Veganza Animal Hero
By Susan Hargreaves
Author Susan Hargreaves is a 41 year veteran of the animal rights movement.. She is a kindness educator, and activist. She has rehabilitated wildlife and investigated animal cruelty in circuses and rodeos, as well as in the animal-based agriculture industry. Susan founded the youth empowering charity Animal Hero Kids to prevent the animal cruelty she has witnessed by fostering empathy and compassionate choices in youth. Annual Animal Hero Kids Awards events recognize courageous, kind, creative youth and all programs include a vegan fare component.
100 percent of the profits from this book supports the free Animal Hero Kids Kindness Education Programs.
World’s First Vegan Super Heroes Novel!
In the Veganza Animal Heroes Series-Liberation Veganza, Courage and Freedom are animal heroes rescuing all species of animals in danger. This tri-fecta of formidable plant-powered super heroes face their biggest challenges yet in this exciting saga.
“Susan Hargreaves latest creation continues her decades long work to engage the imagination and the heart to consider all species are interconnected. She understands our endless potential for adventure, magic and sanctuary as we are whisked away into the wonderful world of Veganza Animal Heroes” – Ingrid Newkirk, founder of the largest animal rights group in the world, PETA.
$7.99 plus $4 shipping.
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Animal Hero Kids ask Consumers in 2021 to sign their petition to help stop creating pandemics, cruelty, and the climate crisis.
Animal Hero Kids Voices for the Voiceless
Purchase your copy of the 2nd volume of Animal Hero Kids Voices for the Voiceless.
Veganza Animal Hero
Kindness Education
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AHK Starter Kit
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“How beautiful to equate the word “hero” with empathy and compassion for animals, qualities that children so naturally possess.”
“Veganza Animal Hero empowers youth to respect and honor nature and to never capture or hurt other animals. Veganza Animal Hero and Courage the Mermaid are exactly the type of heroes we need right now.”
Veganza charitable services
The Veganza Animal Hero Mission
Animal Hero Kids' Expansion of Free Vegan Fare Partners with Kids in Distress.
Amid the waves of the COVID pandemic, the Veganza Vanza feeds local children with partners KIDS in Distress, Tofurky, Million Dollar Vegan, and chef Jonny No Bones.
The evening culminated in an outdoor film screening and reading by the author and volunteers of Veganza Animal Hero, our newest book, now available in an e-version.
Learn more about Veganza the Animal Hero.
Veganza Vanza Drives the Message Home
The Veganza Vanza presents education programs and serves free vegan food. Ronnie V Cow is at the helm, our impossible to ignore “cow in the room” vegucator.
We Need Your Help!
The Goal of the Veganza Animal Hero claymation has Attracted Some VERY BIG voices!
Angela Means (Felicia) from the movie Friday fame. Tara Strong a power puff girl and mega voiceover star, Lori Alan from Spongebob Squarepants and Toy Story, and Gary Anthony Williams from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the recent Christmas is Canceled movie. Music by Moby.
The claymation filmmaker, Wyatt Bergwin, was in kindergarten when he saw a kindness to all animals presentation by Susan Hargreaves, he became vegan and graduated from film school twenty years later!
Popular Videos
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“Happy” Pharrell Williams (Vegan)
Our most watched video on Facebook so far this year is …We’ll Be Happy..” thanks to Pharrell Williams for writing such a wonderful song, we, the Animal Hero crew enjoyed creating our version.
Susan Hargreaves
Animal Hero Kids Founder, Author, Humane Educator and Animal Activist since 1980.
In the News | Susan Hargreaves
Palm Beach organization creates campaign to rescue animals, save planet.
Watch Susan Hargreaves, founder of Be an Animal Hero on MSN news. Be an Animal Hero is an arm of Animal Hero Kids.
Read the article at yahoo.com
Watch the video on the MSN website
Recent News
Visit our Founder’s Blog for regular Animal Hero updates.
Stars Appear for Evening Outdoor World Premiere Screenings
On April 23rd at 5:30pm, Love Always Sanctuary will open their gates and heart to an outdoor evening screening of the Heart Whisperer Film, Veganza Animal Hero Claymation, and assorted original shorts featuring animal hero youth from around the world.Only 30 tickets...
Dr. Jane Goodall, Calls on Charities To Stop Animal Gifting Programs, We at AnimalHeroKids.org agree.
LOS ANGELES (December 23, 2021) — Animal Hero Kids, the youth empowerment charity stands alongside Dr. Jane Goodall and her fellow scientists, activists, and celebrities urging world aid charities to end animal gifting.Animal gifting programs hurt gift recipients by...
The Heart Whisperer – Opening Hearts to Kindness to All Animals
Heart Whisperer for Animals The school cafeteria was hushed, two hundred and fifty elementary schoolers were rapt as they waited for the ending of one of the animal rescue stories, I was telling. “…and then the high school girls tried to buy their pigs at the auction...
A Series of Firsts
Animal Hero Kids is the first organization devoted to empowering and uniting compassionate youth.
First Animal Hero Kids summit celebrating kind, proactive youth from around the world with awards, workshops and presentations in Deerfield Beach.
Animal Hero Kids founder is the first to write a series about a female vegan super hero rescuing other animals ‘’Veganza Animal Hero’’.
The first to close down a captive marine mammal aquarium, Ocean World and halt captive animal shows at Canada’s Wonderland with investigations and direct action protest campaign.
The first to have a youth empowering guidebook utilized by Montessori schools and school districts with practical tips to help all species, “Animal Hero Kids Voices for the Voiceless” and to lead virtual lessons to accompany the books’ rescue stories.
Animal Hero Kids founder is the first to be decreed in the top 5 percent of the field of humane education by the US government standard in a category reserved for the emigration of olympic athletes.
Animal Hero Kids is the first to stop the Florida the black bear family massacre with the collaboration of other dedicated animal protection groups and individuals.
Animal Hero Kids founder was the first to host and pilot a radio series in Toronto dedicated to animal protection, “Animal Voices”, as well as the first to host radio programs in South Florida on the subject.
The first children’s coloring/activity book, “The Hare-raising Adventures of Rabbitta the III & Animal Hero Tips” used throughout South Florida schools.
The first to create a caring for wildlife badge for girl scouts.
The first to create an Annual Animal Hero Kids Awards event to recognize courageous, kind, creative youth, drawing support from celebrities including Sir Paul McCartney, Joaquin Phoenix, Jessica Chastain, Ricky Williams, John Salley and Suzy Amis-Cameron wife of James Cameron.
The first to offer free education programs with a focus on the environmental affects of animal based agriculture and to include a vegan fare activity component.
The first to create interactive, dramatizations where elementary school children role played in costumes to promote empathy for the animals they are portraying.
First to initiate an International Day of the Seal actions in 50 cities, globally.
First-Hosted and piloted the first radio series in Toronto dedicated to animal protection, Animal Voices. Hosted two radio series in South Florida on animal issues.
Help Empower to compassionate Action with our Social Media Maven Search.
If you are or know a real social media maven, please contact AnimalHeroKidsrock@gmail.com
PS looking for volunteer video editors, too!
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