Our recent updates from the field in India. Karuna Society for Animals and Nature & CHAL USA – ABC Grant In the villages surrounding the Puttaparthi region in the state of Andhra Pradesh, the Karuna team utilized the grant dollars to perform ABC-AR on several packs of male and [...]
As you bid goodbye to 2021 and close this year's charitable giving, please consider CHAL-USA for one last donation. Donate We did a combination of stray-dog feeding grants during the covid lockdown in the first half of the year and 3 ABC-AR grants in the second half. There are lot [...]
In These Hard Times, Animals Need Your Help More Than Ever 2020 has not been an easy year for people or animals worldwide. The global COVID pandemic has turned everyone’s lives around. In India, the nationwide lockdown forced wayside tea stalls in cities and villages to shutter, causing untold fiscal hardship on their [...]
We continued support to our existing grantees in 2019 with grants awarded to: SPCA - Thane, Animal Aid Unlimited - Udaipur, Blue Cross of India - Chennai and a new entrant in our grantee list, Humane Animal Society (HAS) - Coimbatore
The Blue Cross of India was a restricted grantee of CHAL this year. At its Velacheri hospital, nearly 7,000 animals were sterilized, most of them street dogs. In the Blue Cross of Pondicherry, CHAL money helped to sterilize and vaccinate nearly 1,500 dogs. CHAL’s Donation Helps Blue Cross of Hyderabad Near Its [...]
Our second project was also driven by an urgent call to action. The authorities in the union territory of Pondicherry have proposed an improbable and inhumane solution to the spike in the stray dog population. They were rounding up the stray dogs and confining them in a pound. This was in clear violation of animal [...]
We are excited to announce the launch of an ABC-AR project funded by CHAL in May 2017 and our support of another ABC-AR project that desperately needed funds. First off, a big thank you to all the donors who made this possible! We funded Kerala-based FIAPO, an apex animal rights organization that partners with a [...]
CHAL’s $1,000 grant helped us hold vaccination camps in six slums of Mumbai, where there are high concentrations of street dogs, generally viewed unfavorably by residents. Nearly 550 dogs and cats were vaccinated. That aside, Save Our Strays sterilized and vaccinated 30 more dogs at Rs.1,000 per dog and 11 cats at Rs. 35 each. [...]
Since the beginning of 2016, the CUPA Trauma & Rescue Centre, whose primary work is to pick up injured animals and house them until they are well again, has sterilized 124 dogs, vaccinated them against rabies and then released them back into the neighborhoods from where they were picked up. These surgeries are not covered [...]
