December 2022
2022 Reflections
The majority of India's some 30 million stray dogs live on the streets. Scavenging for food amid garbage heaps, dodging cars and raising litters, it's a daily battle for survival. Many fall sick or [...]
Summary 2021-2022
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 [...]
December 2021
2021 Recap
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 [...]
August 2021
2020 Recap
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 [...]
June 2020
COVID 19 – Update
Thanks to our many donors with big hearts and generous hands, CHAL was able to make three grants over the course of the lockdown these past three months to Blue Cross of India, [...]
April 2020
COVID-19 Emergency Update
Hope you and your family are well and safe. In these trying times around the world, our hearts go out to people fighting to stay healthy, struggling to get by and facing so [...]
December 2019
2019 Recap
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
January 2018
2017 Recap
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 [...]
July 2017
BCI, Chennai at Pondicherry
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. [...]
October 2016
Save Our Strays
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, [...]
Compassion Unlimited Plus Action
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 [...]