PAWS APRIL 2012 NEWSLETTER
Edited by Shilpa Phadke
(MBA – Marketing & Finance)
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This issue contains-
1. From the Desk of Hon. President
2. Urgent Appeal
3. Rescue Notes & Cruelty Cases
4. Volunteers Who Made This Month Remarkable
5. Press & Net Corner
6 Anti-rabies Drives
7. Society Feeding / Pet Cases
8. Murbad Rescue Center Project Update
9. Conferences / Workshops / Awareness / Visitors
10. Fundraising & Donations
11. In-kind Donations
12. Your Chance to Help our Noble Cause
1. FROM THE DESK OF HONOURABLE PRESIDENT:
As everyone is aware, PAWS now treats small animals @ Murbad Rescue Center. There is huge work at our Murbad Rescue Center; we need lot of construction material, financial support to employ professional staff. Any small help is also appreciated. As you may be aware, we do not receive any Govt. grants neither we have a good corporate back-up & we are solely depend on donations from individual animal lovers & social trusts. Thank You!
Warm Regards,
Manasi Bhanage
Hon. President
2. YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE:
PAWS is always in need of funds as it is fully dependent on local donations from animal lovers, volunteers & valuable supporters like you. Even a small contribution will make a difference to the lives of the injured animals. For Direct Transfer of Donations-
Bank : ICICI Bank Ltd.
Branch : Dombivli, MIDC Branch
A/C. No. : 008801026804
Name of A/C : ‘PLANT AND ANIMALS WELFARE SOCIETY’
IFSC Code : ICIC0000088
3. OUR RESCUE NOTES & CRUELTY CASES:
Since PAWS operates in and around Dombivli-Kalyan towns of Thane district areas, team busy handling different type of rescue calls this month.
# This month, PAWS Team attended a total of __ stray cases (Average __ cases per week) including _ puppies, _ Kitten & __ Dogs. Some animals were given immediate first aid treatment and treated by our local vet Dr. Rohit Gaikwad. The rest were sent to PAWS Murbad rescue center for hospitalization.
# PAWS office was busy handling a total of __ bird cases this month, most of the birds were immediately hospitalized to Bombay SPCA after proper isolation & treated with due intimation to forest department. Bird species which were treated includes Barn Owl, Rock Pigeon, House Crow, Greater Coucal, Baillon’s Crake. __ Snake & _ Turtle also rescued.
# Total of __ wildlife rescue calls were attended successfully by Team PAWS.
4. VOLUNTEERS WHO MADE THIS MONTH REMARKABLE:
Apart from participating PAWS events & regular drives some volunteers helped PAWS in day-to-day work which was worth mentionable.
Volunteers named Sumit Yadav from Thane, Mandar Sawant & Jaya Janardanan from Dombivli, Vikram Shastri from Ambernath rescued several birds on calls received by PAWS. Volunteer Shivprasad Phadke, Sanchit More, Rohit Achrekar, Alka kulkarni, Anjali Ekbote, Aditya Vichare accompanied ambulance several times with staff for rescues. Nikita Ghag coordinated PAWS adoptions this month. Sumit made his car available for vaccination drive & also collected books from donors to add in PAWS Library. Thanks to Manish Pimple & Anusharee Parmeshwaran for rescuing dog from railway track which made with accident under train.
5. PRESS & NET CORNER:
#PAWS Founder Nilesh’s interview appeared in Sakal Newspaper Mumbai Edition on 8th April regarding issues in snake rescues, below is the link:
http://epaper.esakal.com/Sakal/8Apr2012/Normal/Mumbai/MumbaiToday/page3.htm
#PAWS Founder Nilesh’s quote taken in Maharashtra Times, Mumbai Edition’s article on snakes, below is the link:
http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/12631667.cms
# PAWS rescued a pup which met with accident, PAWS rescued, treated it & found new home for it, the story appeared in DNA Mumbai edition, below is the link!
# PAWS is always fore-front in networking, sites & social networking, to get closer to all supporters, volunteers & members PAWS has following websites, where in you can post comments, Our updated homepage:
# We have campaign websites:
http://stopequineabuse.webs.com/
# PAWS conduct many projects & activities during the year, have a look
# PAWS is also have its own TV on YouTube, You can subscribe it….
http://www.youtube.com/user/PAWSTV1
# PAWS Group is having more then 3900 subscribers on facebook, wherein they regularly receive updates on rescues
http://www.facebook.com/nileshbhanage#!/groups/pawsthane/
# PAWS also has its own page on face book, you can click on ‘LIKE’ button.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/PAWS-Dombivli/213497592009890
# PAWS is also on twitter, you can follow
https://twitter.com/#!/joinpaws
6. MONTHLY VACCINATION DRIVES FOR STRAYS:
# Anti-Rabies Drive @ Patherli Village 1st April:
PAWS volunteers Anusharee Parmeshwaran, Nikita Ghag, Rohit Achrekar & Nilesh Bhanage participated in anti-rabies drive organized at Patherli Village near Dombivli where Animal Lover Ms. Mira Desai feeds & looks after several strays. PAWS Volunteer Dr. Vivek Nandedkar administered the vaccination & Total 26 strays were vaccinated against rabies. Also 13 strays were given 7in1 vaccinations.
# Cat Vaccination Drive @ Borivali 15th April:
PAWS Team comprising of Sourabh Edwankar, Jaysharee Janardanan, Sumit Yadav, Sanchit More, Rohit Achrekar, Nisha Tellis & Nilesh Bhanage participated in Anti-Rabies drive organized @ cat shelters made by Aruna Barua & Meena Patel. Total 54 Cats & 2 Dogs were vaccinated against rabies & 1 cat treated by PAWS volunteer Dr. Vivek Nandedkar.
# 7in1 Vaccination Drive @ Iyre Road 16th April:
PAWS Volunteer Mandar Sawant, Nilesh Bhanage & Dr. Vivek Nandedkar vaccinated several strays against 7in1 @ Iyre Road as well as near Shirodkar Jewelers in Dombivli West on 16th April 2012.
# Anti-Rabies Vaccination Drive @ Panvel 29th April:
PAWS Team comprising Dr. Lalitha Gopalan with volunteers
Participated in Anti-Rabies drive organized @ PAWS Trustee Mrs. Neeta Parwatey’s place in panvel. Total __ animals were vaccinated against rabies.
This financial year till the date PAWS vaccinated ___ animals against rabies and tetanus and __ animals were treated with first aid.
7. SOCIETY FEEDING / PET CASES:
# Ms. Karuna Chaterjee own several pet animals called PAWS office on night when she was attacked by some neighboring people, when was tried to stop a boy hitting a cat. PAWS founder Nilesh immediately called several Animal Welfare Officers between Bandra to Borivali to help her in filing a FIR in police station. The story was appeared in 28th April’s DNA. Below is the link
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_versova-animal-lover-beaten-up_1681723
In past PAWS fought with her society for not allowing her pets to come down for their discharge. Her society members written to PAWS that they will not harm any animals.
# Ms. Anushree Parmeshwaran who feeds & looks after several strays in Dombivli faced lot of trouble from society people & neighboring societies. After her complaint received by PAWS office, we sent a strong letter to society & neighboring society explaining animal laws.
You may call our helpline on 9820161114 if you are harassed being an animal lover or stray’s care-taker. PAWS will extend best possible help.
8. MURBAD RESCUE CENTRE PROJECT:
In this April month PAWS Murbad Rescue Center received following no. of cases for treatment
Dogs –
Pups -
Cats –
Kitten –
Donkey -
Adoptions –
Pets for Burial -
@ PAWS Murbad Rescue Center 2 grills of 2 kennels are totally broken & its all most falling down, so we are not using them any more. Some kennels tiles are already fallen off. The entire kennel building of 14 kennels now really need repairs, we don’t have money as usual to spare for repairs or renovation. We started using place in November 2010. If we do not start repairing work now, then at the time of rainy season, the kennels will be closed down. we need your contacts or probably you start speaking to people, corporate for bigger donation. Last year we put-up plastic sheet over terrace but had not much results. We can also put-up shed there to protect from rain.
Please revert back to us asap with some new contacts or donors or will have shut down center for 4 month’s rainy season.
Our Staff & Security salary goes up to 50,000/- each month & total cost of running services for a month goes till 80,000/- which including hospital medicines, cleaning material, animals’ food etc. It is hard task for us to build this much money every month, but we do our best & pull money for our rescue operations. But we really cannot spare a single rupee for repairs & development work.
As on today we have 15 injured dogs, 2 cats & 1 donkey at Murbad Rescue Center which we care, treat, feed, give exercise.
Please spread the word… The donation in kind like medicines, kitchen utensils, dog food, cleaning material etc. is always needed also will be acknowledged.
The photos of our center are uploaded on face book, have a look
http://www.facebook.com/PAWSASIA#!/media/set/?set=a.411644419131.195744.542969131
9. CONFERENCE / WORKSHOPS / AWARENESS / VISITORS:
# PAWS Founder Nilesh called as Speaker at the 2 days NGO Seminar on Social Development Communication on April 3rd & 4th @ Whistling Woods International College which is owned by Film director Subhash Ghai. This college is located in film city having post graduation courses in Film, Television, and Animation & Media Arts. As part of their curriculum and their endeavor to make the future generation socially conscious, their MBA freshmen Batch organized a 2 days NGO’s Seminar focused on theme “Communication pattern of NGO’s through Media.” The event held @ Film City, Goregoan Campus. Nilesh gave presentation on ‘how PAWS reaches to Public via different Media’ with main points were:
P - Press/Publicity
A - Adverting & Branding
W – Web & Social Branding
S - Staging Programs & Direct Mails
You may check photos of this event on facebook in link mentioned below:
# On 17th April, PAWS founder Nilesh along with PAWS Volunteer Rohit Achrekar went to CHM College @ Ulhasnagar for an awareness program. Mr. Nilesh was called as Guest Speaker @ Zoo Fest organized by CHM College. Many colleges from thane were also participated in it including RKT College, Birla College & Khalsekar College students. The other guest Speaker was Dr. Arunan – A Scientist from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Dr. Fernandez who is head of Zoology Dept. of CHM college was host of event.
#World celebrating Earth Day on 22nd April, while PAWS called by Ingersoll Rand, Mumbai Division to celebrate Earth Day today i.e. 20 April 2012 as part of their CSR Activities. PAWS carried out following Activities:
Presentation & Awareness:
Mr. Nilesh & PAWS volunteers Chandan Kalangutkar and Rohit Achrekar given presentation to all employees on ‘Go Green’ & ‘Recyle-Reuse-Reduce’. The employees liked the concept with simple things like after eating Mango – the seeds can be used for plantation instead of throwing, Minimum usage of water in day-to-day life, tips on saving power like minimization of playing video games on TV, using chargeable batteries etc.
Sale of Eco-Friendly Merchandise:
PAWS set-up a stall to sale its Eco-friendly merchandise to employees. The merchandise include Sparrow Homes made by Recycle Wood, Hand-made Paper’s Greeting Cards made by disabled individuals, Greeting cards made out-of recycled paper, Trays made by Supari-Sheet etc.
Survey of premises to install Sparrow Homes:
Company’s employee Mr. Sourbh Edwankar took PAWS official for round on terrace garden & lawn to show us the possible place to install the sparrow homes as part of his companies direct involvement in sparrow conservation. PAWS gave 1 sparrow homes to company as sample & we hope this project will take place soon with all possible permission from respective departments.
If you would like to have such CSR activities in your corporate by PAWS then call Mr. Nilesh on 9920777536 or can e-mail on nilesh@pawsasia.org PAWS will be happy to spread awareness.
# Following Day’s posters were circulated among PAWS contacts & various e-groups for awareness purpose by PAWS during April Month.
* 4th April – World Day for Stray Animals
* 7th April – World Health Day
* 10th April – Prevent Cruelty to Animals Day
* 21st April – World Circus Day
* 24th April – World Day for Lab Animals
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10. FUNDRAISING & DONATIONS:
# PAWS put-up a merchandise stall @ Carnival @ Kids Campus on 3rd march.
# PAWS wholeheartedly thanks Karuna Charitable Trust, Ms. Bakul, Ms. Minal, Ms. Pheroza & John Abraham, Ms. Carmin, Ms. Anjoo Mahendroo, Mr. Amiit Tandon, Mrs. Prasanna & Ms. Pooja Menon for their donations this month.
11. IN KIND DONATIONS:
# On 19th March, Ritesh Donated Grocery, Dog Biscuits, 5 litters Dettol, Water pot, Steel Donation Box for PAWS Murbad Rescue Center.
# 6 Kgs. Cat Food donated to PAWS Murbad Rescue Center by Abhishek Bhowmick on 10th March.
# On 22nd March, PAWS received a parcel containing Medical equipments as donation from Worldwide Vety. Services UK.
# We wholeheartedly thank Ms. Chitrita Majumdar & whole Synchronicity Team for designing, sponsoring & donating brochures on Safe Snake Rescue, Now Helping an Animal in distress is much easier then you thought. We also thank them for producing flyer on ‘Ethical Bird Watching & Photography’ for PAWS.
PAWS accepts old cloths, newspapers, scrap & sale for these items goes for life saving work of PAWS. If you would like to donate any of these items call PAWS on 9820161114.
12. YOUR CHANCE TO HELP A NOBLE CAUSE:
Your small contribution would make a big difference! With two ambulances, trained volunteers and four staff member, being in possession of an entire animal rescue gear and medical kit, PAWS works tirelessly throughout the year. Anyone wishing to become a volunteer with PAWS or wanting to donate, may call us on 9920777536 or send us an e-mail at nilesh@pawsasia.org.
Donation Cheques /DD’s can be drawn in the name of ‘Plant & Animals Welfare Society‘ on the address given below:
PAWS
A-18, Savitri Sadan,
Dr. Mukharji Road, Near Nehru Ground,
Dombivli (East)
421201, Maharashtra, India.
As a registered NGO, PAWS will send you a receipt for all your donations at the earliest. Many thanks, Best wishes and Love from all of us.
TEAM PAWS
Plant & Animals Welfare Society – PAWS is
*Organizational Partner of the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs (ACC&D).
*Member Society of ‘Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations’ (FIAPO).
*Organizational Partner of International Bird Conservation Network (IBCN).
*Member Society of World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA), UK.
*Affiliated with Indian Chamber of Non-Governmental Organizations (ICNGO), Delhi.
*Associated with International Organization for Animal Protection (IOAP).
*Associated with Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) – UK.
*Affiliated with Worldwide Veterinary Services (WVS), UK.
*Affiliated with World Animal Net (WAN) Directory, USA.
*Registered under the Society’s Registration Act XXIX of 1960 with registration No. Maha/587-2001/Thane dated 7th July 2001, Thane.
*Registered with the Charity Commissioner as Trust vide certificate dated 11th September 2001, Thane.
*Donations are exempted from Income Tax under Section 80-G of the Income Tax Act 1961, as per Certificate no. THN/C.I.T.-1/TECH.1/80G/86/2011-12/1825.
*Registered Under section 12AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961 vide letter dated May 01, 2002. Letter No. THN/CIT-III/J&T/184/2002-Thane.
*Recognized by ‘Animal Welfare Board of India’ (AWBI), Ministry of Forests & Environment, GOVT. OF INDIA, Chennai.
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Keep up the great work. Bless you for all you do for the animals. I am an animal activist and it sad what people do to animals, they think and feel pain. They bleed like we do.