Organization: ANIMAL AID UNLIMITED
Mission: Relieve animal suffering mainly in India through street animal rescue, medical treatment, sanctuary, and compassion education, by funding and providing honorary management to the Indian charity Animal Aid Charitable Trust (AACT).
Activities: Rescue & Hospital - Animal Aid rescues and provides medical treatment to street animals in Udaipur. In 2019: - We received an average of 60 rescue requests calls per day, We admitted between 20 and 30 animals each day, a total of almost 7,000 animals over the year. Spay Neuter Clinic - The ABC Center with 85 dog kennels is located in Hawala Village, 10 minutes away from the main hospital. Between 6-10 sterilization surgeries are conducted 6 days a week, depending on the need for emergency surgeries of other sorts which require our surgeon. may be present in the hospital. Street Treatment - We provide treatment to animals whose wounds or other conditions are manageable without admission to the hospital, and by doing so, we keep space available for more critical cases in hospital. Another benefit to street treatment is that our objective is to engage neighbors, feeders and guardians in applying simple treatments such as anti-fly cream so that maggots dont take hold of small wounds. Additionally, dogs who are friendly and have care-takers and need only basic treatment are now released as soon as possible. This year we tracked and treated about 30 street treatment patients at any given time and did onsite treatment and check-ups for 6-8 animals each day.First Aid Training Program - We run a program to enable and capacitate people to help animals in their own areas by teaching them skills in First Aid and animal handling. Our training and mentorship is geared towards residents of India who live in areas where there are either no, or too few, vets, paravets or facilities for treating street animals. Since 2018 Animal Aid began providing intensive week-long training in first aid for street animals, both theoretical and practical, conducted by highly experienced staff and based on internationally recognized veterinary medicine protocols Rabies Inoculation - Rabies is 100% preventable through vaccinations. In addition to the regular vaccinations we administered on all patients rescued for treatment, we vaccinated hundreds more during neighbourhood rabies drive. Sanctuary - We provide a forever-home to disabled and special-needs animals who would not be able to access food on the street or flee from traffic. In 2018-2019 our sanctuary was the permanent home to about 200 mainly-disabled animals .Community Outreach & Education - Compassion education was conducted to 2-4 school classes each week. We reached thousands of children to spread awareness about how to help rescue injured animals, dog bite prevention and compassion for. Our videos remain very popular; on Youtube our channel had 5 million subscribers by the end of 2019 and 2 billion combined views on our videos from Youtube alone and another billion from facebook.Laws and Cruelty Response - In 2019 our Cruelty Response Officer responded to 23 reports of cruelty to animals, conducting on-site investigation and reporting to the police. The cases involved abandonment of owned dogs and cases of intentional harming animals. We responded, investigated and intervened in several more reports of cruelty such as keeping owned dogs tied and failing to give proper exercise and attention.
NTEE category: International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
Secondary category: Animal-Related