PAWS MAY 2014 NEWSLETTER

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PAWS MAY 2014 NEWSLETTER

Edited By Team PAWS

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This Issue Contains -

1. Message from Team PAWS

2. Urgent Appeal By PAWS

3. Rescue Notes & Cruelty Cases

4. Volunteers Who Made This Month Remarkable

5. Press & Net Corner

6. Anti-Rabies Drives

7. Murbad Rescue Center News

8. Conferences / Workshops / Trainings / Awareness / Visitors

9. Fundraising & Donations

10. In-kind Donations

11. Tree Cutting / Pet Dogs / Society Feeding Cases

12. Your Chance to Help Our Noble Cause

13. Celebration & Obituaries

1. MESSAGE FROM TEAM PAWS:

A happy New Year to All of You!

We are in desperate need of an animal lover who can stay with his/her own pets @ PAWS Murbad Rescue Center. The medical need & daily feeding of those animals will be taken care-off…

Let us know if any animal lover needs such place to live, we have 2 staff quarters which can be utilized. Please inform us suitable person by calling on 9820161114.

Warm Regards,

TEAM PAWS

2. YOU’RE 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 & rescued a total of 54 stray cases (Average 13 cases per week), rescued animals including 22 pups, 26 Dogs, 5 Cats & 2 Kitten. Some animals were given immediate first aid treatment by our local vet Dr. Rohit Gaikwad. The rest were sent to PAWS Murbad Rescue Center for hospitalization according to type injuries /diseases cases received by PAWS.

# PAWS office was busy handling a total of 23 bird cases this month with average 5 birds each week, while some were released same day & most of the birds were immediately hospitalized after proper isolation & treated with due intimation to kalyan forest department. Some were admitted to Bombay SPCA. Bird species which were treated includes species like Rock Pigeons, Bulbul, Myna, Night Heron, Parakeet & Indian Pitta.

# With help from Forest Dept. of Kalyan, PAWS volunteers Mandar, Sanchit & Nilesh rescued 4 snakes from various locations of dombivli & Thakurli. The species include Rat Snake & Common Indian Cobra. The snakes safely relocated within hour’s time.

# Total of 30 wildlife rescue calls were attended in this month successfully by Team PAWS.

# Vaccinations given to strays are total 15 this month while 0 strays treated during drives.

# 1 Exotic Turtle & 5 Kittens, 1 Pup went for adoption this month. While 2 geese rehabilitated

# Total 5 surgeries were carried out, out of which 2 were Castration & 3 were of Spaying.

# Total reach to animals this month is - 126

4. VOLUNTEERS WHO MADE THIS MONTH REMARKABLE:

Thanks to all young volunteers who contributed to our cause & paws this month made remarkable….Hat’s off for Team PAWS

Help In Rescue Work:

Thanks to PAWS Volunteers Sanchit/Mandar for rescuing snakes this month. Thanks 2 Raj for extensive travelling 2 Murbad timely to help Animals. Thanks 2 Omkar also for carrying vets 2 murbad timely.

Donations, Fundraising Events & Donations Pick-ups:

We thank Omkar, Raj, Sanchit, Nisha, Bhaskar Iyer, Riddhima for help in fundraising events, Individual donation, medicines donations & donation Pickups.

5. PRESS & NET CORNER:

# PAWS is charity partner of Film AAJOBA, Watch John Abraham promoting film Ajoba!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1FXJf7zL5U#t=112

# 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, on our updated homepage:

http://www.pawsasia.org/

# We have campaign websites:

http://stopequineabuse.webs.com/

www.bancityelephants.webs.com

# PAWS conduct many projects & activities during the year, have a look

http://pawsprojects.webs.com/

www.freewebs.com/pawsproducts

http://l2c2011.wordpress.com/

# PAWS is also having its own TV on YouTube, You can subscribe it....

http://www.youtube.com/user/PAWSTV1

# PAWS Group is having more then 4000 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

PAWS Founder Nilesh also has his own fan page & facebook profile:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nilesh-Bhanage/553028591380211?ref=hl

http://www.facebook.com/nileshbhanage

6. MONTHLY VACCINATION DRIVES FOR STRAYS:

# Mid-Night Anti-Rabies Drive @ Thane By Team PAWS on 11^th May:

Team PAWS consisting of Dr. Vivek Nandedkar (B. V. Sc), PAWS Founder Nilesh & Anuradha, volunteers Mandar, Sanchit, Rahul & Sumit carried Mid-Night Anti-Rabies Vaccination drive @ Thane Station on 11th May 2014 @ 1:00AM to 3:00AM. All 11 platforms of Thane Station & east & west side areas of railway station. TEAM PAWS decided to go in mid-night when there is no trains passing & no passengers traveling so that all platform dogs are visible to vaccinate.

Thane station has history, India's first railway ran between Mumbai & Thane.

Below are the pics of event held..

In current Financial Year 2014-15 Team PAWS vaccinated 161 animals against rabies and 3 animals were treated with first aid.

In past financial year 2013-14 Team PAWS organized total 38 drives & Vaccinated total 876 animals & given first aid 21 animals.

7. MURBAD RESCUE CENTRE:

PAWS started its own rescue center spread over 1 acre @ Crystal Homes Premises @ Murbad since November 2010. We treat various injured animals, rescued animals found homes. In November 2013, Murbad Center Celebrated 3 years of successful running.

## Infrastructure Updates:

In financial year 2013-14, we have installed following things

Solar Street Lights 2 Nos.

750 Liters Water Tank Installation

Carpet for Accident Recovery Ward

In last financial year 2012-13, we have installed following things

OPD Room Renewal

Distemper Ward Making

Accident Recovery Ward Making

## Treatments:

In this March 2014 month PAWS Murbad Rescue Center received & Treated following numbers of cases:

Total In-coming Patients – 53

Dogs – 26

Pups - 21

Cats – 4

Kitten – 2

Donkey - 0

Adoptions - 0

Pets for Burial – 1

We also look after many residential animals in centre

Resident Animals Total - 17

Dogs – 3

Pups – 0

Cats – 6

Kittens - 5

Donkey - 3

Total Animals @ center in this month - Resident + Patient = 68

## Our Every Month Urgent Need:

We started using place in November 2010. Our Staff & Security salary goes up to 75,000/- each month & total cost of running services for a month goes till 1,00,000/- 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.The Rescue center in desprate need of makeover & we atleast need of 25,00,000/- to get it built in proper shape n with facilities.

Please spread the word... The donation in kind like medicines, kitchen utensils, dog food, cleaning material etc. is always needed & all in-kind donations 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

8. CONFERENCE / WORKSHOPS / AWARENESS / VISITORS:

AWARNESS WITH ROTRAY BAL-KATTA:

Rotary Club of Dombivli, East have invited PAWS to conduct Awareness program on Animals Welfare on 16th May 2014. Team PAWS, consisting of PAWS Founder Nilesh along with volunteers Mandar Sawant, Rahul Pagare, Raj Maru & Prathibha Suranji participated in event.

The event consisting of awareness lecture on Animal Welfare along with small Wildlife photography exhibition followed by question & answer round. The program Held @ Amphitheater of Rotary Garden @ Dombivli MIDC.

Below are the pics of events...

WVS TRAINING:

Our following Staff/Volunteers/Visiting Vets are attending courses @ Worldwide Veterinary Services @ Ooty

Dr. Anahita Kumar – February (Advance Surgeries)

Omkar Subramanian – March (On ABC Project Management)

Dr. Lalitha Gopalan – April (Advance Surgeries)

Pratima Kasture – May (On ABC Project Management)

AJOBA FILM:

It gives us immense pleasures 2 inform you that our charity PAWS is now officially - A Charity Partner for up-coming Marathi Film 'Aajoba' which based on Leopard-Human Conflict. Ajoba releasing on 9^th May.

Our forest dept.- after receiving a call for leopard attacking on human or coming in goregoan, borivli, vasai, thane areas, catches the leopard, keeps in cage for 12 to 15 days & simply relocates 2 any outside areas like sahyadri ranges. This unscientific technique has created more mess in conflict rather then helping 2 resolve conflicts. Dr. Vidhya Athreya has done research work on this conflict & done doctorate on it.

First time in Marathi Film world such movie has been featured & we have been approached that PAWS to be charity partner of it. The movie will be released on 9th May all across Maharashtra. A very good movie on animal as hero.

Official Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZNLbBP6Q0M

Official Website:

http://www.ajobathemovie.com/

On 2nd May, PAWS volunteers attended Red Carpet Premier of film Ajoba @ Mumbai Below are pics

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9. FUNDRAISING & DONATIONS:

Various NGO's are fighting day-to-day basis on streets to rescue animals, look after them, try n give them a better life from streets - Hunger, Cold, Heat & struggle 4 survivals. This made us also to stop think for a moment...we taken-up the cause @ larger scale & started PAWS. With thousands of hurdles facing each year, carrying compassion under PAWS Banner. People feel that NGO's must provide on-lip-call service, free service, and round-the-clock service as anytime there is an emergency with animal on street, highway & so on...
Very few think, how we must be carrying the entire show, handling daily helpline, rescue calls, wildlife rehab, services on time, staff management, getting resources like food, medicines, money etc. But some compassionate people think beyond an injured animal on street.

# PAWS Brand Merchandise Sale:

The new image of White T-Shirts are uploaded on Facebook, the link is as follows.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.171071534131.122529.542969131&type=3

The T-Shirts are on sale for Rs. 200/- each. You can send your order via replying to e-mail or calling us on our helpline 9820161114. New T-Shirts are available in S, M, L, XL sizes. We also got stock back of Black T-Shirts with original design. These T-Shirts are available in S, M, L, XL sizes. Visit PAWS office or e-mail us on nil...@pawsasia.org

# Monthly Contributions Scheme:

PAWS volunteers Jaiganesh & Brindha, Prashant P, Maneesh & Surabhi Mittal, Vasantgopi Mudaliar, Bhaskar Iyer, Omkar Subramanian, Shubhodeep Roy, Vaibhavi Shinde, Nisha Tellis, Ritesh Vora, Aquilin John & Shilpa Phadke contributed in our monthly Donation Scheme.

# Cash Donations:

We also thanks to our donors who contributed this month for various projects & Day-To-Day functioning…

Kulin Ramdas, John & Phiroza Abraham, Shilpa Harkare, Shonita Joshi, Payal Randhwa, Prashant Patil, Vijay Shah, Anuradha Ramaswamy, Shilpa Rahtekar, Prasanna Menon, Vaibhavi Shinde, Varun Khanna, Prita Agni, Manoj Lakhani, Vaishali Asangye, Rohit Subramanian, Kaizad Daruwalla, Usha & Gautam Shroff.

10. IN KIND DONATIONS:

# Following PAWS Supporters generously donated food for animals @ Murbad Center, details as follows:

· 250kgs Rice & 20kgs Dog Food – By Aarti Handoo

· 60 kgs Rice by Omkar Dahotre

· 20 kgs Rice by Vaishalee Asangye

· 20 kgs Dog Food by Bhaskar Iyer

Out of which..

· 50kgs rice donated to our staff Alka Rane for her feeding of strays personally.

# Following In-Kind donations received this year by PAWS this month.

· Medicines by Munjal Thosani

· Old cloths, rugs by donor

· 5 Gloves Boxes by Ritesh Vora

· 1 New Cage by Manasi Rastogi

· 1 six feet long imported Snake Grasper by Soma Rao

PAWS accept old cloths, newspapers, scrap, old books & from sale for these items goes for life saving work by PAWS. If you would like to donate any of these items call PAWS on 9820161114.

11. SOCIETY PET DOG / STRAY FEEDING / TREE CUTTING CASES:

# Cruelty Case of Ducks

This is second time PAWS received a complaint for rehabilitating domesticated ducks that were kept whole day in roaring heat, without food & water access to swim. Team PAWS comprising of Founder Nilesh & his daughter - Dishita, along with volunteers Raj Maru, Mandar Sawant & Omkar Sawant rescued these poor birds & relocated them in Pavna Lake @ Lonavala. Both birds were swimming hours there @ Fountain & enjoyed freedom @ lake water.

In Mission - I , we shifted 5 ducks from Parsi Agyari of Fort to same lake, today we saw those ducks were swimming freely & happily too.

Happy Tail @ PAWS Again!

Below are pics of Rescue & Rehab Mission!

In this financial year, we @ PAWS received many complaints on stray feeding issues. PAWS immedialty sent notices to concern also get forms filled from animal volunteers on feeder cards, provided them law copies & posters as well.

# On 8^th May, PAWS sent a stern notice 2 Bandra Club for stoning cats in their areas.

# Animal Lover Rupa Shah requested PAWS to send a stern notice to a society who wanna abandon society area dogs. After our notice went to them, the possible harm halted.

# PAWS sent a very strong notice to Mira-Road society who objected over animal lover’s feeding in premises.

# On 20^th May & 31^st May PAWS sent several notices to buildings of Empire State @ Chinchwad area, pune whose residents objecting over stray dogs feeding.

If you are facing problem such pl. write detials of problem in e-mail with society chairman name & address, your name & address & email us on nil...@pawsasia.org

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13. 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 nil...@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 & Tax Exemption certificate for all your donations at the earliest. Many thanks, Best wishes and Love from all of us.

TEAM PAWS

14. CELEBRATIONS & OBITUARIES:

# Our office secretary Poonam Bomble got married on 31^st May, we will her a Happy Married Life.

Plant & Animals Welfare Society - PAWS is

*Affiliated with World Wide Animal Society (WWAS), UK.

*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.

*Associated with International Organization for Animal Protection (IOAP).

*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 valid for lifetime.

*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.