NEPAL STREET ANIMAL RESCUE
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Mission Statement
Nepal Street Animal Rescue (NSAR), is a 501c3 that is dedicated to saving the street dogs of Nepal through mass sterilization, emergency treatment and advocacy. We support several animal rescue NGO's in Nepal including Sneha's Care Rescue and Shelter, Let's Care Nepal, Kathmandu Locals and more. Our main focus is mass sterilization and rabies vaccination, followed by treating emergency cases (hit and run, poisoning, TVT and mange), as well as educating Nepali students about animal welfare and humane treatment. This is not just about hands on rescue but about changing hearts and minds.
About This Cause
NSAR was founded in 2007 with the purpose of providing medical treatment to the 30,000+ street dogs in the Kathmandu Valley as well as conduct widespread sterilization and vaccinations programs. NSAR intended to build a large full-service animal hospital but in 2008 when the economy collapsed donations to foreign non-profit start-ups dried up. In order to become relevant in Nepal in the rescue field, NSAR developed several educational programs that were used in the Nepali schools relating to street dog awareness, animal compassion and care. NSAR was able to filter funds to many small Nepali run rescues to help with the costs of vaccinations drives and emergency treatments on an individual basis. In 2013, NSAR teamed up with the Bhaktapur Animal Welfare (BAWS) to help them expand their street dog rescue. NSAR raised enough money for BAWS to build some holding kennels, conduct citywide rabies vaccination programs and purchase some smaller, badly needed medical equipment. Currently NSAR is a full-fledged partner with BAWS, supporting the Nepali NGO with funds to help with the immediate aftermath of dogs that came to the rescue with devastating injuries incurred during the two massive earthquakes in April-May 2015 and its many aftershocks. NSAR is also raising money to help with the needed repairs to BAWS surgical suite (cracks in the foundation and walls due to the quakes) and to restore water to area where the dogs are kenneled. Long term, NSAR is looking for donors to help BAWS expand so that it may serve an even larger geographical area, move to a new location out of the city proper of Bhaktapur where the dogs barking won't bother the residents and be able to respond to emergencies quicker. NSAR's goal is to build a full-service animal hospital and adoption and education center. We intend to have 2 vehicles that can respond to emergency calls as well as be used to capture and transport dogs for sterilization. vaccination and possible adoption. The final component is to devise an educational program that can be used in all of the elementary schools that will promote animal welfare, care and compassion. This would extend to tours of the rescue so that the children can see that the street dogs are not a threat to them, that they have an enormous amount of value and that they too have feelings and feel pain. The children interacting with our dogs will go a long way in helping create empathy in these children for the plight of these dogs. NSAR and BAWS have also successfully helped tourists to get the needed verification of health and governmental paperwork required to ship dogs by plane to their home countries and we will continue to do so as well as promote our rescues for international adoption. We will pick up the pace in working directly with the local government to halt the systemic poisoning of the dogs as it is inhumane and as a long term solution it does NOT work. We will work with the Department of Tourism to promote the rescue and encourage tourists while visiting Bhaktapur to stop by BAWS to make a donation to help us serve more of these amazing dogs. The earthquakes have created an even more dire situation for these dogs. The dogs have lost their "homes" because people are now occupying the streets and open spaces that they once called their own. Their food and water resources have been disrupted as well that is, if you can call a garbage heap and filthy river water a resource. We are still finding dogs with crushed limbs that happened due to the debris falling during the earthquakes. We are helping those dog owners that have lost everything cover the costs of treatment for their family pets. We need help and in order to change the face of Nepal for these dogs, we need a lot of help. Our needs are small by US operating standards. BAWS can operate at full steam on $7-8,000 a month. Between NSAR's funding of BAWS and the great dedication and talent of its founder Dr. Pranav Joshi, there is no doubt in my mind that we will be successful on a major scale. The time is now to act. The need is great and growing daily. I implore you to help the street dogs of Nepal as for too many decades, the problem has only grown in size and scope and these dogs are coming quickly to a point of no return. For more information you can find BAWS on Facebook at Bhakatpur Animal Welfare Society and Nepal Street Animal Rescue at www.nepalstreetanimalrescue.com There have been two major publications featuring BAWS and NSAR and they can be found at www.gofundme.com/nepalstreetdogs. From the street dogs of Nepal, I say thank you for selecting our charity to support and for giving the street dogs of Nepal and the team that is working to help them every day, 24/7, hope.