Now begins the challenge of being able to post everyday! Hope you all are having an amazing weekend! In case you missed any of the fun posts this week, here is a recap and a wonderful Charity Org feature.
This week's charity...
Help for Animals India is a labor of love. Help Animals India (HAI) is an all-volunteer USA non-profit 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to supporting efficient and effective animal protection organizations in India.
Help Animals India seeks out the best of these under funded organizations to provide financial and practical assistance where it can make the most difference.
From one of these hardworking groups comes the story or Menaka, the abused and much less known elephant. just Like Anne, the now famous circus elephant, whose abuse video moved the netizens into action.!
Nothing highlights the tragic fate of captive elephants than the plight of Menaka, the 19-year old female elephant who was made to suffer abuse and cruelty in the name of ritual and tradition in the custody of a temple. She was used for begging, made to walk the hot asphalted roads and was denied even basic healthcare. She was made to stand in her own urine and dung the whole day and a ramshackle vehicle garage was her shelter for the night. Her plight was brought to the notice of CUPA which approached the local police station in 2004. Even as investigations were apace, the cruelty to Menaka continued unabated. The Karnataka Forest Department seized Menaka from the temple in 2007. WRRC stepped in to help Menaka by contributing to her feed and to pay the salary of her mahouts. Read more about her story here http://www.wrrcbangalore.org/projects.
Menaka now spends 16 hours every day in the Bannerghatta National Park. There she gets to socialize with her new friends - other elephants who, though captive too, are left in the park's forest to graze and forage full-time. At the rescue center, where she is brought indoors after her bath and scrub in a nearby water body, Menaka spends the day chewing on green fodder and a snack of fruits and grains before she is returned to the forest at night.http://helpanimalsindia.org/cupa.php
CUPA Bangalore Elephant project is one of the beneficiaries of Help Animals India.
Help Animals India http://www.helpanimalsindia.org/
Help Animals India on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/helpanimalsindia
Help Animals India currently distributes grants to the following hard-working groups:
- Visakha Society for Protection and Care of Animals (VSPCA), Visakhapatnam
- Hope and Animal Trust, Ranchi, Jkarkand
- Tibetan Volunteer for Animals
- MAITRI Trust Animal Care Project, Bodhgaya
- Cattitude Trust, Chennai
- JBF - Just Be Friendly Charity, Delhi and Guwathai
- CUPA Bangalore Elephant Project
- Karuna Society for Animals and Nature
- ARK – Animal Rescue Kerala
- ABC (Animal Birth Control) India
- Animal Care India
Have a great Sunday, and do check out this wonderful charity and all the rescues involved!
Great recap. I looooooove elephants. The abuse is extraordinarily sad!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Gigi! I hope my featuring these wonderful rescues will help get them some more exposure!
ReplyDeleteLove the round-up collage! :)
ReplyDeleteIt makes me so happy to see VSPCA up there in your post. :) They are my preferred charity and a portion of my Art by Susmitha Etsy store sales each month goes to them.
My first thought while reading this post was how gorgeous your food/photography is.
ReplyDeleteThen, I moved down to the sad story about the elephant. Elephants have always been my favorite animal. I don't understand how some people could ever treat them that way.
Thanks Susmitha,.. Eileen who started Help Animals India lives in Seattle.. i just found her and her wonderful charity. She visits all these rescues every year and distributes grants. and the rescues are doing some awesome work.
ReplyDeleteThanks Shannonmarie. Now Menaka is living a good life, finally a happy ending for some elephants and a start of rescues saving more and more. Its eventually a little happy ending!
lovely roundup .....
ReplyDeleteI love recap posts and what a great cause!
ReplyDeleteThank you Kalyani and Mandee!
ReplyDeleteLovely round up - Reading Water for Elephants and the gruesome tortures had me in tears!!
ReplyDeletethanks nowserving. Yes, it is very sad indeed. all that abuse for entertainment. the rescues are working really hard to raise awareness and improve conditions. Lets hope we can have a ban on elephant sin entertainment like UK.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all of the links, and for the story of Menaka. I am so glad she has been helped.
ReplyDeleteHola! I awarded you a Lieber (I know you've gotten one already but all the more proof that you're doing great work!) and I hope you don't mind but I pulled a photograph from one of your posts to illustrate why I think your blog is worthy! I really love that you include the charities and organizations.
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