ANIMAL RIGHTS FUND

Objective

Animal Rights Fund is a nonprofit, charitable organization dedicated to saving animal lives, improving relationships between man, animal and environment, providing humane education and promoting cruelty-free vegan life style.

Achievements

Animal Rights Fund was started in April 1999, after Poornima Harish, Trustee of Animal Rights Fund witnessed the brutal & gruesome murder of street dogs by the barbaric method of electrocution at the Corporation Dog Pound, Koramangala, Bangalore City under management of CUPA. Since 1939 the Bangalore Corporation was killing 160 Dogs every day in the fond hope of eradicating Rabies and eliminating Street Dogs.

Animal Rights Fund was instrumental in campaigning with the Bangalore City Corporation on issues concerning dog welfare, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme and on May 21, 1999 the Bangalore City Corporation took the Historic step of completely stopping killing of street dogs and totally replacing it with ABC Programme.

Since inception Animal Rights Fund has grown from strength to strength, making tremendous progress in a brief span of time.

 From 50 ABCs per month in 1999 to 900 ABCs per month in 2006.
 From one ward of Bangalore in 1999 to forty three wards covering entire South Bangalore and parts of Central Bangalore by 2000. An exponential increase in geographical coverage.
 From office hours in 1999 to 24/7/365 Animal Distress Helpline in 2001 providing round-the-clock veterinary services alongwith ambulance facility.
 From ignorance to unprecedented awareness on the issue of Street Dog Population Management
 Winning court case in the High Court of Karnataka recently in favour of Street Dogs.
 Winning a court case on the issue of Circus
 From Birth Controls to complicated surgeries like amputations, treatment of wide range of cancers, hernia operations, and scores of other treatments
 Starting with treatment of street dogs, ARF’s work now encompasses Rescue, Relief and Rehabilitation of all animals and birds like rabbits, squirrels, cats, monkeys, pigeons, crows, camels, elephants, etc.
 Rescue and rehabilitation of Camels which are brought for slaughter to Bangalore.

People behind ARF

Dilip Bafna, Businessman
Poornima Harish, Freelance Journalist

Funds

Though ARF gets some part of its expenses reimbursed by the local Municipal corporation and councils. However, for major part of the expenses, ARF has to depend on donations from public, Philanthropists and Organizations.

All donations to the Trust are exempted U/S 80 G of the I T Act, 1961.

Contact details:
www.arfindia.org
info@arfindia.org