The Indian Institute of animal welfare

Indian Institute of Animal Welfare is a Public Charitable Trust registered in the year 1988. IIAW is also registered with the Animal Board of India. It can be easily called a Senior Animal Care Home because most of their cows are either aged or very sick or infirm or cancer-stricken or a accident-hit. 90% of them have been rescued from slaughter or they have been abandoned and or they have been found on the streets in an injured condition.

Being a Public Charitable Trust IIAW survives only on donations from philanthropists, animal lovers and kind-hearted people among the public.

Dr. (Miss) Sadhana Rao (75) the Managing Trustee, who has sacrificed her entire life to the cause of taking care of the abandoned/accident-hit/cancer-  stricken/terminally-ill/aged cows and other cattle. She is an FRCS from London and taken up the cause of caring for the discarded cows and other animals as her life mission.  She lives in the same goshala premises at Venkatapuram  facility. 

Dr. Rao, passed away recently. 

They have a Core Group of committed volunteers who help her in running this 

Their monthly expenses include:

In the words of their core committee member Smt. Kamala Ramamurthy, 

Apart from donations, there is always a shortfall of about Rs. 6 to 7 lakhs which we try to raise through friends, relatives and through social media. Some months we delay paying bills to the suppliers. It is a hand to mouth struggle every month. All prices are on the increase every month.