Sethubandhanam

care for chennai cows - ghoshala requires urgent support

₹9,552 of ₹50,000 raised

Background

Goh-Samrakshanam is the fore-most duty of astikas. The Indian Institute of Animal Welfare, founded by inspiring Dr. (Miss) Sadhana Rao. Indian Institute of Animal Welfare is  a Public Charitable Trust registered in the year 1988.

IIAW in Neelangarai, Chennai and the  goshala  is  in Ventapuram Village with  700 rescued cows and 150 other cattle. They thrive on donations and on a monthly basis are struggling to make ends meet. 

This campaign looks to support the sustenance of 20 cows on a monthly basis. Adopting the expenses of maintaining a cow on a monthly basis costs ₹2,000 per month. The trust run by senior citizens in Chennai is indeed a sustainer of dharma and deserves our support. 

 

Significance of this cause

Gho-samrakshanam, protection of cows is more a duty than a charity. Mahatma Gandhi aptly summarizes this as follows:

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world. And Hinduism will live so long as there are Hindus to protect the cow. – Mahatma Gandhi

 To nurture the cow and protect it is punya which will give all benefits. To neglect it is a great sin which will invite curse and there is proof for this. – His Holiness Kanchi Mahaperiyava

Gho-samrakshanam is the act of people coming together to ensure that not a single cow goes to the slaughter house and till their natural death they are given food and are sheltered in hygienic sheds – His Holiness Kanchi Mahaperiyava

The Indian Institute of Animal Welfare houses hundreds of cows including those donated to temples (which are left here for shelter) and cattle used for illegal transport which have been left here for shelter. This trust run by senior citizens and seek support to sustain the goh-shala.

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:

Cattle Feed   7 lakhs
Dry Hay        6 lakhs
Salaries & wages 5 lakhs
Admin exp, medicines, ambulance, office2 lakhs
  
Total

20 lakhs

 

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.

Details of this campaign

Sustaining a cow on a monthly basis costs ₹2,500 per month. This is a part of the trust’s Caring for Chennai’s cows. As a part of this campaign we request the support of our donors to help sustain 20 cows on a monthly basis. 

Donors are requested to peruse the website and facebook pages of the trust. Please find the links of the same:

Donors for this campaign

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₹1,000.00 9th March 2024
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Appu Pappu

₹51.00 4th March 2024
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Karpagam K

₹500.00 3rd March 2024
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Vijayalakshmi Ramkumar

₹4,000.00 17th February 2024
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Karpagam K

₹500.00 6th February 2024
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₹1,000.00 4th February 2024
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₹501.00 23rd January 2024
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Sivakumar G

₹2,000.00 22nd January 2024
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Sudha Thothathri

₹1,000.00 11th January 2024
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harini raghavan

₹2,000.00 20th December 2023
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₹500.00 1st December 2023
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Sudha Thothathri

₹2,000.00 26th October 2023
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₹501.00 25th October 2023
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₹4,000.00 3rd May 2023
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Kavitha Chandrasekaran

₹2,000.00 18th February 2023
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Mohana Jayavelu

₹2,000.00 2nd December 2022
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Harish Subramaniam

₹1,000.00 8th November 2022
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₹2,000.00 4th October 2022
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₹1,000.00 1st October 2022
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Balaji Iyengar

₹2,000.00 13th September 2022
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Geetha Sankarkumar

₹4,001.00 8th September 2022
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Srividhya Aravindan

₹4,000.00 18th July 2022
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Sankaran Ramakrishnan

₹5,800.00 28th May 2022
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₹4,000.00 26th May 2022
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₹2,000.00 26th May 2022
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₹100.00 19th May 2022
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Mathavakrishnan Kannan

₹2,000.00 15th May 2022
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₹2,000.00 3rd May 2022
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₹101.00 3rd May 2022
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Karpagam

₹2,000.00 30th April 2022
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₹2,000.00 30th April 2022
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Sankaran Ramakrishnan

₹8,000.00 25th April 2022
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Sankaran Ramakrishnan

₹4,000.00 4th April 2022
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₹2,000.00 2nd April 2022
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Hemalatha Hariharan

₹2,000.00 23rd March 2022
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₹2,000.00 11th March 2022
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Karpagam

₹2,000.00 5th March 2022
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₹2,000.00 1st March 2022