(IN) P@WS Annual Awareness Report 2008-09

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During financial year 2008-09, PAWS team worked hard for the cause that

had taken-up. Sincerely put their efforts in their favorite charity.

Below is the summary of awareness & campaigns.

 

PAWS ANNUAL REPORT ON AWARENESS & CAMPAIGN 2008-09

 

A] AWARENESS & RALLIES:

 

## PAWS volunteer Sonali Bagde & Anushree Parmeshwaran conducted a small

awareness program for Khsitij School in Dombivli on 20th June, 2008. The

students enjoyed the photo interaction.

 

## 16 children from Akanksha Foundation & their teachers Rebecca Newman

& Shefali visited PAWS office on Sunday, 17th August 2008 in the

afternoon. These children live in slums, having Animal Welfare as

project undertaken by them, were delighted by the PAWS welcome. Program

drafted by Nilesh with brief introduction on PAWS working, question and

answer round next, followed by speech on 'instances of joining PAWS by

its volunteers' by Sangam, Crystal, Prathmesh & Saurabh. The next was

Beauty without Cruelty Video, break for snacks, play of PAWS video Green

Guard, explaining PAWS office work & how students, volunteers can help.

Final play of CD 'Compassionate Citizen' & interaction with Pet dog Max.

Below is the link of photographs uploaded on Orkut album.

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## Congratulations to 'Best Volunteer' Ms. Sonali Bagde & new volunteer

Mr. Avinash Bhagat for conducting 5 hours continuous awareness program

'Beauty without Cruelty' @ 'Sister Nivedita School', Dombivli. Over 375

children of 8-9-10th standard benefited from the program conducted in

all Marathi, Hindi & English mediums on 5th August.

 

 

## On 29th September, PAWS new volunteers Preeti Indurkar, Sonali Bagde,

Prathmesh Desai & Radheshyam attended the awareness program in

'Vidysagar School', Dombivli. Over 75 students from 6th Std. To 10th

Std. benefited from the same.

 

## On 2nd October, PAWS organized an awareness program at Guardian's

School in Gandhinagar, Dombivli in which more then 400 students

participated & saw the Compassionate Citizen program. PAWS volunteers

Sonali Bagde, Avinash Bhagat & Preeti Indurkar conducted the program.

 

## On 24th October, PAWS awareness program in-charge Sonali conducted a

program at St. Xavier's Classes in Kalyan on animal welfare.

Interestingly, this is the first time in the history of PAWS when a

private class has organized awareness program. We are delighted!

## PAWS awareness program In-charge Sonali & volunteers Preeti Indurkar

and Kartik conducted an awareness program in 'Navbharat School' in

Bhiwandi on 25th November 2008. This was followed by a student

interaction session.

## PAWS volunteer Parinita Joshi organized an awareness program in Holy

Angel's School on 4th December 2008. The Team comprising Nisha Mathew,

Sonali Bagde, Preeti Indurkar joined the program. Over 340 children

participated in the program.

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## PAWS awareness program In-charge Sonali & volunteers Kartick

conducted a small awareness program on 21st December 2008 at Kartick's

society in Sakharam Complex.

 

## PAWS volunteer Avinash Bhagat organized an Awareness program on 28th

December with NSS students at Mamnoli village near Murbad. Over 50

participants were shown the CD of Beauty Without Cruelty & also

different information brochures were distributed among the students.

 

## On 17th January, PAWS volunteers Parinita Joshi & Sonali Bagde

organized an awareness program in Holy Angel's School in Dombivli.

Little kids enjoyed the 'Compassionate Citizen' video.

 

## It has always been our endeavor to educate masses, involve

youngsters, and make children aware of our animal world, environment and

nature. As a part of this series, February month PAWS Awareness

in-charge Sonali Bagde & Preeti Indurkar conducted awareness programs at

Adarsh School, Dombivli East & interacted with the children.

 

On 27th March 2009, PAWS volunteers headed by Manasi Bhanage

participated in the new year rally organized by Ganesh Mandir Sansthan.

12 PAWS volunteers took part in the rally. Below is the link of the

photos uploaded on orkut.

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B] ADVERTISMENTS & CAMPAIGNS:

 

## Makar Sankranti - A festival celebrated in India, by flying kites.

But kite flying is dangerous to birds and humans alike. The thread which

is used for flying kite is coated with glass powder. It can hurt flying

birds. Before this day PAWS volunteers Mansi, Sonali, Darshak & Bhavesh

put-up posters all over the city. We whole heartedly thank Advertising

Company for their sponsorship of 150 posters across the city & also for

designing unique styles. Here is the link of photos uploaded on orkut.

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## Holi Festival - As per tradition, a day prior to 'Holi' festival,

Marathi people burn fire wood in the premises of their locality /

society. So we had a quick campaign against tree-cutting. We took

printouts of specially-made posters & pasted them in our society /

building / colonies notice board.

For this campaign more then 25 volunteers gathered together at PAWS

office for sticking posters across city. Media coverage was given to

create awareness.

Below are the photos uploaded on orkut album?

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C] PROJECTS WITH PAWS:

 

## PAWS Intern Nisha Mathew designed Tree Protection Brochure which was

pending since many years. We thank ICICI Lombard Group & Mr. Ajay

Marathe for their printing sponsorships. The brochure contains detailed

information on Tree Protection Act as well as what do while a tree is

getting cut. The brochure is available on request FREE of cost. Call

Nilesh 9920777536

 

 

D) CONFERANCES, WORKSHOP & SEMINARS:

 

## On Thursday, 22nd May, I attended a workshop organized by Distrcit

Collector of Raigad Dr. Nipun Vinayak on 'Animal Welfare & Garbage

Control' alongwith 2 PAWS volunteers Ms. Crystal Fernandes & Mr. Aashim

Maske. I was speaker for ABC Rules, Slaughter Houses & Laws, and Stray

Cattle Problem. We also played Beauty without Cruelty video, distributed

Performing animal's awareness brochure & copies of marathi Laws. There

was a huge response for the Workshop. Thanks to Roxanne Conz-Davur

of Terra Anima Trust, who made the workshop possible with her excellent

organizing skills. In Defense of Animals also joined this session in

afternoon. They had a talk on Sterilization & Animal Birth Control

Program by Goodicia Vaidya, Sudnya Patkar & Dr. Guruprasad Mahadik. Over

120 people attended the workshop, majority of whom were local policy

makers like Corporators, Animal Husbandry, Municipal Health Officers,

Police personnel, Presidents of Municipal councils & CEO's. Roxanne

taught about Banning plastic on beaches, pony & horse carts, and Garbage

control. On the second day, the topics for the workshop were

Vermi-culture, Compost, Medical Waste, Nutrition Management,

Rag-pickers, Urban Waste Management, Rain-Water Harvesting & Solid Waste

Management including E-Waste (Electrical Waste).

We hope the workshop will come out with concrete results & mainly stop

Bullock cart races which already banned by high-court. The collector's

interest & participation was amazing.

Below is the link of all photos on Orkut album:

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## Symbiosis Institute trainee Ms. Nisha Mathew who was an intern with

PAWS - participated in NGO's exhibition called 'Real Walk of Fame' where

in works of 100 NGO's was showcased at Rang-sharda Auditorium in Bandra.

PAWS work was also showcased by Nisha. Below are the photos of the event

uploaded on orkut Album

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## This year's Asia for Animals conference was held in Bali, Indonesia

between 27th - 29th August 2008. PAWS secretary Mr. Nilesh Bhanage

attended the conference. PAWS also kept a stall there, through the

donation box raised money. Post conference session on Disaster

management arranged by WSPA also attended by our secretary. This was

great event to spread awareness about PAWS & its activities. It was a

successful event.

Below is a link for snapshots of conference:

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## PAWS President Sunish Subramanian & Secretary Nilesh Bhanage attended

the 'Maharashtra State - Friends of Snakes Conference' organized by the

forest department on 28th February. It was inaugurated by State forest

minister - Mr. Babarao Pachpute wherein Mr. Nilesh & Sunish were awarded

the 'Sarpamitra ID Card'. Both were also authorized by forest department

to rescue snakes.

Below are the photos uploaded on orkut album:

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On 8th March 2009, a workshop on 'Farm animal's welfare' was organized

by FIAPO - Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organization along

with Humane Society International in Mumbai.

The seminar was attended by PAWS volunteers Avinash Bhagat, Karthick

Thevar, alongwith PAWS Founder Nilesh and volunteers & Vety. Students

Swapna Pendse & Lalitha Gopalan. Many subjects were discussed - right

from Poultry to Veganism. Click below to view the photos of the

conference.

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E] DIFFERENT DAY CELEBRATIONS:

 

## On 12/13th August - on 'World Youth Day' PAWS volunteer Prathmesh

Desai organized an awareness program at Royal College. Over 200 students

benefited from the PAWS program. Mr. Desai is a student of Royal

College. All above programs were volunteered & coordinated by Sonali

Bagde, Prathmesh Desai, Saurabh Chougule, Avinash Bhagat & Crystal

Fernandez. We can do program in your school, group, club, society, its

free! Just call us on 9820161114

 

## PAWS 'World Animals Day' celebration started from 3rd October 2008

wherein we organized many awareness programs. World Animal Day is

celebrated across the world with different awareness activities. On 4th

October PAWS secretary Mr. Nilesh Bhanage's interview was taken in IBN

Lokmat in morning bulletin from 8AM to 9AM. Nilesh briefed about how

young teams work, different activities undertaken by trust, difficulties

faced over the years

 

## PAWS best volunteers Anahita Kumar & Lalita Gopalan organized an

awareness program for school children in Veer Bhagat Singh Vidyalaya on

14th November 2008 on the event of 'Children's Day'.

 

## For 'Republic Day' - 26th January, PAWS office received a letter from

'Jan-Gan-Man CBSE School' that they are organizing a rally to create

awareness on Environmental issues. They were also planning to use an

elephant safari during the rally. Upon receiving the letter, Mansi &

Sonali immediately went to meet the school principal & urged him to

withdraw the elephant exhibition. Finally the school agreed to withdraw

the elephant ride. Then PAWS team made banners, placards, hired animal

mascots & 15 volunteers participated in Republic Day Rally. The team was

headed by Saurabh & Sonali. Volunteers Kartick Thevar, Kajal Mane,

Prathmesh Desai, Darshak Shah, Parinita & Ashni Joshi, Sanmit Raje,

Neetu John, Preeti Indurkar, Sangam Khandare & Bhavesh participated.

While Bhavesh became the rabbit mascot, Saurabh collected donations from

the nearby shop owners. It was a successful event.

We thank Mr. Abhishek Bhowmick - a well wisher of PAWS, who designed 2

huge banners for this event.

Checkout the uploaded photos on Orkut.

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## On 5th June 2008, PAWS celebrated 'World Environment Day' by

releasing 2 brochures. The first Brochure contains information about

performing animals including bears, monkeys, dogs, and mongoose fights.

The text & contents were originally produced by Beauty without Cruelty -

Pune, which were reprinted and distributed by PAWS & BWC for awareness.

The second brochure named 'Why Go Vegan?' is created by PAWS. This

brochure explains why people choose to follow a vegan lifestyle and

strive to live without contributing to animal suffering. These 2

brochures are available free of cost. If you would like to have a copy,

just e-mail us on nilesh <nilesh%40pawsasia.org>

with your address or call us on 9820161114.

 

## Every year PAWS organizes an Anti-rabies vaccination drive on World

Rabies Day 2008. This year it was held on 27 th September 2008. Local

volunteer Mr. Ramesh Iyer & his mother feed and look after more then 70

strays in Thakurli area. PAWS team comprising Crystal, Nilesh, Sangam,

Saurabh, Sheryl, Avinash & Akshay joined the drive. Over 51 strays were

vaccinated against rabies & 7 strays were given first aid. We appreciate

Mr. Ramesh Iyer for his dedication & interest in animal welfare.

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## On 6th October, 'World Habitat Day', PAWS volunteer Aashim received

25 Sparrow nest boxes donated by Children's Academy School in Malad. The

story was covered in Yuva newspaper. Below is scanned copy on Orkut.

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