Help ACF transform lives

Help Karachi’s largest animal rescue save more animals  ACF Animal Rescue is home to the first-of-its-kind animal rescue and sanctuary in Pakistan, based in Karachi, for injured and abused stray animals such as dogs and cats, wild animals like kites and monkeys and working animals such as donkeys, horses, and camels. ACF Animal Rescue is a rescue organisation and uses education to create awareness at the grass root level to change mindsets that would harness empathy for all living beings. Our History Founded in 2013, ACF started with a dream to give abused, injured and neglected animals a voice in our society. Over the years, this idea has taken shape that now consists of a sanctuary to house injured and abused animals rescued via the ACF rescue service from all over Karachi. Animals are provided shelter, medical treatment and food and emotional rehabilitation. ACF advocates kindness to animals and creates outreach programmes that aim at enabling a harmonious coexistence of animals and humans. Our Work ⚪️Animal Shelter: ACF is home to over 600 animals at any given time and has in-house vets, animal care managers, a rescue team, and a support system to ensure that our operations run smoothly and effectively. We feed the animals the best of food to help them heal and live healthy, happy lives. Dogs and cats eat twice a day with treats during the day-the diet consists of mashed canned food for new rescues that are unable to chew properly when first brought to us as they are in severe trauma and stress. Puppies and kittens have a separate diet of milk replacement formula and mashed food, tailored to specific needs. Some dogs and cats with particular internal issues have a separate dietary schedule made for them.  Donkeys eat about 3 times a day, with extra nutritional feed for energy and strength. Kites have their own diet and monkeys also eat about 3-5 times a day.  Right now, we work nonstop to raise the funds through private donors to ensure that every single animal with us is fed well and sleeps with a full belly without compromising on quality. As the need and demand for our work grows, and new rescues keep coming in daily, our food budget is our largest expense that we need the most help with-almost 650 mouths to feed daily.  ⚪️Rescue Service: ACF runs rescue service ambulances and has an active rescue helpline and social media presence where citizens can report injured animals. This is how we rescue between 10-20 animals on a daily basis.  ⚪️Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Release/Relocate (TNVR) Programme: ACF gets requests from all over Karachi and go out to vaccinate (against rabies) and neuter street dogs. This makes the streets safer for animals and humans alike. It is the most humane way of controlling the dog population that occurs all over the world. Hence ACF runs drives across the neighbourhoods of Karachi to vaccinate/neuter stray dogs and educate the public on how to coexist harmoniously with animals within our society. Currently, we have our rescue team divide up and go for TNVR twice a week, so to not upset our daily rescue operation. We are performing a civic duty single-handedly across Karachi. And introduced this concept via educational and awareness material on social media and via one-on-one conversations with the public in different areas. It has gained massive momentum over the past 2 years and we would like to expand our team in such a way to gradually cover at least a 1000 dogs per month-the stray dog problem would be resolved once and for all and we could move on to other cities in Sindh as well eventually.  ⚪️ Donkey Camps: ACF holds donkey camps where its team goes out to different donkey/equine populated areas of the city to provide medical treatment, food, and water to the donkeys and to educate their owners on donkey behaviour and donkey handling. Working animals and their owners are one of the largest and most neglected communities in the country and ACF is one of the few organizations working for their betterment. Owners are informed that treating their animals better will help them in the long run as a donkey is a donkey owner’s (daily wager) sole source of income. Such learning is carried out via social mobilization, capacity building and community awareness programmes. ACF donkey camps have gained immense popularity and the public has been educated in person and via social media on animals in a way that’s never been done before.  We only go once a week at the moment due to our limited manpower however we have been doing this for the past 7 years and would like to expand our team to create a separate team to go daily to different donkey populated areas. Only delayed in the past 2 years due to covid however we are ready to restart.  ⚪️Pakistan’s first medical camps for abused and neglected animals suffering in horrific pet markets.  In the heart of Karachi, there is a pet market on the main road that has cages stacked up on top of each other, with all kinds of animals screaming in pain or lying lifeless inside them.  Monkeys are screaming in agony, distressed and disoriented in pet markets, trapped in a tiny bird cage, not being able to even lift their heads or stand up, let alone, turn around. They are taken away as babies from their mothers and aren’t given any food or water for days on end.  Persian and Siamese cats, puppies, exotic birds, porcupine, fox, and all kinds of wildlife are trapped in cages in pet markets with no food and water, just skin and bone, dying slowly in the scorching heat of Karachi. They are seen as property, just sold from one person to another for breeding or hunting and then returned or abandoned and stolen again.  Every animal is sick-either starving, or dehydrated, burning with fever, suffering from skin and eye infections, and attacking the food when we bring some.  This has been going on for decades until we stepped in. Our team schedules Medical relief camps with the help of the government to better the condition of these pet markets. We are seeing a significant difference due to our consistency, dedication and leading by example.  ⚪️Community Outreach: ACF visits different schools, and institutes and they visit our sanctuary as well to raise awareness about animal rights and to enable people to learn empathy and compassion for those around them and more so, for themselves. ACF believes animals are the best medium for one to understand empathy and once you can tap into your emphatic nature, it creates compassion in all facets of life. Through our outreach programs and our expansion of the team, we will be able to improve our initiative that is so needed in our society to create a kinder world for our future generations.  The Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation (ACF) is a non-profit organisation registered in 2013 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860