More about the Bridging Rainbows Foundation

Our Chairperson, Mrs. Hansa Roy is a retired geoscientist, who has looked after the lifetime well being of more than four thousand stray dogs over two decades in the city of Baroda, Gujarat, India. She has given the past twenty years of her life, time, emotions, efforts and own money to their service. She believes there is no greater joy than dirtying your own hands for the cause and continues to do all the groundwork herself at age sixty three. She has been able to touch more than four thousand precious canine lives (all sterilized and vaccinated against rabies) who have been and are being cared for their entire lifetime.

Single-handedly, in the absence of public participation, she had managed to attain 100% sterilisation by combing to areas, befriending stray dogs through active feeding and love, and never having a rabies incidence in any of her dogs under her care. She has filed more than a hundred police cases and has provided guidance to others, too. She attends Court hearings related to the animal cruelty cases she has filed.

Presently, she travels around about fifty kilometres every day tending to an average of three hundred stray dogs at different locations across Baroda, who are under her lifetime care. Each of her children, that is what she prefers to call them, has a name they identify themselves with and a compelling heroic story of their own. They await her, to be fed one nutritious meal in a clean bowl, have their medical needs looked after and get the love and dignity they so deserve. She is a daily constant in their otherwise unpredictable life.

With the poor facility for Animal Birth Control in Baroda at present, she struggles to get the stray dogs sterilized and continues to fight the red tape. She envisions a rabies-free Baroda where fellow human beings learn to live in harmony and symbiotic relationship with stray dogs.

Our co-founder, Dr. Kuhu Roy is a practicing nutritionist with a passion in the area of Metabolic Dysfunction associated Steatotic Liver Disease and other lifestyle disorders.

When streets get too cold and cruel for survival, she adopts those with special needs; blind, paralyzed, amputees. She believes this marginalized segment of stray dogs is worthy of love and a home.

Born out of her grief of having seen countless painful deaths in the past two decades of her service to stray dogs and the death due to negligence of her dog boss named Butter as the final nail in the coffin, she took up on the taboo and made her mission to normalize the conversation around the loss of companion animals in India. A first in India, she runs and moderates support groups for those grieving the loss of their companion animals since 2021. She proudly states that her children on three and four legs put her on the trajectory to become India’s first pet loss grief specialist.

Along with Mrs. Roy, she has co-authored Can a stray dog become man’s best friend? 5 steps to harmonious living with stray dogs decoding the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme to create awareness regarding spay and neuter. She believes that ABC is the only means to strive for man-stray dog harmony and has been requesting the Government to digitalise the scientific programme for accountability and transparency, regardless of the recently notified Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023.

Their home has always glittered with the legacy of rescued stray dogs, senior dogs and dogs with special needs; Butter, Sundae, Chamgi, Matalu, Georgina, Jalebi, Tweeky, Orange, Ronaldo, Natasha, Alisha, Bhaalu, Guchguch, Tri Babu, Kaniya, Disco, Christopher, Chhutki, Ghoplu, Baldev, Jammy, Jazz, Zenobia, Mohini, Junior, Shyam, Ascites Rani, Stephanie, Chotu, Delma, Dixa Babu, Rapunzel, Amma, Bada Kaan, Mallika, Chinki, White Collar, Mamu, Fruit Laali, Sheru, Distemper, Venus, Dharmendra and Nimmi.

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