It is our birthday month and all of you who follow us should know who we are.
Our Chairperson, Mrs. Hansa Roy is a retired geoscientist who has given the past twenty years of her life, time, emotions, efforts and own money to the service of stray dogs in Baroda. She believes there is no greater joy than dirtying your own hands for the cause and stays miles off social media. In her two decades of selfless service on the streets, she has been able to touch more than three thousand 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 has 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. She envisions a rabies-free Baroda where fellow human beings learn to live in harmony and symbiotic relationship with stray dogs.
