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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Chamak chalo

The past few days have been really confusing for there was an event organized by animal lovers all over the country and it was simultaneously being conducted in Delhi,Jaipur and Hyderabad.An animal organization called CHFA which is based in Hyderabad rushed in and started chaos in facebook as they wanted all the limelight and so the main organizers were being left out.Then an argument took place and finally it ended on a bitter note with the CHFA people opting out of the event.Vijaya,Kalyan and Prashant who were the main organizers of this event didn't belong to any particular organization as such.They needed a few people who could lend a helping hand to make the event successful.They posted the information on PETA-Hyderabad group and we were ready to help them.So, Kiran,Manpreeth and me joined in as co-organizers and helped them in preparing the banners,placards,pamphlets and then we had to get the police permission from ACP,Central zone.This was taken care by Vijaya.Then we reached the place---People's Plaza,Necklace road.The media had already reached the place.So we quickly distributed the placards and banners to all the volunteers and then me and Kiran stared with the signature drive.We got around 150 signatures in all from people belonging to various walks of life.People got to know about the atrocities towards poor stray dogs at GHMC Dog pounds.
All in all it was a great event as people got to know what stray dogs in India really go through especially in those pounds where they aren't fed properly and often ill treated.In some cases they are even killed if there is no place for new dogs to fill the place.If the citizens's hard earned money is utilized in programs like ABC(Animal Birth Control) and rabies vaccinations we can see a better India with people and animals living together in harmony. So it was a great experience explaining to them our concern.Hope we got a good coverage from media as well.

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