Courtesy FIAPO (on behalf of IDA): Help us help animals

Courtesy FIAPO: Help us help Animals (on behalf of idaindia.org)‏

Dear IDA People, As you all know, at IDA, we are doing essential community service by looking after, sterilizing and treating strays and many other types of animals all over the city and beyond. We do the above for free. Yet we have massive costs to cover. We need your help, to help us cover our costs, so that we can reach out to more animals. Following are some of the ways in which you can help us: 1. Help us place our donation box in nice strategic locations such as lifestyle stores, bookstores, pet clinics, pet shops etc. We can provide the required letters and you can help us by getting the permissions to place the box. 2. If you are working in an office with a strength of more than 500 employees, please get us permission to put our stall in the office premises. We have a nice 6ft x 6ft x 7ft stall, with attractive merchandise such as T-shirts, coasters, mugs, keychains, journals etc to sell. 3. If you are studying in a school/ college, you can let us know when your festival dates come up and get us permissions to put up our stall. 4. If you have a child and are arranging for her/his birthday party, you can order from our range of kiddie stuff as return gifts for the guests. It will be a unique and memorable return gift - not to forget the help you are lending to the animals. 5. If you want to gift a friend/ family something on their special day, you can choose to gift something from our wide range of merchandise or even sponsor one meal or one day's meal (2 meals a day) for our dogs at the centre. We require about 70kg of rice and 15kg of dal per meal for our 500+ dogs. The cost of one meal is approx. Rs. 3000 if you wish to pay cash instead. You can also choose to donate dog food instead of dal-rice. 6. As a special day gift to yourself or your family and friends, you can also choose to gift the love of one of our resident dogs. We have 2 programs for the same - 'Sponsor a Dog’ program or 'Guardian Angel’ Program. In the 'Sponsor a Dog' Program you can sponsor any of our 19 resident dogs on our website link http://idaindia.org/sponsor.htmfor a minimum of Rs.100 each per month. In our 'Guardian Angel' Program, you can have a Shelter pet - one dog as your Shelter Pet for just Rs. 7500 per annum. This covers some of the costs of looking after the dog for one year - vaccinations, medicine when required, food, daily care and so on. For details on the dogs available for this program, you can visit our centre in Deonar or call us. Please contact us on 9920042231 or mail us on vishruti@idaindia.org for more details. Please pass on this message to your friends and family as well. Regards, Team IDA