Welfare for stray Dogs

“The Welfare for Stray Dogs, also known as WSD, is an organization that works towards controlling the stray dog population in Mumbai as well as ensuring their safety. Due to the Covid-19 circumstances, we have not been able to visit the kennels or conduct any sales in person. However, instead of letting this limit us, we came up with an innovative set of ideas and methods through which we can spread awareness about WSD as an organization, as well as the ideas they propagate. We decided to conduct a series of webinars based on stray dogs – so far, we have carried out two sessions. The first session was on spreading awareness about basic information with regards to stray dogs. We talked about rabies, the body language of dogs and the current stray dog population, amongst other issues.

It was a fun and interactive webinar, conducted on Zoom. We discussed common misconceptions about stray dogs with our audience, while teaching them how to interact with unknown dogs and also help them. The aim of the first webinar was to sensitize our audience towards stray dogs. Our second webinar was a question and answers session with Mr. Abodh Aras, the CEO of WSD. Each webinar is conducted by 2 members of our group, while another 2 members handle the technical aspects like registrations. A fifth member is assigned the task of making the power-point presentation for our webinars.

We are also in the process of making a video for younger children which is once again, to spread awareness as we thought a fun video with animations might engage them more than just a presentation. Once it is ready, we will share it with the lower grades and then answer any questions they may have on the matter. We have also been working on blogs regarding matters like animal welfare laws for the WSD website. Apart from these, we are working on some new plans to continue raising awareness for WSD and are extremely excited to carry them out!”

 

- Nishkka Thakkar