Help This 18-Year-Old Activist Build A Sanctuary For Animals

Sai Vignesh is an 18-year-old animal rights activist and rescuer – and he is on a mission to help as many animals in need as possible. His love for animals started at a very early age. Inspired by his grandparents, he started feeding and caring for strays, and he soon began doing whatever possible to help animals. He turned vegan in 2016 when he realized that his lifestyle and food choices were contributing to the suffering of hundreds of animals. He is now on a mission to build a sanctuary, and has launched a campaign to help fund it. This is his story.

Meet Sai Vignesh

I have been constantly rescuing and rehoming animals in need however possible.

During the 2015 Chennai floods, I could find homes for a few rescued pups. When Chennai was stuck by Cyclone Vardah in 2016, I was able to rescue a few birds and pups from the disaster. This is how I actively got involved in animal rescues and today my house is a home to 15+ rescued dogs.

I have also housed other rescued animals (few paralyzed, few abandoned and few critically ill animals) at paid boarding centres as my house doesn’t have enough space for all of them. 

I was fortunate enough to find loving adopters for more than 150 homeless pups and kittens, and had the opportunity to rescue and get hundreds of injured/distressed animals treated.

I am trying to do my best in whatever way I can to help animals – be it through rescues, filing cases against animal abusers or by raising awareness about the importance of being compassionate to animals.

I develop websites as a ppart-timejob and the money I earn there goes to most of my rescues. My father also supports me by giving a part of his salary. Until last year, my grandfather used to help my rescues financially by offering his pension money but today he is no more.

Almighty Animal Care Trust

I started an organization named Almighty Animal Care Trust in 2017 to help animals in a more organized and better manner.

We work to make the lives of the animals better by fighting for them legally, rescuing, vaccinating and sterilizing them.

We also try our best to raise awareness among the people about how animals are equally important and that they too deserve respect in our society – they have as much right to live in this planet as we have!

Our website: wwww.almightyanimalcaretrust.org

Our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/almightyanimalcaretrust

My dream is to build a Sanctuary for animals. Since we are living in a rental house, we have faced issues with landlords over the animals we have at home and have shifted around 8 houses in the last two years. 

The lack of space is a barrier which prevents me from helping more animals, especially larger animals like cattle, donkeys, etc. Irrespective of the breed (a dog or cat or cow or hen or goat), I am keen to help as many as possible – and for that to happen, I need to build a sanctuary with a medical dispensary.

A kind-hearted donor has given us his land (around 8.23 acres) in Thiruvallur, and we have initiated the process. We now require your support to help more sentient beings. 

The estimated cost for a sanctuary with basic necessities such as rooms for animals, caretaker and a medical dispensary along with complete fencing is around Rs. 10,00,000

To begin with, we will be using 2 acres of the land for the animal sanctuary.

I would be humbled if you can come forward to help us build this sanctuary for the animals.

Ways to help:

You can donate via Milaap campaign: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/animalsanctuary

OR

You can directly transfer to our account. 

Account name: Almighty Animal Care Trust
Account no: 027505007677
IFSC code: ICIC0000275
Current account
ICICI Bank

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