The farmhouse named 'Krishna Ashram' spread across 2.5 acre in Chhatarpur was started with five stray dogs, after Singh decided to help the stray dogs in her locality get a better life
A posh farm house in the Chhatarpur area, of South Delhi has been home to over a thousand stray dogs and same number of other animals including cows, donkeys and pigs. The owner of the farm house Rita Singh has been serving these four legged animals for over 35 years now.
The farm house named ‘Krishna Ashram’spread across 2.5 acres in Chhatarpur was started with five stray dogs, after the owner, Rita Singh decided to help the stray dogs in her locality get a better life. But soon, the number of stray dogs started to increase and today it stands over a thousand. Apart from dogs, Krishna Ashram is also home to over a thousand other animals, most of them being cows, who were termed useless by the milkmen after the cows could not produce milk or suffered broken bones.
Over 150 volunteers along with four veterinary doctor are always present at the ashram to look after the four legged creatures. The volunteers also help ashram to get its new members and also to find people who can adopt the dogs. Talking to DNA, Rita Singh said, “Our sole motive is to serve the stray in need, but we welcome anyone wants to adopts these little lives. However, by far the results of adoption have been discouraging, as people come and adopt puppies but as the puppy grow there love falls and later the puppy is sent back to us.”
The ashram is being funded solely by Rita Singh with a little help from her company MESCO steel, which as part of Corporate Social Responsibility has been serving the ashram. “Average expenses of the ashram for a month racks up to about 25 lakhs and that all is being paid by me and my company, however at the age of my retirement I feel we need to open our gates for donation as well,” said Rita Singh.
Singh is now looking to get better doctors who can bring ideas to cure spinal injuries of the animals, as she feel most of animals on streets are left to die because of the spinal injuries mostly suffered after they violent attacks by the humans.
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