Tree Of Life For Animals

The Camel fair is an annual ‘animal trading & selling’ event in Pushkar and sees the streets fill up with hundreds of thousands of people and many, many more animals. It’s quite a sight from a tourist point of view, but for animal welfare it’s a disaster!
Every year Help in Suffering (Jaipur) and The Brooke [...]

My name is Emer and I am a vet from Dublin, Ireland. Last year, after three years in mixed practice, I decided to go travelling. I always knew I wanted to do some volunteer work while I was away and it made sense to use my skills so I simply googled animal charities and TOLFA [...]

Education is the Key! This is a fact that TOLFA has always known.
We believe that the reason the majority of animals come through our doors is due to lack of education or fear. Lack of education leads to wounds not being treated and becoming infected, signs of illness not being reacted to quickly enough and [...]

On Friday 11th November the national India TV channel NDTV came to film at the hospital. Everyone was very excited and the staff got to show off their new uniforms from Verma Boss.

Dr Ashok being interviewed by Seema of NDTV
The show is scheduled to air in February 2012!

Here’s a beautiful and humorous insight into the animals we treat at TOLFA.
Ever felt your eyes were too big for your stomach?

Although TOLFA is primarily a charity that has been set up with the aim of helping animals, we have always been very conscious that in a country such as India, with so much human suffering, our work should also reflect this. With our Rabies eradication project and rescue project running well, our focus is [...]

With 24 hours before D-Day, Indian Trustees, Deepak and Kamoo came to the hospital to discuss final arrangements for TOLFA’s Rabies Awareness Campaign Day.
Despite the office now having an actual desk and 6 chairs, in true eclectic TOLFA style, the meeting had to take place in the Cattle Shade as Dr Ashok [...]

In October 2009, Abi Collinson, a recently qualified vet from the Royal Veterinary College and previous Project Raja volunteer will embark on a 3 month study of Rajasthani villages to find out how TOLFAs long awaited community animal health care worker (CAHW) system could or would fit into the existing veterinary system in the area.
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After the success of our first World Rabies Day celebrations in 2007, we were keen to make this years even bigger and better. We wanted maximum impact to get the important message accross - that Rabies is a 100% preventable disease.
Indian trustee and secretary, Dhairya Soni, known as Deepak made it his mission [...]

One sunny day we had a group of very excited college students walk through our gates.
The computer students of Aryan College in Ajmer had recently been to a lecture on Animal Welfare arranged by the charity Animal Aid. The lecture was a great success and detailed some of TOLFA’s work in Pushkar and Ajmer, primarily [...]