Our Latest Volunteer - Imogen
Another Project Raja Volunteer has just returned home and wants to share her experiences with TOLFA supporters.
I thoroughly enjoyed my 2 months at TOLFA. The staff were wonderful and when not helping treat the animals with outstanding care and devotion or translating random words into Hindi, made me laugh and kept a constant smile on my face. They were unbelievably patient when teaching me surgical skills Indian style and I couldn’t have survived without them!
Imogen with kitten
The wide variety of cases that come through the door every day really helped my confidence in treating the dogs, cats, camels, cows, goats, monkeys, birds…. that came in without the luxury of an x-ray machine, the variety of drugs we normally have in the UK or a laboratory. Having just started my first job the experience at TOLFA has helped me hugely!
The TOLFA goat clinic
TOLFA does an amazing, and often thankless, job in caring for animals that would not normally have the care and attention most pets in the UK are used to. Despite this, the care and concern that the chai stall owners, market sellers and most people in general show for the dogs and other animals on their streets often surprised me and shows that with them and TOLFA it’s not all doom and gloom for the street animals of India.
Resident dog - 3 wheeler
Imogen Richens
November 2009
Some of Imogen’s favourite photographs
Cow with a cast
Puppy guards the puppy house
Dog with mange but on the road to recovery