TOLFA - Who We Are
We’re a small-but-passionate charity founded in 2005 between Pushkar and Ajmer, in Northern India.
Our task is to run an ever-expanding animal hospital, shelter, rabies vaccination and animal birth control programme…in a beautiful but extremely poor corner of Rajasthan.
What Our Animals Need
In short, your help.
With the smallest of donations:
- £4 can feed 12 of our rescued cows for a day
- £13 can buy 10 collars and leads for exercising our rescued street dogs
- £50 pays nurturing staff member Sharda’s salary for one month – she’s feeding the calf in the photo
- £32 pays for sterilising 20 dogs
- £160 can vaccinate 400 dogs against rabies
Sharda feeding calf
Our staff feed, clean and maintain the hospital. They rescue and release animals that have been treated and neutered. And they assist in our daily clinic for animals of impoverished local villagers. Free advice and treatment are given in every case.
Also vital to our animals is an understanding and compassion from the humans they interact with every day. So, following guidelines laid down by the World Society for the Protection of Animals , we’re undertaking an education programme in schools, villages and street communities. (This is so sorely needed. Children – through ignorance - have been known to throw acid at dogs.)
What We Do For Our Animals
At our hospital you’ll find donkeys, cows, horses, cats, buffalo, camels, monkeys, goats, sheep, birds and – of course - dogs.
We have veterinary facilities for treatment, 100 kennels, a quarantine block, a puppy house, a dog exercise yard, a cattle shade and staff quarters for 5 families
We send a mobile sterilisation/rabies vaccination unit to outlying villages and other cities in Rajasthan, and our now-famous ‘animal ambulance’ responds to calls from the public about animals in need 24 hours a day.
The famous TOLFA goat clinic
Since TOLFA began 5 years ago, 11,500 dogs in the surrounding area have been sterilised and vaccinated against rabies (India has the highest human death rate from rabies anywhere in the world). And every year, 3,000 diseased and injured animals are rescued from the streets.
In the case of ownerless animals it’s our aim, wherever possible, to return recovered animals back to the environment, from which they were rescued. Otherwise they have a permanent home at our hospital. Without the treatment and care that TOLFA offers to any animal in need, most would simply die - often in appalling circumstances and in great pain.
Street dogs in Ajmer
Again if TOLFA wasn’t here, many local people would have no access to veterinary care that could effectively save their lives as well as their animals’.
How Your Help Can Help
Both at TOLFA UK and TOLFA India, we only have tiny overheads - all our trustees are voluntary. Each donation makes a huge difference, not to us, but to those animals out there. If you can spare anything, please Donate Online
For a small fee you could join our volunteer scheme, Project Raja - either as a vet student, vet or nurturing volunteer and gain invaluable experience.
In whatever role, you can make a huge difference - working with our animals and staff and raising funds at the same time.
Please help a dog - and every other animal that needs us - have his day.
Jasper came to us in July 2007 suffering from mange
After just three months, he was the healthiest and happiest he’s ever been. And he’s still with us today. That’s him in the picture below- a living, breathing testament to the work we do.
Jasper after treatment
