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1. Promoting Animal Health and Wellbeing: Shenpen Celebrates Nepali New Year with Full Sponsorship of Meals for Animals at Sneha’s Care.
   

   Shenpen is celebrating Nepali New Year by sponsoring all-day meals for over 100 resident animals at Sneha’s Care. Sneha’s Care is a non-profit animal rescue organization in Kathmandu, Nepal which works tirelessly to save the lives of animals who have been abandoned, mistreated, or neglected. This sponsorship is for the…

2. Cultivating Kindness and Compassion Towards Animals
   

   Since the inception of the Shenpen Animal Committee, our team has tried to find a way to address the suffering of water buffaloes. Hundreds of water buffalo are transported from the Indian border to Kathmandu every day to supply the market with fresh buffalo meat. While being transported on bumpy…

3. Awareness Program at School
   

    Sneha’s Care organized a School Awareness Program on Rabies (an often fatal disease here in Nepal) and its effective prevention at 15 different schools in Kathmandu in collaboration with Rangjung Yeshe Shenpen and Chance for Nepal (UK). In total, twenty one sessions were conducted in the 15 different schools of Kathmandu…

4. The Inhumane Methods of Transporting Water Buffalo:
   

   Sneha Shrestha and her organization, Sneha’s Care, have created a film that highlights the inhumane methods used in transporting water buffalo from India to Nepal. The film is called, Live Animal Transportation, and it shows the horrific conditions and torture that the animals face while being transported lengthy distances, as…

5. Vaccination Campaign 2018 With Sneha’s Care
   

   During the recent anti-rabies and distemper vaccination campaign, our project partner, Sneha’s Care, vaccinated 1,050 dogs in Godavari. More precisely, all the dogs living in Wards 3, 10, 11, and 12 at Thecho, Chapagaun, Bajrabarahi, Godavari Bus Park, Taukhel, Thaiba and Bandegaun were, without exception, vaccinated. During the vaccination project,…

6. Street Dogs Vaccination in Sankhu
   

   Stray animals, especially dogs, are common in Nepal and form a very large  population, even uncounted in many parts of the nation. Stray dogs can be found both in cities and in the country side. The number of stray dogs has been increasing seriously over the past 20 years due…

7. Saving Cows
   

   The fire broke out at Om Agriculture Farm in Gokarneshowr Municiaplity-1, Kathmandu on 17th of June, killing 81 cows, including lactating, pregnant cows and calves. As per our information source, the fire started around 11am due to an electrical short circuit. It was under control within two hours through the…

8. 2017 Annual Rabies Vaccination
   

   Street Dog Care, a local NGO with whom Shenpen works, completed their vaccination for over 1,000 dogs over two weekends between May 20-21 and May 27-28 2017. The campaign begins at Boudha Stupa and spreads to Jorpati, Mahankal, Tusal, and Pashupatinath. Each encountered dog is vaccinated, with the exception of…