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The idea of this Foundation came to an individual who could no longer tolerate the abuse animals on the streets suffer on a daily basis. But he lacked what all of us who love and respect animals in this country lacked, an infrastructure in place that facilitates ‘Animal Welfare’. Till very recently, he was doing what he could without this infrastructure: spreading the word, donating to emergency cases, registering his condemnation against the inhumane practices animals face at the hands of humans. And that is the spirit with which he has envisioned this foundation, instead of sparing loose change, could we spare a soul?

Some of us responded by joining him because we shared his sentiments in one major way. Pakistan is a country that has routinely dealt with its stray animal population in cruel and unnecessary ways, where the Municipal Corporation gets a complaint about noise and the nuisance street animals are, and they come and shoot or poison them. The legal grounds for this kind of method of handling these situations is based on health concerns: do these dogs have rabies? In almost 100% of the cases, the answer is no they do not. So here it is: it is both inhumane and illegal. Are we as Pakistanis, as humans, going to continue to accept this as routine procedure? No we are not. We want to spare these souls this inhumanity and cruelty.

Spare a Soul Foundation is working towards creating humane practices in managing Pakistan’s stray animal population. While it is currently working on its first project in a housing society in Rawalpindi, through negotiating with the Society’s authorities an extremely effective method known to have worked in countries like Turkey, known as Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR), it envisions larger attitudinal and policy change through making this project an example.

Volunteers and funds are needed, for the current project, and for the future of the welfare of the stray animal population of Pakistan. We can guarantee, Pakistani society doesn’t want to objectify and commodify these animals and justify being cruel to them, and just because it has for so long been indifferent to their plight, that doesn’t represent what we are capable of. We are compassionate, fierce in our fight for justice and mercy, and above all: humane. Whether it’s because some of us want to follow the principles of animal welfare enshrined in our religious beliefs or because some of us want to honor the right to life, we all have time and time again fought for the principles of humanity. We are not, and have never been, a nation to shy away from defending the rights of the voiceless, the oppressed, and the weakest members of society. And who can be more voiceless, oppressed and side-lined in this society as its weakest members than these animals? Please join us in this fight and show the stray population of our country that we have their back and they aren’t alone!