Eight ways to be useful
Some cost money. Most cost twenty minutes. One of them costs nothing at all and is probably the most valuable thing on this page.
Come and stand in it
Join a feeding round
Come out once. Carry the bowls, meet the dogs, see the route. Most of our long-term volunteers came for one evening out of curiosity. No experience needed, and nobody will ask you to touch an animal you are nervous about.
WhatsApp usBecome a street guardian
This is the one that costs nothing. Take responsibility for the dogs on your own lane. Learn their faces. Notice a limp on day one. Save our number and call it. Early reporting turns a two-week treatment into a two-day one — and it is the single highest-leverage thing anyone reading this page can do.
Sign up as a guardianFoster for a few weeks
Puppies too young for the street. Dogs recovering from surgery who need a quiet floor and someone to give tablets on time. Fostering is short, defined and enormously useful — and we supply the food and medicine.
Offer to fosterLend a skill
Veterinarians and veterinary students, above all. But also: anyone with a vehicle for transport days, a photographer, someone who can edit Telugu subtitles, an accountant who can help us publish proper annual accounts, or a lawyer who understands the ABC Rules.
Tell us what you doSet up a proper feeding spot before the argument starts
Almost every feeder-versus-neighbour conflict in India is avoidable, and the ABC Rules already contain the solution. Rule 20 puts the responsibility on the residents' welfare association or apartment owners' association to arrange feeding of community animals at mutually agreed designated spots — away from children's play areas, entrances and staircases, at agreed times, kept clean.
We will come to your colony, walk the layout with you, propose a spot and a time, write it down, and explain the arrangement to both the feeders and the people who object. It takes one evening and it ends years of friction.
We will also be honest with you about genuine safety concerns, and act on them. A programme that dismisses residents is a programme that gets shut down.
What a good feeding spot looks like
- Away from children's play areas, gates and staircases
- A fixed time, agreed in writing with the association
- Steel or stone bowls, not plates or paper — collected and washed after
- Clean water available all year, ice added in summer
- Named feeders the association knows and can contact
And when there is a dispute
Rule 20(2) provides for an Animal Welfare Committee — the Chief Veterinary Officer, a police representative, an SPCA representative, a recognised welfare organisation, the local authority's veterinary officer, the complainant, and the association. An appeal lies to the State Animal Welfare Board, whose decision is final. Ask for that process rather than fighting in a WhatsApp group.
Things you can do from your phone
Sponsor a meal, a surgery or a month
₹150 feeds one dog for a month. ₹1,200 covers a whole day's feeding across the route — birthdays, anniversaries and remembrance days are how most people do it, and we film the day and send it to you. ₹1,500 covers a sterilisation with vaccination.
DonateBring the Compassion Classroom to a school
If you are a teacher, a parent, or a former student anywhere in Khammam district, introduce us to your school. The session is free, it is forty-five minutes, and since November 2025 schools are under a Supreme Court direction to run exactly this kind of awareness session anyway.
Book a sessionCorrect the story
The most damaging thing circulating about street dogs right now is misinformation — in both directions. When someone in a group chat says the Supreme Court has ordered all dogs killed, or that nothing has changed at all, send them our plain-language guide instead of arguing.
The law, plainlyWatch, share, subscribe
It sounds trivial. It is not. The channel is how people in Khammam find us when they see an injured dog, and it is the accountability record that makes strangers willing to donate. Every view makes the next rescue call more likely.
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Adopt an Indian street dog
Indian street dogs — Indies — are among the healthiest, most intelligent and most loyal dogs in the world. They are also the ones nobody wants, because a foreign breed still carries more status in most Indian households.
We do not push adoption for its own sake. A sterilised, vaccinated, well-fed dog living free on its own street is a perfectly good outcome. But some dogs genuinely cannot go back — the disabled, the very timid, the ones a colony has turned against — and for those, a home is the only answer.
If you are considering it: we will be frank with you about the animal's temperament and needs, we will ask you real questions, and we will stay in touch afterwards.
Adopting a dog is a twelve-to-fifteen year commitment involving vaccination, sterilisation, veterinary costs and daily care. Please do not enquire on impulse.
Save the number. That is genuinely step one.
Put +91 73862 30139 in your phone under something you will find in a hurry. The next time you see a dog dragging a leg on a Khammam street, you will not have to search for us.