Left to Right: Gauri Maurekhi of People for Animals Uttarkhand
(a Help Animals India grantee — read more about her outstanding work
below); Help Animals India founding director Eileen Weintraub; the
Honorable Maneka Sanjay Gandi of People for Animals (also a Help
Animals India grantee); Renee King-Sonnen of "Rowdy Girl Sanctuary"
(transforming attitudes towards cows in Texas).
Greetings to all of you caring people worldwide!
Help Animals India was honored to be a speaker at multiple events
and a sponsor of the recent Himalayan Vegan Festival in Nepal to
help spread the message of compassion. It was the largest such
festival ever in the area.
At the conference we were able to connect and network in person with
our grantees in Nepal, including Animal Nepal, Sneha's Care, SPCA
Nepal and Magic Marble Foundation which offered free spay/neuter for
any community dogs in the Kathmandu Valley.
While international speakers and participants forcefully pled the
case for veganism and for "diet change to stop climate change,"
quite another story showed itself in the streets of India and Nepal
with cows and buffaloes roaming everywhere (sadly, many will wind up
illegally trafficked) and goats and chickens cruelly kept and
awaiting slaughter. Plant-based milk alternatives are extremely
limited to nonexistent in this part of the world.
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