Karunashram is an animal shelter that was founded in 1999 as a unit of People for Animals,in Wardha,Maharashtra.







•To campaign for the ethical treatment of animals
•To promote veganism
•To stop the export of meat
•To set up a state-of-the-art animal hospital
•To stop the killing of stray animals
•To preserve wildlife in its natural environment
•To demand animals welfare measures
•To ban the misuse of animals in movies
•To campaign for proper animal rights laws
•To provide shelter for stray animals
•To rescue performing animals
•To make animal rights education mandatory
•To close down animal markets
•To stop the testing of drugs and cosmetics on animals
•To stop interstate trafficking of cattle
•To close down fur and leather trade
•To shut down crocodile and snake skin farms
•To protect endangered species
•To stop wildlife hunting
•To close down illegal private zoos
•To find new homes for abandoned pets
•To educate people to give up ritual sacrifice of animals
•To reveal the link between cancer and meat eating
•To stop dissection of animals in schools
•To awaken responsibility in people towards the environment.



Karunashram, as our unit is called, was founded in 1999, in Wardha (Maharashtra) and was developed as an initiative of a few young people with the intention of protecting the basic rights of animals that are ill treated, injured or abandoned.

Our organization has grown over the years and does many activities such as stray dogs’ sterilization, anti rabies programmes, first aid camps for animals, rehabilitation and adoption of abandoned animals. Besides this, the shelter is also legally authorised to treat and house wild life which it actively does.