AYESHA CHUNDRIGAR FOUNDATION (ACF) was founded in 2013 as non-profit organization based in Karachi, Pakistan and is registered under the The Societies Registration Act, 1860.

ACF was created with a vision to assist marginalised and forgotten communities, animals and humans alike, to be rescued and rehabilitated, to improve their quality of life, for everyone to to have a fair chance to live their lives with dignity and respect.

ACF’s first initiative was ACF Animal Rescue; the first-of-its-kind animal rescue in Pakistan, based in Karachi for injured and abused street animals like dogs, cats and kites, working animals such as donkeys, horses, camels and farm animals like goats and cows.

The common animal we see in Pakistan is the most vulnerable segment in our society, subject to extreme violence and abuse with absolutely nothing being done for their protection. Taking care of our animals is a fundamental step in creating a civilised society. And encourages compassion and kindness to all living beings.

We built the country’s first sanctuary to give animals some relief, started a rescue ambulance with an active helpline and social media where reporters report injured animals after which our rescue team rescues and takes them to our shelter in Malir Cantt for treatment and rehabilitation.

Till end-2019, ACF has rescued more than 5,000 animals. Our shelter at this time houses more than 500 animals including cats, dogs, kites, goats and donkeys who are fed the best available healthy food and provided medical treatment and safe living environment.

A second initiative by ACF, as undertaken in every country with a large street dog population, we also conduct a mass vaccination campaign against rabies as well as TNR (trap, neuter, release) to control the dog population.

This is the only humane way of managing this problem; poisoning the dogs slowly and painfully shuts down their organs, and the poison in turn also contaminates the soil thereby harming plants, kills butterflies, insects and birds that then ruins the environment and adds to the climate change crisis we are facing globally. Rat population also increases substantially without dogs and this is all creating an imbalance in nature, the aftermath of which we will experience in years to come. The culling method also does not control population growth.

Our mission is to also spread awareness, influence legislation and run kindness campaigns simultaneously to encourage empathy and minimise the growing violence rates in society. Usually, the cases we rescue have been severely abused from people cutting off tails and ears of dogs, throwing boiling water and acid on cats to gruesome hit and run cases to donkeys beaten mercilessly and dogs’ heads burst open due to being pelted by stones. Daily, at least 5-15 rescues as such come in.

We also hold equine medical camps, where our team goes out to different donkey/equine populated areas of Karachi and brick kilns near Islamabad to provide FREE medical treatment, food and water to the donkeys and to educate the owner on donkey behaviour and donkey handling. We also explain to the owners how treating their animals better will help them in the long run as a donkey is a donkey owner’s sole source of income. Such learning is carried out via social mobilization, capacity building and community awareness programmes alongside FREE medical treatment for the people/children in the neglected brick kilns.

Working animals and their owners are one of the largest and most neglected communities in the country and ACF is one of the few organizations working for their betterment. We are working closely with the Donkey Sanctuary in the UK in this regard and carried about the first national equine assessment across Pakistan.

In our workings and experience over time, ACF has developed a three dimensional model of working: helping people, animals and the environment together which is the only way to make a lasting impact. We won the WWF Green Innovation Challenge in 2018 for creating a humane donkey harness out of scraps of plastic and teach the donkey owners how to make them.

We also created an award-winning dog leash out of ghost net that inundates our oceans and kills marine animals. In this imitative, we engage and empower fishermen and women in impoverished fishing communities to extract ghost jet and braid it the way we have taught and then have our in-house team adorn the beautiful leashes that we sell locally and internationally.

Empathic education is something we emphasize on greatly; several private and public schools, special needs institutes and children recovering from drug addiction visit us. The sanctuary provides a very holistic, non-judgemental setting for both animals and children to heal from trauma. It is also the perfect platform for all children to learn true empathy and kindness.

Equal opportunities , diversity and inclusivity are imperative elements; we create job opportunities for people with special needs, the deaf, acid burn survivors, those recovering from addiction amongst others to motivate them in an all-inclusive, holistic environment to live a life of dignity and respect.

We have done all this with a small team over the last 6 years and run solely on donations. And have seen a country-wide movement of kindness and animal tights begin in Pakistan. We desperately need help to support and expand our activities, from the sanctuary where the demand is growing daily to home more abused animals to the kindness campaign that can curb the abuse from happening in the first place.

Supporting our cause is working at the roots of a much bigger problem that has been overlooked in Pakistan; the lack of empathy and the drive towards violence as the answer. We believe in treating the cause of the problem rather than the symptoms.

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Address: Suite # C3, 3rd floor, Plot # 59C, Tauheed Commercial, 24th street, phase 5, DHA, Pakistan

+92 21 38887196

Timings: 9am to 5pm

Address 1: 

Suite # C3, 3rd floor, Plot # 59C, Tauheed Commercial, 24th street, phase 5, DHA, Pakistan

+92 21 38887196

The office is open from 9am-5pm. 

Address 2: Please message us for address of shelter.

You can send donations directly to our account:

Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation

Account number: 10360081006600012

Swift Code: BAHLPKKA

Iban number: Pk33BAHL1036008100660001

Bank Al Habib, Kh-e-Hafiz Branch, Karachi

For international donations, we use the I-care Foundation and Go Fund Me. Please email us for details or click on the tab on the homepage.