{"id":4701,"date":"2016-08-18T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T11:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karunasociety.org\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2016-08-18T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T11:54:16","slug":"the-karuna-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karunasociety.org\/demo\/the-karuna-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Karuna Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Welcome to Karuna Society for Animals and Nature, Puttaparthi, India<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karunasociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160713-13032015_Rama-12.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4791 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karunasociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160713-13032015_Rama-12-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My name is Clementien Koenegras, President of the Society and I like to tell you how Karuna Society came to life\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/karunasociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20160810-slides21.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I arrived in Puttaparthi with my husband and son in 1995, it didn\u2019t take much time for me to see the suffering of animals all around. Countless street dogs with pups, many run over by buses on the main road. Donkeys dying on the side of the main road without any help.<br \/>\nVery soon my house was full of sick animals and I was helping out on the street as much as I could. Of course, I was not the only one moved by this misery. In 1998, a small group of devotees from UK came forward to help and to provide funds. The &#8220;Animal Rescue Project Puttaparthi&#8221; was born with the help of CUPA from Bangalore. In 2000, we felt we were ready to make our own decisions and planning and Karuna Society was registered.<\/p>\n<p>Setting up\u00a0the shelter\/clinic for treatment, in-patient care and sterilizations was the first step. Then our horizon widened and we became aware of the suffering of milking animals, starving calves and illegal transports to the slaughterhouses. In 2002 we rescued the first cows and buffaloes from illegal transport. Over time we have taken into our care more than 700 head of cattle. At present, approximately 300 head of cattle are with us including donkeys, a few horses and a camel.<\/p>\n<p>Becoming more and more aware of our wider environment, we found the suffering of wildlife appalling; hunting by the local communities, droughts, electrocution of wildlife by farmers to protect their crops, there is no end to it.<\/p>\n<p>At present, we are starting the construction of our new wildlife rescue centre close to the reserve forest, for which we need more support. There, sloth bears, deer, monkeys, birds and snakes will find the care they need.<br \/>\nOn a personal note, being so intimately involved with the lives of animals has given me a very profound experience of the oneness and equality of all life forms emanating from the Divine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Karuna Society for Animals and Nature, Puttaparthi, India My name is Clementien Koenegras, President of the Society and I like to tell you how Karuna Society came to life\u2026 When I arrived in Puttaparthi with my husband and son in 1995, it didn\u2019t take much time for me to see the suffering of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[95,96,97,44,14,98,9,45,99,46,100,101,94],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices","tag-animal-rescue","tag-animal-shelter","tag-animal-welfare","tag-cats","tag-cattle","tag-cupa","tag-dogs","tag-india","tag-karuna","tag-karuna-society","tag-puttaparthi","tag-save-wildlife","tag-wildlife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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