Our Work.
CAPE Foundation was registered on the 23rd of March 2011, as a public charitable trust, and works to improve outcomes and prospects for children, animals, plants and the environment, through workshops and projects. Some of our activities include workshops at schools and in slums, ecological awareness and practical conservation programmes in urban and suburban areas, and programmes to spread and maintain child and animal rights.
We don’t just help animals. The programs provides intensive support and builds better livelihood of each animals.
Children
Our mission is to nurture empathy in children. When children’s sensitivities are nourished, they become sensitive not only to people around them, but also to the environment they live in, and all other beings in their environment - animals and trees. As they grow up and become citizens of their nations, leaders in their organisations, they will be more mindful in their choices, more responsible while making little decisions in daily lives or big decisions for organisations and society. Our vision is to help children grow up with innocence and wisdom, and not fall into the traps of cynicism, fear and anxiety.
Animal
Without animals, this earth cannot survive and neither can humans. With loss of natural habitats because of unbridled urbanisation and growth of human settlements and shrinking forests, the population of wild animals is at threat. Many animals have already become extinct or under threat of extinction because of poaching. The increase in human-animal conflict has escalated because of their struggle to find habitats for survival. We envision finding ways of co-existence of humans and wild animals, protection of wildlife and habitats and also protection of human lives from avoidable clashes with wild animals. We must also find solutions to downscale industrial farming of animals, the health effects of which are increasingly evident in modern maladies - both physiological and psychological. We must put a stop to cruelty and torture of animals for ‘recreation and amusement’ the way we have seen animals being mistreated in places of worship or circuses. We must put an end to acts of cruelty such as burning and culling of animals who live on the streets and find more compassionate ways of controlling their populations. We must restore the kindness between domestic and pet animals and their owners which has been in the history of India, as exemplified in all religions and cultures.
Plants and environment
In the last hundred years, we have become more disconnected from nature than ever in the history of humankind. The disconnect between the urban and the rural, the concrete and the natural manifests in all modern psychological and physiological illnesses - depression and anxiety, stress, hypertension, diabetes and various other ailments. With global warming, we are at threat of agrarian crisis and food struggle. We must not only reconnect with our roots, we must also find ways of relating to plants and the environment and find out ways of protecting and replenishing the earth for plants and forests to thrive. We must learn how to grow our food without poisoning the earth and consuming toxins ourselves. The more we, and our children, re-engage with plants, trees and the environment with respect, curiosity, concern and care, the more we shall be able to find balance and harmony in ecology.
