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IMPORTANT and Urgent Appeal : Just 2500 per year per person will help me care for 400+ animals.
My name is Jeny Joseph Leon Lopez, I live in Bangalore , INDIA I am a selfless soul who has been an animal activist - fighting for rights of animals - wild animals, zoo animals, working animals, pet animals and stray animals . Here is my plea:
" I have been caring for not just stray dogs and homeless cats but the odd donkey and injured owl for over 25 years. I have passionately educated orphan girls n also helped many alcoholics n drug addicts combat the addiction, taught them new skills and made them financially independent . Currently, I house 64 rescued dogs, 20 cats, some old homeless people and feed another 400 plus stray dogs and some abandoned cows and horses in and around my place in South Bangalore, India. Each such animal in my care is fed daily, vaccinated, sterilized, and taken to the vet when there is a need. It’s the sick, disabled or terminally ill animals that I find routinely on my trips to feed that end up as inmates in the 2 rented houses that has become a shelter n sanctuary.
Please help me save the lives of so many and mine from a terrible state now. I lost my job post COVID n have not yet found another. I now have NO OTHER SOURCE OF INCOME n have exhausted all my savings the past 6 months trying to maintain the vast operations.
I am humbly requesting that you really help me to go through this catastrophic situation.
" I have been caring for not just stray dogs and homeless cats but the odd donkey and injured owl for over 25 years. I have passionately educated orphan girls n also helped many alcoholics n drug addicts combat the addiction, taught them new skills and made them financially independent . Currently, I house 64 rescued dogs, 20 cats, some old homeless people and feed another 400 plus stray dogs and some abandoned cows and horses in and around my place in South Bangalore, India. Each such animal in my care is fed daily, vaccinated, sterilized, and taken to the vet when there is a need. It’s the sick, disabled or terminally ill animals that I find routinely on my trips to feed that end up as inmates in the 2 rented houses that has become a shelter n sanctuary.
Please help me save the lives of so many and mine from a terrible state now. I lost my job post COVID n have not yet found another. I now have NO OTHER SOURCE OF INCOME n have exhausted all my savings the past 6 months trying to maintain the vast operations.
I am humbly requesting that you really help me to go through this catastrophic situation.
I have been continuously looking for another job. In the meantime I need your help to continue doing the best that I can for the animals under my care. A small annual or one time amount can help a big deal. All donations will receive a receipt with gratitude. I will soon set up a trust and you can make the donations into the trust's account directly. (The accounts and expenses list along with the receipts and invoices (if any) shall be available on an annual basis for review and suggestions for the donors.) I will continue with my efforts of raising more funds and will try harder to get a job. The need is imminent, let's all come together for the benefit of more than 500 animals. ( Includes street dogs that I have been feeding since the past 21 yrs). You can reach out to me directly to help in any way possible.
ANY VOLUNTEERS IN THIS AREA (BANNERGHATA ROAD) PLEASE DO CONTACT ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET INVOLVED.
Thanking you
Yours sincerelyJeny Joseph Leon Lopez
If you want to read more about me and the sanctuary in detail, please continue reading:
"Chez Zoe" is much more than a home - it is a shelter & sanctuary to animals of different species who had suffered illness & injury, different degrees of human indifference & brutality. Often in very critical condition, with just a few days to live, Jen took them home, nursed them back to health and gave them ample reason to live. Some of them moved on to forever homes (by getting adopted by kind humans), but those that no one wanted stayed on and became part of Jen's family, with whom she now lives.
When Jen had a job, the going was still tough with so many special needs animals to feed and care for. The pandemic dealt a terrible blow to this compassionate set up. Jen lost her job and the means to looking after shelter inmates. So far, she has not been able to secure new employment. Having used all her savings in the past for her animal rescue work and other charities for needy people, she is today without any savings to continue her life saving work.
To compound her problems, Jen and her rescues are now having to contend with an eviction notice from this home of 14 years, whose environs were nurtured by Jen with plants and large trees. Even migratory birds of various species visit here. The animals enjoy rare fellowship with each other and a deep bond with Jen. Losing this warm and secure place they regard as home for an uncertain future is catastrophic possibility that can only be averted if funds reach Jen to buy the place and make it a shelter for lifetime - a place that so many animals have come to regard as home. Their fragile lives, healed by the tender care lavished on them by their selfless caretaker would be disrupted beyond measure.
From this location, Jen has also been able to daily carry out her commitment of feeding neighborhood street animals - as many as 550 at a time. She has also built up a rapport with people in the area to enable their help and harmonious relationships with neighborhood animals.
Security on this front will enable Jen to keep active in various leadership roles of Animal Welfare such as filing petitions against various cruelties, organizing animal rights protests and March, etc, her crucial investigations into animal cruelties and much more. Jen has never shied away from challenges and taking the most difficult circumstances head on. But the loss of her employment has left an intrepid lady and her dependent animals extremely vulnerable, with no assurance of their needs being met. Having helped many others when the going was easier, Jen seeks to continue giving care and comfort to vulnerable animals.
The limitation of being a single individual rather than a well established organization has never deterred Jen's mission to do the right thing by suffering animals. Give her a hand to continue to keep them secure in their present home.
8. Funds required to save this shelter by converting it to a NGO for the next 100 years - Rs 2.5 Crores
Suddenly, during these times of lock down, people the world over have realized that animals that cohabit with us also need to be fed. In India too, people have started feeding stray dogs, feral cats, birds, and wandering cows. The state of Kerala, India, has always been in the news for its hostility towards strays, including mass culling. Now, the Chief Minister of Kerala himself has mandated that stray animals and temple monkeys must be fed daily during the shut down period.
It took a disaster like this pandemic for us to turn our collective eyes compassionately towards these hapless animals around us who are neither wild, nor self-sufficient to fend for themselves. The need to feed these animals is not something that has become necessary due to lock down. There have always been kindhearted animal lovers who took it upon themselves to care for them. Only, you didn’t notice them.
Jeny Leon Lopez is one such soul who hides in plain sight among us. She has been caring for not just stray dogs and homeless cats but the odd donkey and injured owl for over twenty-five years. Currently, she houses many rescued dogs, cats, some old homeless people and feeds another 500 plus stray dogs and some abandoned cows and horses in and around her place in Bangalore, India. Each such animal in her care is fed daily, vaccinated, sterilized, and taken to the vet when there is a need. It’s the sick, disabled or terminally ill animals that she finds routinely on her trips to feed that end up as inmates in the rented house that has become a shelter.
If you’ve ever kept a dog or cat as a pet, you’ll know how much it costs to keep them fed, healthy and happy. Now multiply it by a couple of hundred times, and that’s how much Jeny has been spending, mostly out of her own earnings. That is, till she made a bad career move that left her stranded by her start-up employer just before things took a turn for the worse with the pandemic. As if that’s not bad enough, she now has to pay a higher rent, and face hostile neighbours who assume without reason that animals in her care are going to spread the feared virus all around. There are a handful of petitions filed against her of late with the authorities, despite the assurance from animal welfare bodies that dogs and cats are not the cause for the current pandemic.
The multiple battles Jeny fights now may not end soon. But she needs some respite to continue with what she has been doing all along. What she needs most is support, either in cash or kind, to care for the animals, and a corpus to build a permanent shelter in a suitably remote location that will resolve the problems she currently faces sheltering the animals in a residential area.
You too can contribute.
It took a disaster like this pandemic for us to turn our collective eyes compassionately towards these hapless animals around us who are neither wild, nor self-sufficient to fend for themselves. The need to feed these animals is not something that has become necessary due to lock down. There have always been kindhearted animal lovers who took it upon themselves to care for them. Only, you didn’t notice them.
Jeny Leon Lopez is one such soul who hides in plain sight among us. She has been caring for not just stray dogs and homeless cats but the odd donkey and injured owl for over twenty-five years. Currently, she houses many rescued dogs, cats, some old homeless people and feeds another 500 plus stray dogs and some abandoned cows and horses in and around her place in Bangalore, India. Each such animal in her care is fed daily, vaccinated, sterilized, and taken to the vet when there is a need. It’s the sick, disabled or terminally ill animals that she finds routinely on her trips to feed that end up as inmates in the rented house that has become a shelter.
If you’ve ever kept a dog or cat as a pet, you’ll know how much it costs to keep them fed, healthy and happy. Now multiply it by a couple of hundred times, and that’s how much Jeny has been spending, mostly out of her own earnings. That is, till she made a bad career move that left her stranded by her start-up employer just before things took a turn for the worse with the pandemic. As if that’s not bad enough, she now has to pay a higher rent, and face hostile neighbours who assume without reason that animals in her care are going to spread the feared virus all around. There are a handful of petitions filed against her of late with the authorities, despite the assurance from animal welfare bodies that dogs and cats are not the cause for the current pandemic.
The multiple battles Jeny fights now may not end soon. But she needs some respite to continue with what she has been doing all along. What she needs most is support, either in cash or kind, to care for the animals, and a corpus to build a permanent shelter in a suitably remote location that will resolve the problems she currently faces sheltering the animals in a residential area.
You too can contribute.
Jeny is a seasoned, genuine, selfless animal rights activist and an animal rescuer who as been saving lives of hundreds of thousand of animals since past 25 years. Today she faces huge challenges to continue her passionate work - as the lives of 100s of animals in her care is at threat. Due to the COVID19 lockdown, millions of people worldwide are losing jobs, and getting a job now seems tough. At the same time, the dream of building a WORLD CLASS shelter is been her passion since the past 6 years. Now we can make it possible - with the funds we receive here, we will create a Trust called "THE EARTHSOULS TRUST" - A Foundation. There are hundreds of lost, abandoned and sick animals in her shelter and under her care currently who will be left without support. Contribute generously to Jen's fundraiser to help her save the trusting loyal animals and for funding the acquisition of a new shelter on the outskirts of the city for the future.
Jeny’s rented place which is a home shelter is in imminent danger of closing due to a new ownership change. The old owner had to sell the place off due to cash crunch during pandemic. This has caused a huge stress as the new owner wants to demolish the place & build a residential appartment complex. Jen was managing the entire vast operations on her own till now with her salary earnings as an IT professional. Now moving out is tough due to shortage of homes which will allow so many animals plus acute shortage of funds. She has thus far been single-handedly managing and funding her shelter from her salary earnings until this day.
Jeny’s rented place which is a home shelter is in imminent danger of closing due to a new ownership change. The old owner had to sell the place off due to cash crunch during pandemic. This has caused a huge stress as the new owner wants to demolish the place & build a residential appartment complex. Jen was managing the entire vast operations on her own till now with her salary earnings as an IT professional. Now moving out is tough due to shortage of homes which will allow so many animals plus acute shortage of funds. She has thus far been single-handedly managing and funding her shelter from her salary earnings until this day.
Jeny Leon humbly requests all kind and compassionate souls to help her raise funds for her shelter .
Please come forward to donate generously to form a first time ever kind of shelter. A trust which will help all other genuine rescuers in the city and across the country, a movement that will ensure animal welfare is genuine and transparent.
She has educated orphan children, helped bring about awareness in terms of animal laws and animal rights by going to schools and colleges and educating children on animals being sentient beings, and recently even commenced avid vegan evangelism. Every month Jeny also contributes dog food and cash to poor people who have kept & adopted Indie dogs in their homes. You will never see her saying no to a rescue. Not only does she rescue and give the best rehab and care to the animals, she also give lessons and inspires.Anyone reaching out to her, is unhesitatingly helped - without once thinking of where the money will come from. Jeny empowers young rescuers and leads by example to motivate them to stay kind to animals and rescue more of them. Jeny has single handedly organised nationwide protests against animal cruelties.
Jeny Led the International & National Level Protest Against Dog Culling In KeralaJeny has been selflessly promoting animal rights, by fighting against animal cruelty, confiscating animals in dire straits, creating awareness with law makers and police, filing cases in court, raising petitions to government bodies for action, and also persevering for the past 10 years to get the animal welfare act passed in Parliament. She has conceptualized and spear-headed nationwide protests against animal cruelty practiced in many states of India. She has filed multiple petitions for the rights of wild animals, zoo animals, as well as for abandoned animals. She has been awarded for her selfless contribution to society and has been recognised nationwide and internationally for the good work she has done for the cause of animals, especially as a volunteer for many worldwide NGOs and Trusts. To re-emphasize, she has been independently engaging in this selfless work with her own earnings from her job as a salaried IT professional. Jeny has tirelessly worked for the past 23 plus years at a time when her peers & juniors were saving and investing their money, she was saving lives of innocent trusting animals. Jeny has always believed in leading by example and has been recognized as a subject matter expert and a go-to person for many new rescuers, animal lovers and pet parents. Every month Jeny also donates dog food to slum dwellers. In particular,
Jen Distributes Dog food, medication & support to slum dwellers who adopt street puppies. She ensures these puppies are healthy, vaccinated & sterilised.
Jeny is an IT professional and thus far has spent all of her earnings for the cause of animal welfare. As of this date, she never sought help from any other person or organization. On the contrary, she has consistently raised funds for other NGOs and activist movements to assist their causes. Jeny has never said no to a rescue or to a cause that called for action. Court cases, hearings, fees to lawyers ,flights to Delhi & other cities for Supreme Court hearings and FIAPO conferences, were all funded by Jeny out of her own salary income! Jeny has championed successful puppy adoptions since 1995 and till date has been instrumental in giving homes to more than 100,000 dogs and cats!!
Majority of Jen's work comes Live on Facebook thus making more people follow her real time and offer support and draw inspiration.
Today Jeny, 49, needs your urgent support - she has lost her job and has struggled for the past two months for obtain funds to run her shelter. She is literally scraping the bottom of the barrel to continue to provide quality support to 190 homeless, abandoned, aged, crippled and sick animals who live in her care. She is a fighter, and never gives up - her optimism is the reason this fund raiser has come up - to form a shelter.
Jen Distributes Dog food, medication & support to slum dwellers who adopt street puppies. She ensures these puppies are healthy, vaccinated & sterilised.
Jeny is an IT professional and thus far has spent all of her earnings for the cause of animal welfare. As of this date, she never sought help from any other person or organization. On the contrary, she has consistently raised funds for other NGOs and activist movements to assist their causes. Jeny has never said no to a rescue or to a cause that called for action. Court cases, hearings, fees to lawyers ,flights to Delhi & other cities for Supreme Court hearings and FIAPO conferences, were all funded by Jeny out of her own salary income! Jeny has championed successful puppy adoptions since 1995 and till date has been instrumental in giving homes to more than 100,000 dogs and cats!!
Majority of Jen's work comes Live on Facebook thus making more people follow her real time and offer support and draw inspiration.
Today Jeny, 49, needs your urgent support - she has lost her job and has struggled for the past two months for obtain funds to run her shelter. She is literally scraping the bottom of the barrel to continue to provide quality support to 190 homeless, abandoned, aged, crippled and sick animals who live in her care. She is a fighter, and never gives up - her optimism is the reason this fund raiser has come up - to form a shelter.
These fund are urgently needed to create a self-sustainable seed to ensure that Jeny’s shelter continues to run, irrespective of whether she has a job or not. Freedom from funds anxiety will free Jeny emotionally, thus enabling and empowering her to do much more for the welfare of abandoned, aged and sick and hurt animals.
Funds are specifically and urgently needed for the following:
1. Dog and Cat food (Including special therapy diet food for sick dogs) plus street dog food @ 70,000/- per month for 6 months = Rs 4.2 Lakhs
2. Veterinary bills (treatments, surgeries, vaccinations & hopsitalisations) - excluding long pending overdue bills @ Rs 50,000/- per month = Rs 3 lakhs
3. Shelter Rent @ Rs 60,000/- per month for 6 months
4. Electricity and Water bills @Rs 6,000/- = Rs 36,000/- for 6 months
5. Helpers and assistants salaries @ Rs 51,000/- per month = Rs 3.06 Lakhs for 6 months
6. Miscellaneous and living expenses like phone bills, food for labour and self, transport (petrol & diesel bills) ambulance bills etc. Rs 40,000/- per month = Rs 2.4 lakhs for 6 months
7. Funds to acquire a piece of land to initiate a permanent self-sustainable shelter in a low cost rural area for the future: Rs 75 Lakhs approximately - also Trust Deed is now ready to form a Trust called EarthSouls Trust.
orFunds are specifically and urgently needed for the following:
1. Dog and Cat food (Including special therapy diet food for sick dogs) plus street dog food @ 70,000/- per month for 6 months = Rs 4.2 Lakhs
2. Veterinary bills (treatments, surgeries, vaccinations & hopsitalisations) - excluding long pending overdue bills @ Rs 50,000/- per month = Rs 3 lakhs
3. Shelter Rent @ Rs 60,000/- per month for 6 months
4. Electricity and Water bills @Rs 6,000/- = Rs 36,000/- for 6 months
5. Helpers and assistants salaries @ Rs 51,000/- per month = Rs 3.06 Lakhs for 6 months
6. Miscellaneous and living expenses like phone bills, food for labour and self, transport (petrol & diesel bills) ambulance bills etc. Rs 40,000/- per month = Rs 2.4 lakhs for 6 months
7. Funds to acquire a piece of land to initiate a permanent self-sustainable shelter in a low cost rural area for the future: Rs 75 Lakhs approximately - also Trust Deed is now ready to form a Trust called EarthSouls Trust.
8. Funds required to save this shelter by converting it to a NGO for the next 100 years - Rs 2.5 Crores
The estimates given above are bare minimum estimates - vaccinations, sterilizations and many other incidental expenses have not been added.
All expenses of the funds utilized will be transparently shared with all donors.
For the future, we need to build a low cost space, and create a self-sustainable facility for the care and treatment of helpless animals. A shelter which will help rescuers when they rescue animals so they dont have to worry before rescuing as to where to take those animals.
Please donate generously to save hundreds of abandoned, sick, crippled, and aged animals - their caregiver and mother is a never say die person, who need all of us to now step up and support her to do more.
Let's together create a shelter for animals which will never refuse a rescuer.
Thank you!
All expenses of the funds utilized will be transparently shared with all donors.
For the future, we need to build a low cost space, and create a self-sustainable facility for the care and treatment of helpless animals. A shelter which will help rescuers when they rescue animals so they dont have to worry before rescuing as to where to take those animals.
Please donate generously to save hundreds of abandoned, sick, crippled, and aged animals - their caregiver and mother is a never say die person, who need all of us to now step up and support her to do more.
Let's together create a shelter for animals which will never refuse a rescuer.
Thank you!
