Introduction

Founded in 2013, ACF was created with the vision of assisting and empowering marginalized and ignored communities that society usually deems hopeless and helpless, those communities include people and animals alike, giving them a chance to live a better quality of life.

ACF’s first initiative was the launch of the first of its kind, a unique animal rescue mission in Pakistan. Reason being, there has never been anything actively done to give street animals and labor animals such as donkeys a voice or their basic rights; they are at the lowest rung on the ladder of hopelessness.  ACF Animal Rescue undertook the task of rescuing street animals and neglected and abandoned pets that have been injured and abused, from all over Karachi. We have a state-of-the-art animal shelter where we provide animals with a safe refuge, medical treatment, and food. We actively work to better the lives of labor animals such as donkeys and aim to empower the donkey-owners as well. ACF also advocates kindness, empathy, and compassion to animals and helps people in understanding animal welfare through various projects.

ACF holds the view that we can help people and animals at the same time. And empathy is the biggest driving force behind that dream.

Projects:

- Project Empathy : Team up with children from different schools, those with special needs, the blind and deaf and children who are recovering from drug addiction to spend time with us.

- Human Harness Program:  To create refuge where there will be a vet present, ready-made feed and water available to the donkey, and a filter plant of clean water available to the owner.

- Eco-Friendly Dog Leash: In 2018, the ACF won the WWF Green Innovation Challenge by creating dog leashes out of ghost net found in the oceans. One leash is made of 0.5kg to 0.75kg of ghost net. And is extremely sturdy and strong for dogs of any size or strength. We also pay the fishermen Rs 8000 per dive (2 fishermen=1 dive) to extract the ghost net. Approximately 2 tonnes of ghost net can be retrieved in the duration of 1 dive. The fishermen then clean the net and the women have learned to bunch it up together and braid it in order to make the ghost net ropes. One leash takes between 1 to 2 hours to make.The women then line the ropes with scraps of thick cloth such as denim before our interns do the final adorning of yarn work to make the colorful leashes.