PRAYAS Team Environment Charitable Trust · Surat, Gujarat · Serving since May 2006
Rescue helpline answering now

An animal in distress can’t wait. Neither do we.

Conservation of nature and protection of environment, through education and direct action — across Surat since 2006. Animal rescue is the most urgent, visible part of that work.

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Surat’s biggest and most effective full cycle animal welfare organisation — we never hand the animal on.

Rescue calls answered across Surat city and district, 365 days a year — call +91 98251 19081.

Prayas volunteer rescuing a domestic bird in Surat

How you can help

Three ways in, depending on how much time you have.

Urgent

Report a rescue

Injured bird, stray in traffic, snake in a house, a tree being felled. For anything urgent, call the helpline first — a volunteer picks up. For non-urgent cases, file the details online.

Join in

Get involved

Volunteer at the shelter, on field rescues or with the awareness team. Or adopt instead of buying — give a rehabilitated animal a home.

Our impact, live

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Animal Lives Served
Rescued, treated, sheltered, rehabilitated or rehomed since our inception in May 2006.
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Grown Up Trees Protected
Saved from cutting, transplanted to a safe location, or saved from other threats.
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Lakhs People Touched
Awareness campaigns — kite-flying oaths in Uttarayan, less plastic, POP-free Ganesh idols, solar Holi.
Surat Tree Watch

Trees saved from cutting, transplanted to safe locations, or protected from other threats. Report illegal felling on the same helpline.

Awareness & education

Kite-string safety in Uttarayan, plastic reduction, POP-free Ganesh Utsav, solar Holi, and co-existence with wildlife — taken into schools, colleges and societies.

Major achievements

20 years of work, in brief.

Thousands of birds
Free water pots in summer

Pots distributed free and households encouraged to keep water out for birds through the hottest months.

Hundreds of kits
Snake-catching equipment, free

Manufactured and distributed at no cost to NGOs across the country, forest departments and corporate organizations.

Security staff trained
Handle snakes, don't kill them

Corporate and government security teams trained to catch and safely release snakes found on their premises.

Working with
Forest dept, fire brigade, police

Thousands of rescue operations accomplished in collaboration with the forest department, the fire brigade and the police.

Policy outcome
POP idols banned

A street-play campaign in pandals, schools and colleges enrolled lakhs of people against POP idols — authorities went on to ban them.

Co-existence
Leopards in the farms

Village outreach on living alongside leopards stopped retaliatory poisoning, and made farms safer for people too.

Reach us, any way you like

For an animal in distress, call. Everything else, pick whatever’s easiest.

Office and shelter addresses, visiting hours and map are on the Contact Us page.