We're RAIN. We sterilize, vaccinate and patch up the street dogs and cats of Salem. 23,175surgeries in, ear-tips on dogs in every ward we've worked, and a register that gets longer every week.
A world where street dogs are part of the neighbourhood, not a problem to be solved. Sterilized, vaccinated, unbothered, known by name.That's the only metric that matters to us.
Every dog. No partial jobs. Population control only works if you finish what you started.
Ward by ward, weekend by weekend. We keep a list, so no street gets skipped.
Mange, wounds, fractures. What can be handled on the street stays on the street. The rest goes to a vet.
Too small, too hurt, too trusting. We find them families. No fee, just a home visit.
Every surgery. Every camp. Every dog. Reconciled with the municipal corporation, quarterly.
The work doesn't end. New litters every season. New wards every year. The dogs need someone reliable.
There's no clever trick to fixing street dog populations. You sterilize them. You vaccinate them. You pick them up when they're hurt. You find homes for the ones who can't go back. You do it every week.
That's twenty-three thousand dogs caught, anaesthetised, operated on, cared for, and put back. Each one with an entry in a register, an ear-tip, and a street to go home to. Not a metric. A dog.
A project lead in Salem. Veterinarians who scrub in six days a week. Catchers, drivers, and fosters who answer the phone when it rings.
Started RAIN in 2021. Runs the surgery register, the rescue line, the kennel, and the weekend ARV camps with the Salem Municipal Corporation. Knows every dog in the kennel by name and most of the dogs in the wards too. If something good happens for a street dog in Salem this week, it's almost certainly because she made a phone call.
Surgery lead. Trains the rest of the team on humane sterilization technique.
Handles the complicated cases. Orthopaedics, hernia repairs, post-trauma.
Runs the weekend ARV camps. Carries a kit and a cooler, ward to ward.
Looks after the dogs in our kennel through post-op recovery and release.
Second field vet for the larger weekend camps. Joined the team in late 2024.
Keeps every surgery safe. The quiet one in the OT, the loudest at lunch.
Reads the X-rays. Catches the things the rest of us miss.
Specialist consults for the hard cases. Drives down from Coimbatore on weekends.
The reason we can pick up the phone at 11pm. The reason the kennel is clean. The reason the camp in Hasthampatti happens on time. Want to join them?
Lead Engineer at Binaryveda. Looks after rainsalem.org and the tools the field team uses. IIIT-Bangalore alum, two cups of filter coffee a day.
A van, a folding table, a kennel, and the dogs who pass through. The work isn't pretty, but it's the work.
We're live in Salem today. The plan is to do this in more cities, but only when we've found the right local partner. We'd rather do one city well than five badly.
Active since 2021. 23,175 surgeries. Every weekend, a new ward: Ammapet, Hasthampatti, Suramangalam, and counting.
We're looking for the right partner: a CSR sponsor, a local vet, a corporation willing to work with us.
The model travels. Once we have two cities running well, we can support more.
Want us in your city? CSR partners, local vets, municipalities, write to us. We'll tell you what it takes.
Get in touch →Each one is already sterilized, vaccinated, and given a clean bill of health by a vet. We don't charge a fee. We just want to visit your home, meet your people, and know they're going somewhere good.
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Vet bills, vaccines, surgery slots, fuel for the rescue van. Razorpay handles the transaction, you'll get a receipt by email.
Foster a recovering puppy. Build us a spreadsheet. Take photos at a camp. There's something for everyone.
Take on a ward for the year. Bring your team to a kennel day. We'll send you a one-pager and the numbers, plain.
That's how the next rescue call finds us in time. Most of our work comes in over DMs from people who knew someone.
Rescue calls, adoption questions, CSR partnerships, press requests, volunteering. All of it lands in the same inbox. We reply in a couple of days.
Still have a question? DM us on Instagram or send us an email. We reply in a couple of days.
Instagram DM is fastest. Drop a photo, a location pin, and a line about what you saw. Someone on our team is on DMs at most hours. If the dog is in serious danger, please also call the Salem Corporation animal welfare officer while you wait for us.
Vet bills, vaccines, surgery slots, fuel for the rescue van, salaries for our veterinarians, and food for the dogs in our kennel. If you want to see how a specific donation was spent, email and we'll walk you through it.
Not yet. Our 80G and 12A paperwork is in progress. Once it comes through, every donation since registration date will qualify for a 50% deduction. We'll backfill receipts as soon as it's done.
Write to us, or DM us a bit about your home, your family, whether you have other pets. We come over for a quick visit (we're not scary, we just like meeting the people). No fee. And we stay in touch for the first month while everyone settles in.
Yes please. We run co-branded weekend camps, ward-level ARV drives, and team kennel days for any company size. Email us and we'll send the one-pager.
