WVS Hope
WVS Hope operates across eight states in India, delivering veterinary care, sterilisation and vaccination programmes, rescue operations and community education. Every project is built around a common goal: animals protected, communities safer, and veterinary capacity that lasts.
“We are not just treating animals — we are transforming futures and moving closer to a Rabies-Free India."
Praveen Ohal, CEO, WVS Hope
In its first year, our Aurangabad training centre treated 481 animals and ran 27 surgical and specialist courses for 198 vets and assistants. The Mission Rabies All-Terrain Clinic worked alongside the centre, reaching Nandurbar, Udgir, Karjat and Gokarna. In total we delivered 6,751 sterilisations in 2025, proof that training and treatment go hand in hand.
Our flagship training centre trained 289 vets and vet assistants across 29 courses in 2025, while treating over 10,300 animals, including 1,178 emergency rescues. Community outreach sterilised 9,247 animals and vaccinated 10,476 against rabies, and our education programmes reached 45,823 students, teachers and community members. Together, we are building a Goa where every animal is cared for.
Rabies kills someone every nine minutes — and it's entirely preventable. In 2025, Mission Rabies vaccinated over one million dogs and reached more than two million people with life-saving education, operating across Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Patiala, Pune, Mumbai and the North East. From 24/7 rabies hotlines to rapid-response teams and Integrated Bite Case Management, we're building the systems that make a rabies-free India possible.
Our Animal Birth Control programme now spans all 53 wards of Ranchi and five neighbouring blocks, with 2,341 sterilisations and 6,697 dogs vaccinated in 2025, a 47% jump on the year before, with zero rabies-positive bite cases reported. Beyond the clinic, our team rescues, treats and shelters animals at Khunti, and reached over 40,000 people through education across Ranchi, Hazaribagh and Ramgarh.
Education is prevention. In 2025, our programmes reached a record 1,245,594 children, over 50,000 teachers and 722,074 community members across India, through school workshops, street plays, rallies and training for frontline workers like ASHA staff and police. Kerala, Maharashtra, Goa and Bengaluru led the way, with children putting bite-safety skills into practice in real life.
Our Taskforce teams take hands-on surgical training and mentoring to some of India's toughest environments — from villages bordering Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve to flood-hit Shimla and the Andaman Islands. In 2025, deployments across Maharashtra, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and beyond trained local vets and vet assistants while delivering hundreds of sterilisations and vaccinations — skills that stay long after each visit ends.
One of our oldest flagship projects, run with Help Animals India to protect Varanasi's street dogs. In 2025, our team sterilised 2,612 dogs, treated cases ranging from maggot wounds to fractures, and launched the CHAMP rabies-control programme in Sarnath, building on thousands of sterilisations and treatments delivered since 2019.
Powered by our partnership with Central Coalfields Limited, Project Ashray delivered outstanding results for animals across Ranchi and Khunti. In just four months in 2025, our team vaccinated 1,641 animals, sterilised 742, rescued 97, and ran 23 community awareness sessions, backed by a 24/7 animal ambulance and new rehabilitation kennels.
In partnership with MSD Animal Health, we're building a rabies-free Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. In 2025-26, our team educated over 223,000 people — from schoolchildren to ASHA workers and fire brigade staff — and vaccinated 12,769 dogs, backed by new MoUs with both municipal corporations.
