Cow shelter & daily care
Feeding, watering, cleaning and shade for the herd at our Jhajjar site. A shed of 12 m × 5 m accommodates ten cattle with mangers built to standard dimensions — 75 cm inner width, 30 cm depth, 30 cm fore-curb.
What we run and what we are building
Two things at once: a shelter that operates today, and a model that could pay for itself tomorrow.
Charity keeps a gaushala open. It rarely makes one sustainable. Our project plan is built around the integrated cycle of the cow — milk, dung, urine, bullock power — so that the shelter eventually funds a large share of its own running costs and creates rural jobs while doing it.
Running now
Current operations
Rescue operations
Response to calls about abandoned, injured or accident-affected cattle, including transport and lifting. Ambulance support in our earliest days came from our patron, Mahant Mangaldas Udasin ji.
Veterinary & medical care
Wound treatment, medicines and follow-up care. Most animals arrive needing treatment before they need anything else.
Water supply & storage
A 25,000-litre underground storage tank, begun 14 May 2025, after months of trucking in water daily for roughly 65 animals because the site's own water did not suit them.
Shelter construction
Steel-framed sheds with roofing and shade netting, rebuilt in July 2025 after heavy rain and wind destroyed the earlier wooden structure.
Last rites
Respectful burial for cattle that die of age or injury — an obligation written into our Memorandum of Association, not an afterthought.
Planned
The integrated cow cycle
Every output of a cow has a use. The project below turns each of them into either a saving or an income for the shelter and the village around it.
Indigenous cow dairy
Groups of ten indigenous cows — five milking, five non-milking — run with local families. Ten such groups produce around 250 litres of milk a day, alongside 2,000 kg of dung and 1,000 litres of urine.
Biogas for cooking & light
Ten cattle produce 100–125 kg of dung a day, enough for 4 m³ of biogas — sufficient for a five-member family's cooking, lighting and some electricity. Roughly 1 kWh comes from 0.75 m³ of gas.
Panchgavya centre
Production of panchgavya and cow-urine formulations — organic liquid fertiliser, bio-pesticide sprays, soap, dhoop and floor cleaners — from dung, urine, milk, curd and ghee.
Organic farming & manure
Digested slurry from the biogas plant becomes fertiliser — about 10.95 tonnes a year per plant — used for field crops and to cultivate medicinal and herbal plants for local health care.
Agarbatti & domestic products
A production unit for agarbatti, phenyl, dental powder, cleansing powder and similar daily-use goods made from cow dung and urine — replacing chemical products and creating village enterprise.
Rural livelihoods
Beneficiary groups are small and marginal farmers, landless labourers, women, SC/ST households and unemployed rural youth, supported through training, marketing help and self-help groups linked to NABARD and rural development schemes.
The planned components above are drawn from our submitted project proposal and are
not yet built. They require capital funding of approximately ₹5.59 crore. We describe
them as plans because that is what they are.
Read the full proposal →
Fund a component, not a slogan.
Government departments and CSR committees can adopt any single unit of this project — the biogas plant, the veterinary block, the fodder godown — with a costed proposal and utilisation reporting.