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The journey of saving strays | Kiran Maheen | TEDxFASTLahore


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your boards who would have told me that
I would be starting my wanting to you I
would have lost
I won’t Lisbon and I’m a little person
ever since I was a kid I know what big
didn’t the puppies are parenting them
home but then as you keep ruin are you
can stuck in an endless straights
there’s a rat race to get the perfect
grades to be the perfect student the be
the perfect daughter or son or whatever
and in that you forget who you are you
forget your passion in what you wanted
however seven years ago something
happened which changed my life but also
led me back to the person that I used to
be
this is toy 7 years ago you walked out
for five minutes
and in those five minutes everything
changed see he never came back we looked
for days months weeks but he was not
there I think that’s the guy you when I
started looking at people differently
because they were looking at me
differently I realized that for them
here you are just a thing not a living
being and I was just as honored but for
me he was a family member and somebody
had taken my family members if they
didn’t care
neither did my friends my family or the
communities I was told time and time
again he just go get a new dog it
doesn’t matter why are you stealing he
removes it doesn’t matter it’s just to
talk but he wasn’t just at all and that
led me to look at the animal world the
complete
I was looking at the way between the
animals we beat them to hurt them we
lock them up into basically prison
straight we don’t respect them we don’t
think that there are living things it
again things like beans we don’t
consider them alike however according to
the University of Cambridge of the study
on there in 2012 animals have a
conscious now what does that mean it
means that they can think feel and
respond to the environment around them
it means that they feel happy they might
do it differently which is why we can to
ignore them so what did I do about this
about a couple of years back I started
mining th called for Earth I was
spreading information regarding animal
rights and how you can help the animals
around you that changed as well coming
to this March the 5th of March my friend
Irma colony there was a horrifying case
outside his house a dog had been shot
multiple times in the face she’s been
nightmare for six hours there was nobody
to help her
he caught me intently and we’d be
shorted around 6:00 so for the next two
hours I tried I tried to get some sort
of help but there was no NGO there was
no animal activists there was no bed
would want to help us out by the time
you were able to take her she was too
far gone and we have to put her down the
very next day
Tod’s Welfare Society was formed thought
well fish society is formerly protect
and safe safe injured neglected and
abused animals the streets of the market
see GWS is not just an NGO
it’s a passion it’s an idea an idea that
all lives matter and idea that from me
to be human I need to have compassion an
idea that I need to treat all the
species that you know living is not it
with me with respect and I wanted to
change the perception regarding animals
that they are nonliving nonliving means
they are sentimental beings who can
favor a theme so since March till now we
have come a long way we have rescued
over 80 animals we have gotten for over
40 dogs adopted we also deal with
animals mostly dogs from areas which
they’re going to be shortened and when I
started my goal wanted by the end of the
year I should have a piece of land where
I can build the first animal shelter in
the world and I’m trying to say that if
so much closer you do that and at times
when I’m thinking about it it seems
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never thought that I’d be able to do
this in such a short time when I started
everybody told me that DWS will fail I
didn’t have a team it was just me I
didn’t have a plan and I didn’t have any
money
all right so and my friends would tell
me that you know if I start something
I’d be paying less attention to my job
and I had a good job so why am i doing
this and the one thing with everybody
who’s repeating time and time again was
it is not the right time there’s never
going to be a right time do you think
there’s ever going to be the perfect
tiny movement or here for when you want
to do something if you really want to do
something just get up and do it
kyoya you fail try again he cannot keep
doing it there’s no other way there is
no other way there is no other path this
is it there are no guarantees if you
favor if you succeed but imagine the
possibilities if you do succeed the
things that you can achieve so I was a
person I’ve never been a public speaker
incredibly low on confidence incredibly
the one self-esteem
yet Here I am knocking in front of you
this isn’t something which I acquired
overnight all this there to work at it
but it’s about see the only person
stopping you from doing anything is you
the day you let go of your ego of your
you know whatever is stopping you you
can achieve anything you want to finding
your passion it’s difficult what you
need to try you need to keep trying you
need to look for the thing that really
makes your life and then then you find
it you work towards it no matter what
situation you’re in no matter what is
happening around you you’ll find a way
to make it work and it’s not easy
some people think that the second you
find your passion everything just falls
into place and then you know you had all
the time that you don’t find your
passion and your never breaking up over
it is a very given I’m sorry that’s not
it you’re working every day you’re
trying your diet they’re sleepless
nights you’re denying en but you need to
do what you got to do me there with
times life is kicking you but you really
need to start a few days back dive into
something really dramatic we rescued a
case at all she was half paralyzed and
somebody had cut her friend father she
was in a lot of pain she had a panic
mode and internal infection a few heads
told us that she might not survive so we
should put her down what we didn’t see
now this dog
her name was Manny very scared timid dog
who didn’t really even like us touching
her but for the next you ease not just
me but when dieting me tried because
everybody does
a shot at life if I’m not trying for her
husband and try for it so every day you
speak her to the bed
she wouldn’t move on to be had to change
her position every few hours she had to
be fed she was he couldn’t balance
herself we did everything we possibly
could literally everything and then I
started seeing her improving she started
singing on her own and she was
responding to us however one day I
walked in and there was Bell around her
we panicked it occurred to the bed when
we found out that she had you know her
organs were probably collapsing loads of
internal bleeding
the last thing we could do was get her
blood transfusion so we did it I took my
own dog in we call it done and she was
better she was active she was burning
we were also hopeful that she’s going to
get better and the morning when I went
to pick her up to take her back to the
way to pick her up and there was blood
all over my friend all of my legs on my
feet and I knew what I had to do we took
her to the bed and we had to put her
down
because for organs become think he’s
leaving she was in vain and at that
moment I think no case has touched me
like this one I wanted to give up I
wouldn’t take a step back and just
disappear for a little bit because I did
everything that I could to save her but
I couldn’t
and her eyes kept on haunting me I
couldn’t see where I couldn’t do it
I was sick of the law says I was sick of
the blood I couldn’t do it
I told these guys that you know what I’m
gonna disappear with your fur a little
bit just managing to you know what did I
do
I cried for the next words stopped it
all but I went back to work because this
is
me this isn’t about how I’m feeling
this isn’t about if I am sad if I’m
happy if I’m family if I’m known if I
have not known it’s not about me it’s
about the cases we saved it’s about the
lives we have changed it’s about the
chances we’ve given to these animals and
it’s about the chances we can give to
others there’s so many money’s out there
and if I give up today yous gonna look
after them so the one thing that might
vice all of you if any of you ever start
a social initiative and I hope you guys
do never make it about yourself it’s not
about your ego it’s not about your
arrogance it’s not about your moods if
you’re famous if you’re in control or if
you are not in control it’s about the
difference you’re making it’s about the
change you want to make it’s about the
guys you’re saving the second you start
focusing on that so many things that you
can achieve payments see if you fully
believe in something and your intentions
of your there’s nothing that you cannot
achieve if you fail get up and try again
there’s nothing that is stopping you yes
there are difficult times yes there are
losses
yes mistakes I mean that’s all right
the Italians would be you have to make a
lot of difficult decisions but you need
to do what you need to do
I recently quit my job it was a good job
that we went in there from two years
good people and I like my job but it
never loves my job and a secondary GWS I
realize this is something I loved and I
couldn’t focus on it anymore and that’s
what I wanted to do so that’s the thing
you guys have to find for yourself what
is that one thing which you want in life
see now I didn’t want money I wanted to
go out and save these days what is it
that you want to do it’s for you you
find out there very few people who go
down this road yes a lot of you have
ideas that if you have dreams but very
few people you don’t do anything about
it that’s because nobody wants to step
on the road you won’t know where it’s
sealing you don’t know where you’re
going so why take the risk that’s why
you have so few people doing these
things but it’s something you to decide
and you determine the kind of life that
you want to live would you rather have a
life of what else or would you have a
life in which are able to actually leave
here impact on this world
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