People with disabilities. Women in rural India. Rescued Indies.
This is what the beginning looks like.
HeartDogs is in its first pilot. The numbers are small. The work is underway.
A small, deliberate start. Every step documented.
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Three lives. One programme. A problem India has not solved yet.
A representative image of a person in need.
People in India living with disabilities or mental health conditions. HeartDogs gives them a better life.
Census 2011 · Lancet, 2017
Mangala and Prima on a training car ride.
Women in rural India without formal employment. HeartDogs creates paid skilled work through its foster-trainer model.
PLFS 2023-24
Ádi started his life as a puppy on the streets.
Street dogs in India without a permanent home. HeartDogs trains selected Indies for roles as assistance and therapy dogs.
Livestock Census 2019Two ways to be part of this.
You can change one life. Then another. Then another.
Your support goes directly into the programme - supporting people with disabilities, creating paid work for women, and training assistance and therapy dogs. No intermediaries. You can see exactly where it goes.
Six UN SDGs. Time to write India's own story.
The global evidence base for assistance and therapy dogs is strong. India's is still being written. HeartDogs intends to lead that - with documented outcomes, six UN SDGs, and a replicable model.
