Gaushala · 62 animals · Vrindavan
This is a shelter, not a dairy: the animals here are old, lame or abandoned, they give nothing back, and that is the point. The fodder bill comes first every month, the vet's bill second, and this page prices both openly so your seva buys hay you could come and touch.
The herd count is chalked on the feed-room board and changes when an animal arrives or dies. We do not announce arrivals as rescues with music; a shelter's register is quieter than that.
For People who want their gau seva to buy fodder, not marble · Families sponsoring a named animal's upkeep · Volunteers for the morning feed rounds
These four are promises this page makes on your behalf. Keep them or change them — they are not decoration.
Ways to give or join
Every figure is this year's actual cost at Vrindavan mandi rates — green fodder by the trolley, bhusa by the quintal, the vet by the visit — divided honestly across sixty-two animals. Feed costs move with the season, and when they move, these cards move; a fodder price that never changes is a fodder price nobody is checking.
Monthly
Fodder, bhusa, the vet-visit share and the keeper's share for one animal for one month — the whole honest cost, not the poster's rounder number.
One-time
A trolley-load split across the sheds — what all sixty-two animals eat between sunrise and dusk. Families often give this for a remembrance day.
Monthly
Wound dressings, deworming, the drip sets an old herd runs through. The least photographed shelf in the gaushala and the one that runs out first.
Volunteer
Six to eight in the morning: hauling, chopping, filling troughs, and learning which of the old ones eats slowly and must not be hurried.
In kind
Dry fodder by the quintal, tarpaulins, and rock salt — the things the barn must hold before December. Brought to the shed, weighed on our own scale, entered in the stock book.
Pick the way you want to help and it lands in the form below. Picking another replaces it — this page records one intention at a time, not a basket. NO MONEY MOVES ON THIS PAGE: nothing is charged, deducted or collected here, and how giving actually happens is written under the form.
On the ground
No garlanded festival photography and no suffering-for-sympathy. These frames are placeholders for your own sheds on a working day — animals in care and at ease, feed being moved, the register being kept. Never the sick pens.
How seva actually happens
Paste the trust's bank account name, number and IFSC here, and the UPI ID if you use one — exactly as the bank has them. State plainly that nobody is authorised to collect cash at the gate or door-to-door in the trust's name.
Words you have permission to print
A long-standing donor or a volunteer, in their own words, with their name — collected with written permission.
Your honest record
Last quarter's numbers, dated: what came in, what fodder and vet care it bought, and the herd register's movements — arrivals and deaths both. The audited annual figures go here exactly as the auditor wrote them.
The frames above are placeholder photographs of the kind of work this page is about — not this organisation's own record, and never a person whose face buys sympathy. The slots below are deliberately blank: this is a template, and an invented beneficiary count, an invented donor or an invented 80G number would be a lie on a page asking people to give — and inventing the tax registration is an offence. Fill each slot with something real and checkable, then delete this line.
How it works
Three steps, and money moves only to the trust's account, only against a receipt.
The form records what you picked and how to reach you. Nothing is charged here — this page has no way to take money, which is deliberate.
Within the week, with the account details and receipt mechanics. If you asked to sponsor a named animal, you will get the animal's page from the herd register — age, condition, what it eats.
Seva you can stand in the middle of. The feed-room board shows the month's bills; the stock book shows your quintals; the herd does the rest.
Before you give
Some quote the fodder alone; ours includes the vet share and the keeper's share because an animal is not fed by hay only. Some large shelters also grow their own fodder, which we do not yet. The arithmetic is on the card and the bills are at the shed — compare freely.
No. Most of our animals are past milking, the few lactating cows feed their calves first, and the trust deed forbids sale. If anyone offers you Charnauli milk or ghee, they are not us.
The standing rule in the strip above — fodder and vet first — plus the quarterly sheet in the proof section, plus the feed-room board any visitor can read. We are also plain about the reverse: if the trust ever builds, it will say so before, not after.
No. Nobody collects cash in this trust's name at doors or gates — that is written above and it has no exceptions. Give only by the account and UPI the trust itself publishes, and take a receipt.
Please do — mornings are best, feed time is honest time. No appointment needed; the sick pens are closed to visitors because recovery is not a spectacle.
The one thing this page asks
One form, one intention. The office replies within the week — nothing is charged or collected here.
You want to help with
Nothing yet — pick a way to give above, or say it in the form.
Three required fields: a name, a way to reply, a channel. There is deliberately NO amount field — the card you picked carries the honest cost, and money is discussed with the office against a receipt. No PAN here (it belongs with the 80G receipt at donation time, not in a web form), and no card or UPI field, ever: a donation page that takes money nobody audits is the thing this template refuses to be.
Your details go to the trust's office for this one reply and are not added to any appeal list. They are never sold, and nobody will collect at your door because of this form.