Know her more: Pakistani animal rights activist ''Ayesha Chundrigar''

Ayesha Chundrigar is a Pakistani social entrepreneur, animal rights activist, entrepreneur and journalist. She is founder of the Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation, a non profit animal rescue organization based in Karachi, Pakistan.

Ayesha Chundrigar Early Life

Ayesha Chundrigar was born on 30 September 1987. She graduated in 2009 with a degree in English Literature and Cinema Studies from the College of Arts & Science of the New York University. She is a licensed psychotherapist with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She won the Green Innovation Challenge organized by WWF-Pakistan.

Ayesha Chundrigar Career

Ayesha Chundrigar headed a refugee camp of 700 displaced people in Islamabad after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. She founded Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation, also known as ACF in 2013 in Karachi. ACF began a rescue ambulance service and have an active rescue helpline.[7] In 2020 the shelter has 500 animals of all kinds and is Pakistan’s first animal shelter for street and homeless dogs, cats and different animals in Pakistan. ACF consists of seven core members as well as volunteers.

The Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation (ACF)

The Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation (ACF) is a non-profit organisation registered in 2013 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. ACF popularly known as ACF Animal Rescue is home to the first-of-its-kind animal shelter and rescue service in Pakistan, based in Karachi for injured, abused and neglected stray animals such as dogs, cats and kites and working animals such as donkeys, horses, and camels.ACF Animal Rescue is a rescue organisation and not an activist organisation. ACF uses education to create awareness at the grass root level to change mindsets that would essentially create empathy and compassion for all living beings. ACF only works within the outlines of the goals that have been laid out in the ACF mandate.