Forest Voices of India, a U.S. 501 C 3 charity, helps support four charities in south India.
The names of these Indian charities are – The WRRC – Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (in Bangalore); Blue Cross of India, in Chennai; the CP Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, and its sister organization, CPREEC – the CPR Environmental Education Centre (in Chennai).
The WRRC, in Bangalore, rescues, cares for, and releases back to the wild, orphaned or injured wildlife, especially forest animals. They rescue and release several thousand wild animals each year.
Blue Cross takes in and finds new homes for homeless dogs and cats, as well as other domestic animals, rescuing and caring for 10,000 animals each year.
The C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation and CPREEC are primarily educational organizations. They run several schools, including elementary schools for children. In India, schools are not free and are not paid for by the government. The parents pay for their children to go to school.
These schools, run by the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, provide scholarships for the children whose parents cannot afford to pay. In addition, the Foundation also provides around one thousand scholarships each year for children to attend other schools in the city of Chennai. Without this help, these children from poor families would not be able to attend school at all and would not receive any education. With this help, they have a bright future, filled with possibilities. They can go on to a university to become doctors, attorneys, accountants, teachers, or whatever career they choose. Many fields are open to them.
In addition, the CPRA Foundation also runs programs each year for around 10,000 young people – mostly of high school age, in six states in south India – to go on excursions out into the wilderness or forest areas – to do scientific projects to study the eco-systems. This takes these young people out into nature and not only gives them scientific knowledge, but also a profound awareness of the environment and a lifelong love of the natural world.
All of the educational work of the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation and CPREEC instills in young people a profound connection with the world of nature – which, of course, benefits both the planet earth and the young people themselves.