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December 4, 2010 Saturday
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
My Sparrow Home from the desk of .......... Carlyta Mouhini : Indo - Latin Bollywood Pop Singer & Journalist
As a concerned citizen we all should support this initiative by getting “My Sparrow Home” and using this wonderful nest to help save the sparrows.
Carlyta Mouhini
Indo - Latin Bollywood Pop Singer & Journalist
Certificate Of Appreciation issued by PAWS-Mumbai
Save the sparrow, give it a home
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Mumbai Action . 16 November 2010
Save the sparrow, give it a home
Plant and Animals Welfare Society (PAWS) Mumbai, an NGO with a vision of preserving the plant and animal life and working for a cause with social commitment, has started a mission to save the sparrows in the city. PAWS-Mumbai has come up with an idea of a ‘My Sparrow Home’ as a remedy to the depleting number of sparrows in the city, which are feared to be on the verge of extinction.President of PAWS-Mumbai, Sunish Subramanian Kunju, says, “It is a small wooden box that not only gives the birds a safe place to live in but also gives them their own address. It has been built keeping in mind the size of a sparrow and ensures that no predator is able to enter the box. They are designed to protect them against heavy rain and scorching heat.”
To order a Sparrow Home for Rs 250 contact PAWS at 022- 25968313/ 9833480388/ 9892179542 or send an e-mail to mysparrowhome@ gmail.com.
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Monday, November 15, 2010
My Sparrow Home from the desk of .......... Sambhavna Seth : Actress
So as the need of the hour and being a part of concerned citizens it's our duty to raise our helping hand to save the chirping sparrows for a better future.
Sambhavna Seth
Actress / Patron : PAWS-Mumbai
Monday, November 1, 2010
My Sparrow Home from the desk of ..........Soma Rao – Animal Activist
Soma Rao – Animal Activist
Los Angeles, CA
My Sparrow Home from the desk of ..........Pooja Bhatt : Actress
The house sparrow is in grave danger of disappearing if we do not take an initiative and provide it with a safe habitat and “Home”. I implore you to save the sparrow by installing A “My Sparrow Home” as soon as possible, just like I have!
Pooja Bhatt
Actress / Patron : PAWS-Mumbai
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Sunish Subramanian Kunju giving My Sparrow Home to Plant & Animals Welfare Society - Mumbai : Patron Pooja Bhatt |
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| Nisha & Sunish Subramanian Kunju gifting My Sparrow Home to PAWS-Mumbai Patron Pooja Bhatt |
My Sparrow Home from the desk of ..........Sanjay Patil : Member of Parliament
I support PAWS-Mumbai because I believe they can bring the change for the better. This mission to save sparrows is an honest and well deserving effort on their part. They just need a bit of participation from commoners like you and me. So let us give them a hand and pull them to the shore.
Sanjay Patil
Member of Parliament
First, It was a shock to receive this box for my birthday present. But when I gave it a thought it seemed more like I was helping our fellow friends ‘the sparrow’ in a way. It was very thoughtful of my husband to give this to me. All the more, I am glad to have given a hand to help nature. After all we all are a part of it, you, me and the sparrows.
Mrs. Pallavi Sanjay Patil
My Sparrow Home from the desk of ..........Suresh Shetty : Minister for Environment, Maharashtra State
Great to see that the youth team of “Plant & Animals Welfare Society –Mumbai” is doing a good work. I was surprised to see the small wooden box which they have designed as “My Sparrow Home” to give artificial nest to the disappearing sparrow population from the city. I really think, it is today’s need to keep ecological balance. I appeal to the citizens to support the cause to save our chirping beauty who really need our helping hand.
Minister for Environment
Maharashtra State
My Sparrow Home ....... Mission To Save The Chirping Beauty
Pleasant days of chirping we used to hear,
All in the haze of change going to disappear,
Won’t you lend us your hand?
To save this bird that is fading away,
To bring back the chird that has gone astray….”
Greenery lost in transition….CHANGE – the law of the life. Changes done for positive results. Changes from Bombay to Mumbai, changes from Mumbai to a better Mumbai. This city has changed over the years, so has the buildings and architecture.
What may also be called a side effect of these changes is the disappearance of the nature's bounty. We PAWS-Mumbai thrive to not defy the change, but to take measures against the side effects of the change. To protect the unprotected, to protect the sidelined. We take this chance to make the days better for one of our unheeded friends, the sparrow.
Let’s give this Angel, wings to fly….The nooks and corners where once the hopping, swinging and chirping sparrow used to build their nests are gone. The population of the sparrows has seen a dip at a magnitude that is hard to comprehend. To ensure that these little ones get a small home to live and lay eggs, we offer you My Sparrow Home, the mission not only to help and save sparrows but also to give these fellow living species a longer time to fade away.
Removed from their homesand made to live on the
streets…. Sounds familiar doesn’t it??
With habitat destruction, sparrows do not have a safe and suitable place to build their nests and lay eggs. When they build it in the open with utmost care, predators destroy their eggs, which is one of the reasons affecting the population.
Imagine yourself in their bodies; you build a home for your family to protect them, but calamities occur, untold and untoward.
For us humans, calamities are to be thought of only rarely.
Honey, I found our new home………..isn’t it fancy?
It has our address to!!
But for these young ones, it’s on a daily basis. So just as we humans help a fellow human, with basic needs; why not help a fellow human, with basic needs; why not help a fellow living being, with needs far less than that accounted for a human.
What is My Sparrow Home?
It’s a wooden box type nest, which is build keeping in mind the size of sparrow and also its ensured that none of its predators can enter it. These are designed to protect them against the hardest rain and brightest sun. This it’s a safe, for the sparrows except they can break in and out any time.A box sent out from here,
becomes home for
the Sparrows there…..
How can you make use of My Sparrow Home?
You can install it near your garden, balcony or windows. Do not expect that sparrows will build their nest immediately. Once they visit the shelter a couple of times and feel it safe, they will build their nest.
That is our R.V. Raghavan uncle feeding the birdie with a dose of love and care. In the colonies of the BARC, there are sparrows in multitudes. Owing to this fact, Raghavan uncle took hold of our box and before we knew it, sparrows!! Though sparrows had to ward off the birds belonging to different species (myna(s) for instance). These were the first ones, who made it to the nest put up by Raghavan uncle.The decreasing numbers of greenery factor aren’t the only things that have put the sparrow life in jeopardy. The increasing numbers of pollution has too. No! Not only pollution of what they survive on. The pollution of food!
How would you like to see a dead crawling insect in your soup? Won’t like it much, would you? What if I say, the sparrows go through this everyday!
“Let us uproot pollution……..Rooting plants!”
What we actually are trying to say is, pesticides and insecticides, are poison to them. We must avoid them to an extent that we can. We know it’s beneficial, but in a way, it is like slow poison that we ourselves are unaware of.
Even we, humans bear this but ignorance has taken the better part of us. What we can do, as of now, as a preventive measure is that we plant more and more trees. Well if not trees, saplings. Beneficial to the sparrows, beneficial to us in the long run. Let us take a step up together, to nourish our existence.
youngest rescuer Hitesh Yadav
youngest rescuer Hitesh Yadav
student of NES Sunbeam School
with the rescued young one
In bid to evoke awareness at a grass-root level
A school that sparrows call home……
Municipal Councillor
Shri Prakash Phaterpekar
handing a Sparrow box >>>>>>>>>
! Hey YOU!!Spare me some water when Ii am thirsty…..
Spare me some food when I am hungry….
And I’ll fill your mornings with my sweetest compositions….
How you can support PAWS-Mumbai in this mission to save sparrow!
Reach out to the sparrows.
Show them there is still hope.
To stay alive
My Sparrow Home is an initiative launched by PAWS-Mumbai, a NGO working for animal welfare / rights & environment protection in Mumbai City since 2002. With the participation of local people, youth & students, we will install My Sparrow Home in housing societies / colonies, school campus, gardens after spotting the sparrow populated areas. Our request to you is to support this noble cause & adopt a bird home for your family. Anyone wishing to install My Sparrow Home in their balcony or their yard can order it by making a nominal contribution to this conservation mission. Your contribution will help in creating awareness about the problems being face by sparrows. With a little support from you we will be able to increase the scale of our efforts. Please get in touch with us, with your guidance & suggestions. Steer us to a bright tomorrow. You may send Cheques or DD in favour of "Plant & Animals Welfare Society – Mumbai”.
For more information :
E-Mail : mysparrowhome@gmail.com I call us at : +91 22 2596 8313
Visit us at :
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Plant & Animals Welfare Society - Mumbai
Public Trust Reg. Act, 1950 No.: F-24894 (Mumbai)
2 Shiv Shakti, Patkar Compound,
Gamdevi Road, Bhandup (West), Mumbai - 400 078. India
Tel.: 022 25968314 I Helpline : 0 9833480388
E-Mail : pawsmumbai@gmail.com I info@pawsmumbai.org
Saturday, October 30, 2010
NGO initiates move to save sparrows in city
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The Times Of Navi Mumbai . Saturday, October 30, 2010 . News . Page 6
NGO initiates move to save sparrows in city
Report By : George Mendonca
Appeals To Schools And Civic Bodies To Set Up Homes For The Neglected Birds
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| Avian saviour: President of PAWS, Sunish Subramanian Kunju presenting My Sparrow Home' model to actor Pooja Bhatt |
PAWS-Mumbai has announced free distribution of 'Sparrow Houses' across the city's schools and also approached the municipal corporations urging to avail the facility by installing sparrow houses in civic gardens. The President of PAWS-Mumbai, Sunish Subramanian Kunju says, "Recently all major developing cities witnessed decline in the population of sparrows mainly due to the rapid construction activities.
Every citizen seems to be least bothered about this species whose chirping was once a ubiquitous morning call. But today it is rarely seen in our backyards or we only read about them in poems. PAWS-Mumbai, which is a non-profit organization run mainly by youngsters has now come forward with a helping hand to the bird species by giving them an artificial nest.
We have named it as 'My Sparrow Home' that means a small wooden box. It not only gives the birds a safe place to live in but also gives them their own address. It has been built keeping in mind the size of a sparrow and ensures that no predator is able to enter the box. They are designed to protect them against heavy rain and scorching heat."
Sunish added, "If anyone wishes to install 'My Sparrow Home' in their balconies or backyard, they can order it by making a nominal contribution to this conservation mission. Your contribution will help in creating awareness about the problems which is being face by the gullible sparrows.
For making one Sparrow Home, it costs around Rs 250 and it is sold at the same price without earning any profit. We have given order to a Pune-based workshop for making these sparrow homes. Initially, we ordered only 100 sparrow homes and shall order more depending on the response from bird lovers."
Sunish concluded, "We shall not charge even a single penny from schools across the city if they are interested in installing these sparrow homes in their school premises. The free of cost facility can also be availed by civic bodies for installing them in their gardens. With a little support from every helping hand, the efforts taken by PAWS-Mumbai to prevent the extinction of the sparrows can brought into reality.
For details, citizens can contact PAWS on 022- 25968313/ 9833480388/ 9892179542 or e-mail at mysparrowhome@ gmail.com
We have named it as 'My Sparrow Home' that means a small wooden box. It not only gives the birds a safe place to live in but also gives them their own address. It has been built keeping in mind the size of a sparrow and ensures that no predator is able to enter the box. They are designed to protect them against heavy rain and scorching heat."
Sunish added, "If anyone wishes to install 'My Sparrow Home' in their balconies or backyard, they can order it by making a nominal contribution to this conservation mission. Your contribution will help in creating awareness about the problems which is being face by the gullible sparrows.
For making one Sparrow Home, it costs around Rs 250 and it is sold at the same price without earning any profit. We have given order to a Pune-based workshop for making these sparrow homes. Initially, we ordered only 100 sparrow homes and shall order more depending on the response from bird lovers."
Sunish concluded, "We shall not charge even a single penny from schools across the city if they are interested in installing these sparrow homes in their school premises. The free of cost facility can also be availed by civic bodies for installing them in their gardens. With a little support from every helping hand, the efforts taken by PAWS-Mumbai to prevent the extinction of the sparrows can brought into reality.
For details, citizens can contact PAWS on 022- 25968313/ 9833480388/ 9892179542 or e-mail at mysparrowhome@ gmail.com
Friday, October 29, 2010
A "Chirpy" Movement
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Thane Plus . Friday, October 29, 2010 . Page VI
Report By : Vaidehi Venkatraman
The Erection Of Several Buildings Has Led To The Decline Of The Sparrow Specie. An NGO Has Started 'My Sparrow Home' To Help The Declining Species To Find An Abode
The music of chirping of sparrows was a wake up call for many Thaneites once upon a time. Amidst the hussle and bussle of development and urbanisation, many buildings have come up which have led to the decline in the population of sparrows. Their nests have been destroyed for new urban projects to come up.
Plant and Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) Mumbai, a non governmental organisation (NGO) has initiated a concept called 'My Sparrow Home' wherein the youths in the NGO have designed wooden nests for sparrows and are encouraging people to join the movement so that the chirping of sparrows are heard again in the city.
Out of approximately 40 calls made by people to own one sparrow home, about 20 calls have been by people from Thane."The sparrow population has declined to a great extent and we as a society need to help increase it. The structures of new buildings are such that sparrows cannot build their nests in them.
The holes provided in these buildings are so big that the tiny sparrow finds it difficult to reside in it after building its nest. Big birds like pigeons eat up these small birds and destroy their nests in order to build their own nests," said Sunish Subramanian, founder and secretary of PAWS-Mumbai.
He added that we are encouraging people to come forward and participate in this movement of owning one sparrow home at least. "They can contribute their bit to an increase in the sparrow population," he said.Thaneites have been making calls to buy sparrow homes and place them in their societies, balconies or backyards.
Stella Kuntu, a senior citizen and a tuition teacher from Brahmand is expecting her sparrow home sometime next week. She said, "I love animals and birds. It is a good thing that sparrow homes can help increase the population of this specie. When I shifted to Brahmand, there were many sparrows.
Today, the situation has completely changed and I hardly see any sparrows around. I have a small terrace where I am planning to keep my sparrow home." She added that I need not take the responsibility of taking care of them because a sparrow home serves all their needs.
Subramaniam said, "All they need is a nest and they can take care of themselves. We need not even treat them like our pets. For those who do not like keeping pets at home or taking up the responsibility of maintaining a pet need not worry. The sparrow home is an artificial nest which will serve as their home. These nests are small enough only for sparrows to enter and dwell."
He added that they do not make the nests by cutting trees. They simply utilize used wooden planks to design artificial nests for the sparrows. "We are also handing out appreciation certificates for people coming forward to own a sparrow home.
We are providing these nests for free to corporation gardens, schools or colleges. However, we charge a very reasonable amount to housing societies or individual residents of the city."The NGO has also started 'My Sparrow Home' communities on social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook and Orkut to spread awareness regarding the same.For more information or to own a sparrow home email mysparrowhome@gmail.com
All they need is a nest and they can take care of themselves. The sparrow home is an artificial nest which will serve as their home
— Sunish Subramaniam founder & secretary of PAWS-Mumbai
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