“Sweet wake of innocence from our childhood, 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 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
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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
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.
Greenery lost in transition….
Let’s give this Angel, wings to fly….
Removed from their homes
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.
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.
“Let us uproot pollution……..
! Hey YOU!!
