Thane Engineer Is PETA India’s 2018 Volunteer Of The Year
In honour of International Volunteer Day on 5 December, PETA India has named Thane engineering student Prasad Suresh Chavan its 2018 Volunteer of the Year. Since joining PETA India as a volunteer two years ago for its youth outreach arm PETA Youth, Chavan has done everything from running animal rights kiosks at popular events like Comic Con and Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology (VESIT)’s Lit Festival to helping bring an animal-protection message to young people and more.
PETA Youth initiatives Chavan has helped advance include “I, Chicken“, a virtual reality experience that helps students consider what it feels like to be a chicken taken to slaughter, and “Save the Boy Child“, which involves inviting students to watch a 60-second video about the routine killing of male calves and chicks by the dairy and egg industries because they can’t produce milk or lay eggs.
As an active participant of PETA India’s Compassionate Citizen program, Chavan has helped with school workshops aimed at giving children aged 8 through 12 a better understanding of and appreciation for animals. He has also helped with PETA India information tables at the Krazy Kids Karnival and Krackerjack Karnival in Mumbai.
In addition to encouraging students across India to be kind to animals, Chavan has assisted PETA India in gathering information about the illegal use of spiked bits (or “thorns”) to control horses used for weddings and rides, has rescued and treated many injured animals in his locality with the help of local animal-welfare groups, and makes sure he gets all the homeless animals in his area sterilised.
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