| Time | Description | Speakers & Bios |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 to 12:00 | Registration | |
| 12:00 to 01:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 to 1:30 | Inaugration and Opening | |
| 01:30 to 01:45 | Building a Movement for Animals |
Varda Mehrotra |
| 01:45 to 02:15 | Animal Rights Activists: Who are we? Icebreaker and Networking We will be spending the next 3 days working intensely on organising ourselves and learning new things. This session will help you develop those connections you will need - in the next 3 days, and as you take your activism to your city - to be more connected and effective. |
Varda Mehrotra |
| 2:15 to 3:15pm | Experts elucidate the context of AW in East India An insiders view of all the burning topics in East India - wildlife trafficking and poaching, religious sacrifice, cruelty towards dogs, status of the vegan/ animal rights movement - and how the rest of the Indian community can get involved. |
Nandini Baruvah Thinlay Bhutia, SARAH; Moriah |
| 3:15 to 4:00pm | Animal Rights in India: From 'Compassion', 'Unnecessary Suffering' to Equality and Dignity |
Alok Hissarwala |
| 04:00 to 04:30 | Photo | |
| 04:30 to 5:00 | TEA |
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| 05:00 to 7:00 | Addressing animal abuse - investigation, reporting and legal action The session will give you the necessary tools that you need in your repertoire to take action for animals ranging from conducting investigations, filing police complaints and following through to ensure legal action is taken against offenders. Learn from the best in the business! |
Dawn Williams |
| 07:00pm ownwards | Dinner and Fun! |
| Time | Description | Speakers & Bios |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 to 09:30 | Breakfast | |
| 09:30 to 10:30 | How to do Strategic Campaigning for East India
An interactive session enabling discussion about choosing problems (from wild animal rescue to outreach and awareness) and learning how to work in a holistic manner for any issue you are working for. What factors have to be considered? How do we really create a change? How to understand what role does the government, influences, public, media and civil society plays? How do you integrate the strengths you already may have - social media, volunteers? What is your campaign vision and what is your campaign strategy? |
Varda Mehrotra |
| 10.30 to 11:30 | If Slaughterhouses had Glass Walls How do farmed animals suffer and why? And why is it important? |
Manisha Singh |
| 11:30 to 12:00 | TEA | |
| 12:00 to 12:45 | Addressing burnout and ensuring self-care Working in the most-traumatic of the social justice issues, it is easy to drift towards mental exhaustion leading to complete isolation from the cause you've been passionately working for. Addressing this problem is very important for our movement to be successful. Our expert will help you identify sources of burnout and mental exhaustion, ways to deal with them, and take care of others in the movement. Note: This is not a psychotherapy session and is not a replacement to visiting a psychiatrist/ psychotherapist for mental health issues. |
Nidhi |
| 12:45 to 1:30 | Preparing for impact - Group activity This session will help you identify the expected outcomes of your campaign/ intervention and help identify indicators and necessary data that will have to be collected to evaluate your campaign successes. . |
Sirjana Nijjar Koushik Raghavan |
| 1:30 to 2:30 | LUNCH | |
| 2:30 to 3:30 | Breakaway Workshops |
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| 2:30 to 3:30 | Infusing creativity into your activism: Grassroots Vegan Activim Are you bored of rotating between two or three forms of outreach? Our vegan advocacy campaigners will help you explore new modes of outreach in this interactive session, especially designed to hone your skills for effective activism. We will also discuss time-tested methods of outreach, providing you with new insights on how to effectively use them. Armed with this knowledge, we will then encourage you to pick each other's brain and come up with a new mode of outreach, based on real world case studies. With our help, you will apply the new learning and craft effective strategies for outreach in your city. Once the basics are done, we will support you to run the campaign and provide necessary materials to implement it. |
Aravindan V |
| 2:30 to 3:30 | How best to help street dogs? : Setting up an on-site first-aid network
Are you incensed that there are so many dogs in need of help and there is no one to help in your neighbourhood? Our expert will take you through the essential steps to ensure that street dogs are taken care of in the best possible way - which is to set up an on-site first aid programme. The session will take you through case-studies of different scenarios, drawing on decades of experience of running such a programme. |
Abodh Aras |
| 2:30 to 3:300pm | Responsible Rescue and rehabilitation of urban wildlife Wild animals are increasingly coming into conflict with people, especially in newly developing urban areas. What can be done to increase people's tolerance towards these animals? How do we ensure humane and legal rescue-rehab of animals that come into conflict? |
Aaranyak |
| 03:30 to 04:00 | TEA & Networking | |
| 04:00 to 05:00 PM | Selling our work in the print media It is almost considered virtuous to not publicise your good deeds, but it comes with a downside - which is that people aren't inspired to do what you do and more importantly, animal issues that should be in the mainstream don't get mainstream attention if you do not publicise your work. To help you with pitching your work to the media, our expert will guide you through the process to successfully bring animal issues to the forefront of mainstream discussions. |
Malvika Kalra |
| 05:00 to 5:30 PM | Wild Wild World
From reptile rescue to conservation of tigers and mitigation of human-elephant conflict, this session talks about the wildlife issues of our times, and explores holistic solutions that address them. |
Aaranyak |
| 05:30 to 06:00 PM | Inspring Journeys: Animal Aid Unlimited
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Claire Adams |
| 06:00 to 07:30 PM | Collective problem solving - Responding to animal sacrifice
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TBC Adams |
| 7:30 PM onwards | Group Activity and Dinner In addition to exciting food, another surprise activity is planned during dinner, which helps you network with people while having fun enjoying the sumptuous dinner. Stay tuned! |
| Time | Description | Speakers & Bios |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 to 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 to 10:30 | How to work with the Government for animals
An oft-underrated aspect of animal advocacy is working with the government. Our expert will tell us about the legitimacy and scale that comes with collaborating with the government for animals and how to go about it. |
Gajendra Sharma, World Animal Protection |
| 10:30 to 12:00 | Fundraising for animals Resources are needed, whatever your form of activism is. Our expert will guide you through some of the ways in which monetary resources can be obtained from generous donors to help animals and to ensure stability to consistently help animals year after year. |
Alakananda Ghosh |
| 12:00 to 1:00 PM | Activism in a Digital Age
With the world thriving online, the animal movement has an incredible opportunity to share animal's stories like never before! Learn the art of weaving of compelling stories for animals online, and explore ways to keep your social media posts interesting and engaging. |
Ravi Keerthi |
| 1:00 to 1:30 | CHECKOUT TIME | |
| 1:30 to 2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00 to 3:00 PM | Why a volunteer network is necessary and how to build one well? How many times have you felt that you do not have enough boots on the ground to help animals? Our experts will help you identify ways to attract volunteers and retain them for successfully running your campaigns. |
Richa Thomas |
| 3:00 to 3:30 PM | Closing and Certificates All good things will end at some point, so does the Bootcamp. Following final discussions on the past 3 days, certificates will be provided to the participants. |
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| THE END |
HOTEL THE KALYANIZ
Hengrabari Rd,
GMC Ward Number 44,
Ganeshguri, Guwahati, Assam 781006
Dates: 24 - 26 April, 2020
1 h 21 min (27.4 km)
1. Take Airport Exit Rd to SOS Rd/VIP Airport Rd
6 min (1.0 km)
2. Head northwest on New Airport Rd
2 m
3. Turn right
Pass by SULABH TOILET COMPLEX (on the left)
260 m
4. Turn right at Prime car onto Airport Exit Rd
Pass by Air Ambulance By Apollo Team (on the left in 300 m)
500 m
5. Turn left at MES Canteen onto New Airport Rd
Pass by Shiv Mandir (on the left)
180 m
6. Follow NH 17, Assam Trunk Rd and GS Rd to Hengrabari Rd/Khagen Mahanta Path
57 min (26.4 km)
7. Continue onto SOS Rd/VIP Airport Rd
Continue to follow SOS Rd
Pass by Airport Guest House Guwahati (on the right)
1.1 km
8. Slight left at BNS Restaurant Cum Dhaba onto NH 17
Pass by EDUSTATION TUITION CENTRE, GUWAHATI (on the left)
10.9 km
9. Continue straight
Pass by Pawan Sweets (on the right)
350 m
10. Continue onto Assam Trunk Rd
Pass by Instrumentation And Usic Dept (on the right)
6.2 km
11. At Bharalumukh Bridge, Assam Trunk Rd turns slightly left and becomes MG Road
120 m
12. Turn right at ICICI BANK ATM onto TR Phookan Rd
Pass by OYO 14869 Hotel Apollo (on the right)
84 m
13. Turn right at SHREE Solutions INC. onto KRB Rd
Pass by SREE flame appliances and LPG spare parts ,gas stoves.etc. (on the left)
150 m
14. Turn left at the medical store onto Assam Trunk Rd/Mahapurush Srimanta Damodar Dev Path
Continue to follow Assam Trunk Rd
Pass by Khadim's - Guwahati (on the right in 2.3 km)
4.4 km
15. At MAX CEMENT, continue onto Bhangagarh Flyover/GS Rd/Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardev Path
Continue to follow GS Rd/Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardev Path
Pass by Federal Bank (on the left in 1.8 km)
2.3 km
16. Slight left at Shree And Company Tea Shop onto GS Rd
Parts of this road may be closed at certain times or days
Pass by CHOUKA (on the left in 400 m)
550 m
16. Turn left after Prarthana Sweets (on the left)
Pass by Rooptolee E World (on the left)
Destination will be on the left
25 min (5.4 km)
1. Head south on Station Rd toward Assam Trunk Rd/Mahapurush Srimanta Damodar Dev Path
Pass by Jadab Dairy (on the left)
64 m
2. At STS Tour Solution, continue onto Assam Trunk Rd/GS Rd/Mahapurush Srimanta Damodar Dev Path/Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardev Path
Continue to follow GS Rd/Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardev Path
Pass by Khadim's - Guwahati (on the right)
4.6 km
3. Slight left at Shree And Company Tea Shop onto GS Rd
Parts of this road may be closed at certain times or days
Pass by CHOUKA (on the left in 400 m)
550 m
4. Turn left after Prarthana Sweets (on the left)
Pass by Rooptolee E World (on the left)
Destination will be on the left
