History
In 1994, committed individuals working at an animal welfare non-profit, Help in Suffering (HIS), set out to undertake an alternative approach to the mass culling of street dogs in Jaipur, India - a method still widely applied in India's fight against rabies. Through a dog population control and rabies vaccinations campaign, HIS demonstrated a promising new approach to the elimination of rabies in dogs and humans. In 2003, following requests from Indian federal officials and the Jodhpur authorities, Federico Spinola, a Trustee of Help in Suffering (HIS), founded the Marwar Trust, as an offshoot of HIS, to focus exclusively on eliminating canine rabies in India. In 2004, the Trust established the Jodhpur Project, where, working closely with experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), a team of local project staff and volunteers have the opportunity to expand upon and formally evaluate current knowledge in the field of canine rabies prevention and control. This pilot project aims to establish a model of excellence which can be applied throughout India and Asia. The Marwar Trust is a registered public charity incorporated in India and the United Kingdom (Charity Number 1099740). Under a fiscal sponsorship arrangement provided by the American Fund for Charities, the Marwar Trust operates as a 501(c)(3) in the United States.
