How to help 🐾

Every stray deserves a happy belly

Feed A Stray is Vandana Kaparia's personal work to feed, treat, and care for stray dogs and cats in Rajasthan. She does this herself every day. It is not a shelter, NGO, or organisation run by anyone else.

Two ways to support her work:

🎁 Ship supplies 💳 Donate via UPI Read Vandana's story
Vandana Kaparia smiling while holding a rescued puppy
Vandana · stray-mama in action
She feeds, treats, and cares for every animal herself
35+ Animals she feeds & treats
20+ Cared for in Sri Ganganagar, her hometown
15+ She feeds daily in Jodhpur
10+ yrs Feeding strays on her own

💛 Her daily work

What Vandana does for strays

Every day Vandana shows up for animals who have no one else. Here is what your support helps her provide.

  • Daily feeding

    Vandana puts out meals on the streets of Jodhpur and coordinates daily feeding for animals back in Sri Ganganagar, where she grew up.

  • Medicine & treatment

    Mange, wounds, infections, and illness. As a physician, she treats what she can and gets vet help when an animal needs more.

  • Two cities, one mission

    Vandana lives in Jodhpur and cares for 15+ strays there herself. In her hometown Sri Ganganagar, 20+ animals are looked after by a small team she trained and supports from afar.

  • She funds it herself

    For ten years Vandana has paid for food, medicine, and vet visits from her own pocket. She set up this page for friends and family who want to share the load with her.

✨ Vandana's story

Medical officer by day, stray-mama always

Vandana Kaparia is a BAMS graduate and Medical Officer with the Rajasthan government for the last 10 years, specialising in infertility care. Off duty, she still shows up every day for the strays who need her.

Her stray-care journey began in her hometown, Sri Ganganagar, not long after she brought Yuno home in 2014. For ten years she has been feeding, healing, and nursing injured dogs and cats on the streets. In 2026 she moved to Jodhpur and brought that same mission with her. The family of animals she cares for keeps growing.

Today Vandana personally feeds and treats 15+ strays in Jodhpur, where she lives. Back in Sri Ganganagar, a small team she trained looks after 20+ more animals every day. She still coordinates their food and medicine from Jodhpur. She has funded nearly all of this herself for a decade. She is sharing this page with people she trusts who want to help.

In Vandana's words

“Yuno was my first pet. I brought him home in 2014, and he changed the way I see animals. He passed away in 2024, but I still carry him with me. The strays I feed now are part of what he taught me.”

Vandana smiling while petting three rescue dogs at night
Vandana with her street family in Sri Ganganagar
Vandana holding a small cream-coloured rescue puppy outdoors
Cuddles with a rescued puppy
Vandana taking a selfie with a tabby rescue kitten on a bed
Bedtime check-ins with a rescue kitten
Vandana smiling in a selfie with a calm white and tan stray dog on a grassy field
A park day with a furry friend in Jodhpur

💛 Real recoveries

From suffering to surviving

With food, medicine, and love, dogs who had lost nearly all their fur have grown back healthy coats. Three real before-and-after stories from animals Vandana has cared for.

Before and after: a stray dog with severe mange and no fur recovers to a healthy dog with a full white and grey coat
Recovery 1 of 3

Almost no fur left. With care, medicine, food, and love, this dog grew a healthy coat again.

Severe mange → full coat

Before and after collage: a thin stray dog with hair loss recovers to a healthy black and white dog eating kibble
Recovery 2 of 3

Same dog, same spot. Skin healed, weight back, tail up.

Hair loss → healthy & eating

Side by side before and after: an emaciated grey stray with patchy fur becomes a healthy tan dog eating from a bowl
Recovery 3 of 3

From bones showing through to a happy, furry friend.

Emaciated → thriving

📦 Monthly essentials

What keeps them going

These supplies keep 35+ animals fed and treated across both cities.

  • Dry food

    Dog and cat kibble for the daily meals Vandana puts out in Jodhpur and Sri Ganganagar.

  • Medicine

    Treatments for mange, infections, injuries, and wellness checks.

  • Vet care

    Visits when animals are seriously ill or need procedures.

  • Supplies

    Bowls, feeders, treats, and reflective collars to keep strays safer.

🐾 How to help

Two ways you can make a difference

Friends and family can support Vandana directly. Pick whichever works for you. Both go straight to the animals she cares for.

Option 1

Ship food & supplies

Order from her gift list on Amazon India. Items ship to Vandana's door: food, feeders, treats, and more.

Go to gift list ↓ Option 2

Donate money via UPI

Send money for food and medicine. Pick an amount, download a QR code, and pay in your UPI app.

Donate via UPI ↓

Option 1 · Ship supplies

Order from her gift list

Best if you want something physical sent to her. Pick items on MyRegistry; they ship from Amazon India to Vandana.

Her Feed A Stray gift list has the food, feeders, treats, and collars she uses every day in Jodhpur and Sri Ganganagar.

  • 🐕 Purepet dry dog food from ₹1,078
  • 🐈 Purepet dry cat food from ₹850
  • 😺 Cat treats & supplements from ₹392
  • 🥣 2-in-1 pet feeder from ₹299
  • ✨ Reflective stray collars (×5) from ₹499

Pick any item, or several! Purchases show up on the registry so Vandana knows what is on the way.

Open gift list & ship items →

Option 2 · Donate via UPI

Send money for food & medicine

Best if you want to send money she can use right away. Choose dogs and months (or enter your own amount), then download the QR code and pay in your UPI app.

Vandana spends about ₹24,000 each month on all 35 dogs she cares for in Jodhpur and Sri Ganganagar (about ₹686 per dog, per month).

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How long you want your support to last

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Amount to pay

₹686

For 1 dog, for 1 month

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Money goes directly to Vandana. She uses it for stray food, medicine, and care.