- We actually rescue farm animals from situations where they have no other place to turn.

So farms that are shut down for cruelty, or abuse, neglect, animals that escape from live markets, and slaughter houses, and fall off of transport trucks.

We also do a lot of work with children.

Children come in, either for regular kind of STEAM related academics outside the classroom, or kids with special needs come and have special programs for them.

Kids who have been traumatized have the opportunity to come here and spend time with their therapists and with the animals.

So we really consider our mission both to rescue farm animals, but also to spread kindness and compassion as far and wide as we can.

I used to rescue horses and dogs primarily, and I was involved with a large rescue of a lot of horses at a place where there was also a pig.

So I began studying to learn about pigs so that I could make sure that he was cared for.

And that was in the 90s when there wasn't a lot of information yet about factory farms and things like that.

But in doing my research about how to take care of him, I discovered what was happening to pigs all around us, and it was really quite sad.

I saw pigs in factory farms who were really traumatized, who were really suffering.

And so I made a decision that there were plenty of people rescuing companion animals like horses and dogs, but not as many who were rescuing farm animals.

So I changed my focus to farm animals.

We have a lot of animals who have actually come to us kind of in hopeless circumstances.

Our little baby Rama was our most recent rescue.

He was born out in a rainy, cold pasture on April 5th, and left out there in the rain because he couldn't walk.

So he wasn't useful for the farmer.

The farmer wanted to shoot him, and one of the workers intervened and brought him to us.

So we've been getting him the care he needs.

He saw a neurologist yesterday at New Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania Vet Hospital and got CAT scan.

So we're getting to the bottom of what's going on with him, and in the meantime we're doing a lot of physical therapy, and we think that he's gonna have a full and happy life, even if maybe he moves around a little differently than other sheep do.

So she came to see some horses, just stood on some hay to get a better look, and he was hiding underneath.

He had escaped the night before, and the guy thought he was gone, but he was still on the property hiding under the hay.

And so the woman, when she stepped on the hay bale, it moved, and she saw there was a pig under there who was just shaking and terrified.

And so the guy gave her 24 hours to find a sanctuary, and he came to us.

- [Worker] Yeah, I know.

Anybody tell you about your breath issue?

(inspirational music) - [Indra] And so we like to bring kids like that in here and give them an opportunity.

A lot of times those kids have just been given the message over and over again that they're garbage, and they're just throwaways.

They're just nothing but problems.

And when they come here, and they find that they can be useful to a recently rescued animal and make a difference in someone's life, and they look into those animals' eyes, the animals look into their eyes, and they see that love, that unconditional love reflected back at them, these kids learn to love themselves, and that's really how we believe we can change the world.

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