Animal Aid Shelter House at Badi Lake, 6 km from Udaipur City. With great joy, the Animal Aid Shelter House at Badi Lake opened in May 2005. It is currently home to about 20 animals with a capacity for 50.

Situated in an agricultural valley below hills in the Aravali mountain chain, this gorgeous 1 acre site is home to animals not yet able to return to the street, but for whom daily medical treatment is no longer required.

Casually called “Donkey Heaven” by staff and volunteers, the Animal Aid Shelter House has easy grazing access to public lands that border on one of the few water reservoirs of Udaipur District. With not a single building in site in any direction, the facility is nestled in nature and provides an ideal environment for recovery and in some cases retirement.

The facility includes a thatch roof shaded area for protection against the elements, open grazing area inside the walls and a spectacular grazing ground outside.

It also includes a room used for grain and medical supply storage and shelter for the shepherd/guard, and volunteers have had some very relaxing night's sleep on the roof under the stars of a Rajasthani sky.

This project has been generously funded by private donors both American and Indian.