The idea behind Shri Hari Hive was born during the COVID-19 lockdown. When the world was forced indoors, the streets went quiet — no vehicles, no crowds. For the first time, the street dogs could walk freely without the constant fear of traffic. But another struggle became visible: there was very little food.
On one of their regular walks near home, Paramjeet Singh and his sister came across six tiny newborn puppies, barely a week old — and then their mother, thin, weak and exhausted from days of trying to find enough for all of them. They went to a nearby shop and bought biscuits, milk and eggs. That evening, they watched her eat.
As the puppies grew healthier, other dogs from nearby streets began joining them. One feeding point became several dogs; several dogs became a growing responsibility. Brother and sister decided to set aside part of their own income for the dogs around their neighbourhood — and soon found that feeding was only one part of the problem. Dogs were being injured. Dogs were falling sick. Dogs were being abandoned. And there was nowhere safe for them to recover.
The Birth of the Hive
Since 2021 the work has gone far beyond feeding: rescues of injured and abandoned animals, emergency treatment, parvovirus, distemper and mange cases, sterilisation, and recovering dogs nursed inside the family's own home — then returned, strong and vaccinated, to the streets they came from. Today that is over a hundred dogs a day across Delhi NCR, and roughly ₹4 lakh a month, carried for years almost entirely by two people.
In July 2026 the work became Shree Hari Hive Foundation, a registered Section 8 non-profit, so that it no longer depends on one family. The dream is a sanctuary campus in Punjab — shelters, a medical unit, a langar hall, quiet huts, an organic farm — where a rescued animal never again has to be returned to the road. There is no land yet. Acquiring it is the first milestone, and every rupee given now feeds a dog today and brings that land closer.
"We didn't just want to feed them. We wanted to create a place where they could be safe."