STRAW's ultimate goal is to build a society where people are empathetic to one another, compassionate to animals and care for the environment; and the medium chosen to achieve this is by imparting humane education to children, adolescents and to adults. We do this under three of our programs – Compassionate Kids, Compassionate Teens for school children and Compassionate Youth for college students.
Humane Education for School Children
Humane education can play a significant role and serve as a key tool to reduce cruelty towards animals. Gross unawareness about the fact that the animals too are sentient beings who can feel emotions & pain, just like we human beings, is the main reason that people are cruel to them. What we need is a compassionate society and this is best achieved through children. We therefore reach out to hundreds of thousands of children through our Compassionate Kids and Compassionate Teens humane education programs in schools and by contributing humane education content to their school textbooks under our program Compassionate Classrooms. In their formative years, children can be better sensitized towards the plight of the animals and the environment, as well as the importance of coexisting peacefully with them. We thus sow seeds of compassion in their hearts and minds.
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar"
Brady Millar