Animal Angels Foundation is a Mumbai based organization founded by Rohini Fernandes and Radhika Nair who are clinical psychologists, certified practitioners of animal-assisted therapy and professional dog trainers.

Animal Angels Foundation is the first organization in India working in the field of animal-assisted therapy.

Through animal-assisted therapy, our specially trained therapy pets assist us in helping children and adults learn or improve various skills and in speeding up the recovery process. We practice animal-assisted therapy in the areas of developmental disorders, psychiatric disorders, physical disabilities, physical illnesses and behavioural/emotional problems.

We even work with kindergartens and schools where our therapy pets assist in educating children on how to interact with animals.

We also have a team of volunteers who along with their therapy dogs and cats do animal-assisted visits to places like orphanages and old age homes.

We were shortlisted by Marico Innovation Foundation as one of the top twenty-five innovations in India for the Innovation for India Awards 2007-2008. Rohini and Radhika were also nominated as MTV Youth Icons of the year 2008 for their work at Animal Angels Foundation. We were nominated for the TATA NEN Startups Awards 2008. Our organization was ranked 241 from 600 different startup companies in India!

We were chosen for the Paragon 100 Fellowship (2009-2010) organised by The Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE). Rohini and Radhika were part of 100 young outstanding social change makers and entrepreneurs chosen from the Asia Pacific region.

Our therapy pets assist us in helping people cope with life's day-to-day challenges such as loss, stress, loneliness and illness, in learning new skills and in speeding up their recovery process.