A job that was taken up as passion turned out to be one of the biggest initiatives to rescue snakes and other wild animals as well as bring awareness about animal safety, rescue, first aid and most important myths that can be life threatening.
Akash Jadhav in 2017 started his own YouTube channel, named, “Sarpmitra Akash Jadhav” to facilitate his vision of raising awareness against the long persistent myths about snake bites and rendering knowledge about varieties of snakes, their bites and the necessary first aid. His journey towards this, 4.46 million subscriber’s family on YouTube started at an early age when he had to drop out of school in class 7th due to financial scarcity of his family. However, in 2007 he moved to Satara district and with his relative Sunil Bambal who was already a professional snake rescuer engrossed himself in the study of snakes and their rescue techniques. By 2008, Akash had become proficient in the work and moved back to Ahmednagar to start his own work. Having knowledge about the different types of snakes, their bites, its after effects and majorly the required first aid, Akash was able to get 5 to 10 rescue calls on daily basis, and soon he opened a 27*7 rescue center for all.
However, with the increasing pressure of work and his promptness to spread his knowledge with the younger generations, more members were added to the rescue team with proper guidance in the field. The members showed signs of robustness and was like an influential team with both male and female members depicting equality and equity in all terms. Atul Pakhare, Nawaz Shaikh, Rishikesh Jadhav, Shiraj Sayyed, Siddhant Waghchaure, Rishikesh Paredeshi and Aniket Pakhare were the first to join the team and then followed Megha Bhalerav, Neeta Gajare, Rajeshri Alhat and Sheetal Kashar.
Even after such success something was missing for Akash. His aim was still far from him as he was confined to his own region and his urge to spread the education about snakes and against myths was being restricted. Therefore, to proceed further he joined hands with different schools in his region to initiate campaigns and programs for spreading this knowledge. However, he was still not fully satisfied by what he had achieved and wanted to spread his word amongst the masses of the nation to remove the strong myths that had overpowered man’s rationality and lead to harming both men and animals. Finally, in 2017 he launched his YouTube channel “Sarpmitra Akash Jadhav” and the channel fetched the month viewership of 21.28 million and daily viewership of about 709 thousand. It was not just this engagement that made Akash believe in his efforts but even the monetary benefits that he earned which was a net worth of the $5.11 million, from his YouTube channel.
By believing in his efforts and ideas about snake rescue, first aid and knowledge which was above every superstition, Akash Jadhav was able to fulfill his dreams and chase his goals like no other could. With the support that he gathered from all the people he and his team have rescued more than 12000 species of wild animals, they run a 24*7 rescue center for animals and also perform the pious task of imparting knowledge for the growth and protection of all.
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