Tanzania’s donkeys are running out of food, water and time
URGENT UPDATE: We still haven’t reached our goal to rush emergency relief to donkeys facing a DOUBLE disaster in Tanzania. Your gift today can help deliver the feed, water and vaccinations they desperately need to survive. Please help NOW. A devastating drought has left 1,200 working donkeys in the artisanal Mgusu gold-mining community starving, while […]
You can help save donkeys from slaughter in Kenya
Emma and Ziggy were both heavily pregnant when traffickers seized them for the donkey skin trade in Kenya. Cramped into a truck and headed for slaughter, they – and their unborn foals – were mere hours away from death. But thanks to the compassion of supporters like you, their story did not end in tragedy. […]
Tortured baby donkey Inbar needs you
Inbar was just five months old when she was violently ripped from her mother’s side and brutally tortured in the Rahat region of southern Israel. Donkey foal Inbar was stabbed and set on fire – all for a bit of ‘fun.’ A group of teenagers found the mother and foal and, for their own entertainment, […]
Donkeys in Tanzania’s gold mines need your help
As you read this, a donkey is lying injured in the gold-mining region of Geita, Tanzania – waiting. Waiting for someone to rescue them. Waiting for relief from the pain. Injured donkeys in Geita don’t have time to wait. And we are running out of the supplies needed to treat them. How do we know there […]
60 horses and 9 donkeys are being forced out of their only home
Sixty horses and nine donkeys at the Have a Heart Equine Sanctuary in McGregor, South Africa, are in dire peril for the second time in a year. Our long-term partner has been a place of refuge for nearly nine years – a last chance for horses and donkeys who survived horrific abuse, neglect, illegal bush […]
You can help a rescued donkey survive this winter in Israel
With your help, hundreds of rescued donkeys in Israel can get through the winter safely. But time is running out, and we need to act now. The 800 rescued donkeys at the Starting Over Sanctuary (SOS) have only one week of hay left. Without immediate support, the animals face the very real risk of going […]
Deadly heat puts 300 donkeys at risk in Tanzania
Every week, more than 300 donkeys walk up to 25 miles (40km) to reach the Lengijave market in Arusha, Tanzania, hauling back-breaking loads of firewood, charcoal and other goods… And after completing this exhausting journey, they are ‘rewarded’ by baking in the heat with no shade, no water and no relief – only the burning […]
Life-threatening disease could devastate 40 rescued horses and ponies
Help us protect them before it’s too late. Usually, when we ask our supporters to help animals, we are in the midst of a crisis when animals are in immediate danger of death. Today, we have a chance to prevent suffering before it begins. Our partner HUGS in Bodmin, England, cares for wild ponies who […]
After falling victim to a poacher’s snare in Zimbabwe, this donkey has suffered for five long months
In a small, impoverished community near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, our partner, Matabeleland Animal Rescue & Equine Sanctuary (MARES), was conducting an outreach mission to vaccinate and treat working donkeys when a desperate owner approached them for help. He pointed to his gentle donkey, Big Boy, who had been limping painfully for five long months. With […]
Abused and disabled donkeys and horses in Morocco need safe shelters as soon as possible
In the ancient streets of Marrakesh, Morocco, there’s a quiet corner where suffering meets salvation – our partner shelter, the Jarjeer Mule and Donkey Refuge. This vital sanctuary provides a loving forever home for more than 270 animals – including 23 who arrived in the last three months alone! These are donkeys, horses and mules […]