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The stories below are a selection of news stories issued by the Brooke. American Friends hope you find them of interest
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10/24/2012 - Heaven and hell in Nicaragua esterday was a day of opposites. In the morning we spent some time at one of Managua’s city-like rubbish dumps where animals and people scratch out a living side by side. While 30 minutes away in the afternoon, we found an apparent animal idyll... Read full story |
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05/29/2012 - Wassanpura Wayside Brooke vet John Harvey visits a wayside station at Wassanpura where the Brooke goes three times a week to provide treatment Read full story |
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05/18/2012 - Equine Fair Appeal The land is barren and dusty. The sun is scorching. There is little shelter or clean water, and nothing around for miles. Then, over four days from 4th -7th August, nearly 8,000 animals from across India descend, brought by their owners to be traded. Read full story |
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04/07/2012 - American Friends at the Fork Farm Trials American Friends of the Brooke is the official charity of this year’s Fork International Horse Trials. The four day event helped to further enhance awareness about the charity’s mission to help working horses, donkeys and mules across the world. Read full story |
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01/31/2012 - Empowering women to be agents of change Leading women from the worlds of equine, sport, science and show business gathered today at Clarence House in London, UK to celebrate the vital role women play in driving change in the developing world, improving equine welfare in particular. Read full story |
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12/12/11 - Egypt Appeal Thousands of working horses in Egypt run the real risk of starvation in the coming months. But it doesn’t have to be like this. The Brooke has recently launched an emergency feeding programme which will save lives and livelihoods. Your donations are vital. Read full story |
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10/28/2011 - American Friends launches in North Carolina Launch aims to riase awareness about horses, donkeys and mules in tough working environments overseas, such as brick kilns, quarries and timber markets. Read full story |
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10/22/2011 - HRH at NAM - a night to remember HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, President of the Brooke, added her own watercolour artwork to the exciting new War Horse: Fact & Fiction exhibition at an evening reception with War Horse’s author, Michael Morpurgo at the National Army Museum, Chelsea in London. Read full story |
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10/25/2011 - Buck DVD on sale for Christmas Barbara Fogler, a loyal supporter of the Brooke, is selling DVDs of the newly released documentary "BUCK" via Amazon on her website. She is donating ALL of the proceeds to the Brooke Read full story |
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10/01/2011 - Remembering the real war horses This month, Michael Morpurgo’s hugely successful War Horse story moves from page to stage to exhibition at the National Army Museum in London with help from the Brooke's archive. Read full story |
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9/05/2011 - The mares of Neb Serai Find out how the Brooke India is helping horses working in the vegetable markets in Southern Delhi who were suffering from overloading wounds, dehydration and heat exhaustion... Read full story |
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5/23/2011 - Drought in Kenya: our response The Brooke has launched an emergency response programme aimed at helping working donkeys at risk of dehydration, starvation and disease in drought-hit northern Kenya. Read full story |
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4/4/2011 - Brooke Ambassador supports expansion into new brick kilns The Brooke is expanding its work into more than 110 new brick kilns in India to benefit more working donkeys, horses and mules.“It really struck home what a tough environment it is here in the brick kilns for the animals and their owners, a stark contrast to the lives horses in the UK enjoy,” says Brooke Ambassador Major Richard Waygood MBE. Read full story |
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9/20/2011 - Pakistan floods 2011 Parts of Pakistan have been hit by severe flooding for the second successive year. Nearly 80,000 animals have died, close to 6,000 of them working horses, donkeys or mules. Read full story |
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1/11/2011 - Hope at the Hosanna grain market Karen Pesjak, the Brooke's Programme Advisor for the Middle East, blogs about her time visiting the Hosanna grain market in Ethiopia. Read full story |
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11/9/2010 - The Brooke to host the Sixth International Colloquium on Working Equids The Brooke will host a groundbreaking conference to develop new approaches to benefit working horses and donkeys and their owners. Read full story |
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7/12/2010 - American Friends supports the Brooke’s Responsible Tourism for Animals campaign American Friends supports the Brooke’s Responsible Tourism for Animals campaign Read full story |
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5/18/2010 - Challenging the myths behind harmful practices Many poor families rely on working animals to earn a basic living so when their animal becomes sick they turn to traditional treatments for a cure. Read full story |
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5/18/2010 - Alleviate poverty through working equine welfare? The Brooke hosts a seminar to explore the link between poverty and equine welfare with key international development and animal welfare experts. Read full story |
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10/11/2010 - Watch the Brooke story unfold... An incredible insight into how a hospital for ex-warhorses on the dusty streets of 1930s Cairo became one of the world’s leading international equine welfare charities. Read full story |