Brooke Hospital for Animals - luxor

The Brooke is an international non-governmental organisation dedicated to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys and mules through direct veterinary treatment and community programmes around animal health and well-being.

The Brooke is an international non-governmental organisation dedicated to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys and mules through direct veterinary treatment and community programmes around animal health and well-being.

We work with individuals, groups and organisations to ensure working equine animals get the living and working conditions they deserve. With over 800 staff in the field we currently work in eleven countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The Brooke’s work also benefits poor people who rely on these animals for their livelihoods. The majority of working horses and donkeys are owned by individuals who use them to support their primary means of income to sustain often large and extended families. These animals are becoming ever more important in developing countries to alleviate poverty, assure food security and promote self-reliance.

Current situation - Egypt
Access to good quality, affordable vet services still remains a challenge for many working animals and their owners in these communities. This is because most established vet service providers simply do not provide the kind of specialist services that working horses, donkeys and mules need.

However, with the Brooke’s help, training and guidance, local healers, farriers, saddlers and owners are taking an active role in providing animal welfare and health services.


Making a difference
The goal of the Brooke’s programme in Egypt is to ensure measurable improvements are made in the welfare of working horses and mules.

Our programme in Egypt reaches out to 230 communities in seven regions: Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Edfu, Alexandria, Mersa Matruh and the Nile Delta


In 2009, and continuing in 2010 we will be:
•providing quality vet services through Brooke clinics and supporting and developing Local Health Providers (LHP) so they increase their responsibility for treatment and prevention
•training paravets and farriers in the communities in which we work
•improving animal welfare practices across all regions by providing pre-treatment training sessions; community meetings; and best donkey and horse competitions
•conducting regional welfare assessments to give evidence of improvements in the welfare of high-risk animals
•at a national level, we are carrying out animal-friendly research into:
◦respiratory diseases (Cairo)
◦tumours (Luxor)
◦de-worming


In 2009, we helped 115,000 working horses, donkeys and mules (across 230 communities) through our clinics and mobile teams; through training local health providers; and by carrying out community-based education work.
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Animal welfare of Luxor

Animal Welfare of Luxor is addressing a desperate need to educate the children of non-tourist Luxor in the proper care of their animals and the animals that work for their family.

AWOL is a small UK and Luxor registered Charity that works on the west bank of Luxor outside the tourist areas in the very poor farming villages of El Marise and Armant. Though we call them villages it is a very large area for AWOL to cover. It is hot, dirty and at times quite distressing but also very rewarding.

AWOL - because the children are the future.

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Animal Care In Luxor

Have you ever felt like your heart was going to break? That sensation when you see something you just can't imagine possible and you have no control over? That happened in the dusty back streets of Luxor, Egypt. Kim and her Aunt Julie, whilst on holiday, saw people struggling to feed their families and abusing their means to do so. Small underfed donkeys being beaten and suffering from neglect by owners who needed them so badly. What could be done?

Julie Wartenberg has always had a love for Egypt and strong interest in Egyptology, and kindly brought her Niece, Kim Taylor for various holidays to explore the country.

Kim Taylor was not really 'into' Egyptology, but was constantly looking at the condition of the working animals in the back streets of Luxor. So Kim and Julie devised a way to ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING about the things that they were seeing.

"In life we often see things that we would like to change, but to get the opportunity to totally change your life around and put your ideas into action is rare" ... Kim Taylor


Julie Wartenberg used her retirement package from IFAW as a set up cost for the new charity which enabled ACE to rent a small piece of land and build a washing area. As well as donating a large sum of her own money in towards the running costs in our first few years. Julie also worked tirelessly to organize all the paperwork needed to set up a charity in Egypt and the UK, along with relentlessly fundraising to ensure the future of ACE.

Why a washing area?
The one thing that stood out in Kim's mind amongst all the sad sights of Luxor was the saddle sores on the horses' and donkeys' backs. Most of the saddle sores are caused because dust, dirt and sweat accumulates under the tack, if it is washed off it will help to prevent the sores. Every day we told the owners of the horses and donkeys that their animals would be in a better condition with a little preventative care.

That was more than ten years ago and for the first few years Kim, who has been the Centre Manager, from the start, cried every day as she felt that, despite all the trying, ACE were getting nowhere.

Originally ACE was to be a preventative centre, but as we progressed we soon realised that, we needed to give a full Veterinary service also. For example, if a man came into ACE with an animal with a cut in its leg, this could and would not be sorted just by washing.

Julie and Kim wanted ACE to be more than a place where people could bring their horses and donkeys, for a roll in the sand pit, a shower and a drink of clean water. They wanted somewhere that could then offer a full check over by an out-patient vet so that problems could be identified, and proper treatment options made available by fully qualified vets.

These problems could then either be resolved in the out-patient clinic, or if necessary the animal could be admitted as an inpatient for treatment.

So now, ACE has a Veterinary Hospital which gives free veterinary care and treatment to all kinds of neglected and abused animals. ACE also runs an educational programme where up to 300 children a week come from local schools to learn that animals feel pain and should be treated with respect as they serve their human masters. ACE is doing all that we can to ensure better animal welfare standards in the future for all animals. But we need your help to continue …

ACE is an ever-growing, great team of professionals and volunteers all working towards the same goal - To relieve and prevent the suffering of the animals in Egypt.
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