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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