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Thanks to a public appeal in the UK and USA, Brooke and its sister organisation Brooke USA was able to provide food, water and emergency veterinary treatment to over 300 working equines living in the areas worst affected by June’s Fuego volcano eruptions.
Brooke West Africa conducted a study into the contribution of working equines to the Senegal economy.
Brooke Action for Working Horses and Donkeys attended the 86th World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) General Session this week, 20 – 25 May, championing the needs of working animals.
Local communites help reduce donkey theft in Kenya by entering "Protect your donkey and win" competition.
Dr Mactar Seck has been presented with a prestigious animal welfare award from the World Veterinary Association and CEVA for his veterinary work with equine welfare charity Brooke.
The world’s furthest reaching welfare assessment tool for horses, donkeys and mules, developed by Brooke has been published by PLOS ONE, the research journal.
Brooke has launched an Every Horse Remembered pin badge to mark the end of the First World War, and announced ambassadors for the campaign.
Harry Meade, Alice Oppenheimer and Laura Renwick joined Hannah Russell and Little Alf the miniature Shetland, as well as US Instagram sensation Muledragger as Every Horse Remembered Ambassadors.
In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of toil and misery.
Brooke has been granted Specialized Consultative Status with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO).
Brooke, Action for Working Horses and Donkeys has now rolled out the second version of the BrookeCheck tablet app to staff in India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Kenya, and greatly expanded the functionality of the software.
