The life of Afghan and Iraqi animals is not one of comfort at the best of times; most of the day is spent hunting for scraps of food or hiding from the hot desert sun during the summer or the freezing cold of a desert winter night. There is definitely no pampered pet status in Afghanistan or Iraq.
The Nowzad Dogs charity has been formed to do something positive for the cats, dogs and other animals of Afghanistan and Iraq that have no hope and nobody to care for them. We realise we cannot transport all of the stray dogs of Afghanistan and Iraq to loving homes, but we will do our best to promote animal welfare and to assist in vital animal aid work that is so desperately needed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
All money donated goes directly to helping the animals of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Other Projects
Horses & Donkeys
Horses and Donkeys are used widely as working animals in Afghanistan but all too often they will suffer painful injuries caused by poorly fitting head collars and harnesses that are made from chains. We can help prevent these injuries by providing simple, homemade fabric covers hat fit over the chains making them more comfortable for the animal to wear and preventing injury. The more colourful the better! Please click here to download the instructions PDF.
Trap-Neuter-Release Programme
The Nowzad charity is currently working towards a range of initiatives and programmes to improve animal welfare in Afghanistan.
All of our goals are not just about benefiting the animals that have no voice but also to educate and advance the welfare of the Afghan people.
Currently Afghanistan has an epidemic stray dog problem. Temporary programmes to reduce the dog population by poisoning and shooting are proven ineffective methods. As a charity we intend to introduce a trial ‘trap-neuter-release’ programme in one of the main cities of Afghanistan. This will have the added benefit of combating one of the more deadly diseases that inhabits Afghanistan and affects both people and animals – rabies.
A feral dog’s life is hard and short. Surviving on just the scraps of food that they can scavenge from the streets, they live an existence a million miles away from the pampered lifestyles of the majority of their Western cousins. With unbearable hot summers and savagely cold winters the prospects are not good for an Afghan dog.
Sadly this all takes money to put in place. Please donate here to support this program.
Support us
Fundraisers
‘Walk to Nowzad’ has been launched! Can you and your four legged friends get outdoors and put some miles in for a great cause? No matter where you live in the world please organise some friends, grab the dog leads (or your cat lead!) and let’s get walking for the strays of Afghanistan.
We hope you will be able to walk a mile or more between the 18th September to 3rd October 2010. If together we can walk 3631 miles then we have walked the distance from where Nowzad lives now to his home town of Now Zad in Afghanistan!
If you and your canine buddy would like to walk to Nowzad then please download the application form below or email Melissa here. Nowzad will be doing his bit and walking on Dartmoor (near Princetown) on Sunday 26th September. Please let Melissa know if you want to come along with him.
USA/International Application Form
Buy Books
Help us to support these programs as well as the rescues by buying a copy of Pen’s book’s ‘One Dog at a Time’ and ‘No Place like Home’.
Please ring the number on the form to pay by card or if you live outside the UK – thank you!
Also remember to check out Pen’s video of his trip to the Afghan Rescue here
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
Mahatma Gandhi
