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World Animal Day 2023

Wednesday 4th October was World Animal Day 2023 and it was a busy one for Nowzad teams this year!

Our vets in Kabul spent the day at one of Kabul’s brick kilns vaccinating lots of working horses and donkeys there, providing free water troughs and even building portable stables to offer some protection to the animals from the sun’s relentless heat.  See: https://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/events/promoting-horse-and-donkey-welfare-at-kabuls-brick-kilns-nowzad/

Our Nowzad staff in Ukraine organised two training seminars at the Lviv University Veterinary Faculty on animal emergency aid and a brand new animal electronic identification system specially developed for use in Ukraine by our Australian partner AWAMO. See:

https://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/events/nowzad-animal-first-aid-seminar-and-training-lviv-university-ukraine/

https://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/events/nowzad-training-seminar-on-electronic-animal-id-system-for-use-in-ukraine/

Back here in the UK, our Raise 4 Nowzad Team has launched a special online Christmas auction running through October, specifically to raise money for World Animal Day and the animal shelters Nowzad supports. Please see the following link and join the facebook group to raise some money! https://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/events/special-raise-4-nowzad-auction-for-world-animal-day/

Thank you to everyone for taking part and dedicating this special day of the year to honour the world’s animals - big and small!

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Meet Maqbola for today’s Sponsor Spotlight, one of our cherished residents at the Maverick Donkey Sanctuary in Kabul! Thanks to the generosity of all of you wonderful sponsors, this beautiful girl spends her days safe from the harsh streets, enjoying plenty of nutritious food, dedicated veterinary care, & all the affection she deserves. Want to help keep Maqbola happy & healthy? Please do think about becoming one of her Nowzad Animal Heroes for just £4 a month (or £39.99 for a full year).
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The gift that keeps on giving….and yes, we will go on to talk about our wonderful fundraisers, but when you see this video, you’ll also see that we could be referring to Pen’s comedy moments too 😆 Thank you so much to Ann and the incredible ‘Raise 4 Nowzad’ group who continue to work miracles & keep raising funds for the animals in our care. Here are some of our residents at The Maverick Horse & Donkey Sanctuary in Kabul, Afghanistan, enjoying their new scratching poles & enrichment supplies
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