With help from your wonderful donations, Zambezi Working Donkey Project (ZWDP) in Livingstone, Zambia, helped just over 1000 working donkeys in May. This is an incredible 65.8% increase from last year! Your support is allowing many more donkeys to receive regular care and treatment.

Thanks to our fantastic supporters, Blind Love in South Africa could treat 44 working donkeys and 110 cart horses during their May outreach days.

At Animal Nepal’s sanctuary, providing lifelong care for animals means attending not only to their immediate needs but also to their long-term health and comfort. One essential aspect of this care is regular hoof trimming. Overgrown or misshapen hooves can cause a range of serious problems, including pain while walking or standing, joint stress and long-term deformities, increased vulnerability to infections such as foot rot and difficulty grazing or foraging naturally. 

We are proud to introduce a new partner group in Malawi – the Lilongwe Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (LSPCA). Thanks to your generous support, the LSPCA are already improving the welfare of working donkeys in rural Malawi.

With your fantastic support, Animal Aid Unlimited (AAU) are able to provide care for 15 rescued donkeys at their primary sanctuary, along with 10 donkeys at their Animal Birth Control (ABC) Centre in Udaipur, India.

At Help in Suffering’s Camel Rescue Centre (CRC), the vet team treated 484 camels during April. Conditions treated included colic, skin disease, worms and wounds. Two of the camels’ stories are below:

For the months of May and June 2025, Animal Aid Abroad (AAA) is shining a light on the working gold mine donkeys of the Geita region in Tanzania, Africa. On World Donkey Day (May 8), we not only highlighted the need for greater attention to the plight of working donkeys in developing countries, but we also aimed to tell the story of the gold mine donkeys in Tanzania.

With assistance from your compassionate donations, Action for Protection of Wild Animals (APOWA) provided veterinary care for 104 horses and oxen in April. These working animals were treated for injuries and illnesses, and given general health checks through their mobile clinic. Preventative vaccinations were administered to 119 animals.

During April, our South African partner organisation, Blind Love, treated 21 donkeys and 186 horses at their outreach days. Sadly, they are still dealing with African horse sickness (AHS), which has led to the state vet banning any movement of horses in an attempt to curb the spread. Thankfully, none of the cart horses living in Thaba’nchu town have been affected by AHS so far.

In Israel, our partner group Starting Over are continuing to care for donkeys who have often been rescued from desperate situations.

They have expressed their deepest gratitude for your compassionate support, which is changing lives and helping donkeys to heal from illness or trauma.