Continuous droughts and ongoing internal warfare in Afghanistan make it a challenging country for animal charities to accomplish much. However, since 2008, Brooke, the world’s largest international equine welfare charity, has been committed to helping the country's 1.7 million working horses and donkeys with a primary focus on improving animal welfare through changes in human behavior.

One of the areas in which Brooke has been making progress, is curbing the mutilation of donkeys. As is common in poor and remote communities with no access to outside healthcare for people or animals, equine owners resort to traditional, and often harmful, remedies for illness or injury.

It is still common in Afghanistan to see donkeys with slit nostrils – a very painful practice which is crudely accomplished using knives, scissors or other sharp objects without anesthesia…READ MORE

Photo: Donkey 1