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Network For Animals/HAHES
Networkforanimals.org
 HAHES gives equines in need a place of safety, love and a chance for a new life, through care, education and rehabilitation in rural parts of Africa. Supported are numerous abused donkeys and other equines. HAHES has involved successfully rescuing and rehabilitating 32 horses and three foals from drowning in Alexander Bay, uncovering a massive illegal bush racing ring, and rescuing more than 50 neglected equines found with their feet bound together with no access to water or shelter.
Donkeys are in crisis all around the world – suffering from abuse, neglect and, worst of all, slaughter at the hands of the horrific Chinese donkey skin trade.
This insatiable industry wipes out hundreds of thousands of donkeys every year so their skins can be used for a cosmetic called ejiao (pronounced “uh-jee-ow”), which has no proven benefit whatsoever. In Africa, donkeys are bludgeoned to death and sometimes even skinned alive. At the current level of slaughter, donkeys could be extinct within the next four years.
 Huge strides have been made toward ending the dreadful donkey-skin trade. Slaughterhouses in Tanzania and Kenya have been shut down; South African has revisited its laws on donkey slaughter, and now there is the banning of trade in Zimbabwe. Depleted donkey populations are being replenished and the conditions for working donkeys have gotten better in several parts of Africa. The grant will be used to build a paddock for Rest Ur Ass Donkey sanctuary to relocate donkeys from where they are no longer able to maintain. These paddocks play a crucial role in separating donkeys into groups andfacilitating rotational grazing, where different sections of land are grazed atintervals. This approach allows the land to recuperate and grass to regrow.
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