About the Brooke
The Brooke is an international animal welfare organisation dedicated to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys and mules in some of the world’s poorest communities. We provide treatment, training and programmes around animal health and wellbeing, operating across Africa, Asia and Latin America and last year helped over 900,000 working animals and the families that depend on them.
We were founded in 1934 by Dorothy Brooke, who was shocked at the plight of the ex-war horses she encountered on a visit to Egypt. These poor old First World War heroes had been sold into hard labour in Cairo’s streets. Poorly cared for, they were very old and many were in terrible pain. With donations from the British public, Mrs Brooke bought 5,000 of these exhausted animals – and went on to set up our first free veterinary clinic, the ‘Old War Horse Memorial Hospital’ in Cairo, which still operates today.
If you’d like to know more about the ways that the Brooke is helping working animals in the developing world, or if you’d like to support our work further, please call us on 020 3012 3456 or visit www.thebrooke.org
