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IHP is on the move! A new premises, a huge new Rescue Centre, and so many projects for the future

22/11/2018

(22 November 2018)

Great news for the horses: Italian Horse Protection has found a new, big, functional permanent home, one which will enable us to increase the Association’s initiatives for horse welfare. The biggest challenge is to prepare the buildings and the fencing of the huge pastures, and to move the Rescue Centre’s 66 equine guests there – no small undertaking, and one for which IHP is launching a fundraising campaign under the name of Buonacausa.org.

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A few weeks ago, Sonny Richichi, President and founder of IHP, received the most wonderful phone call of his life: the offer to take the association to a new home, a magnificent place recently acquired by Janine and Leonardo Musso, IHP supporters from its very beginnings.

Antico Borgo di Tignano is a property complex dating back to 1600, situated between Volterra and San Gimignano, and about 40 KM from the current IHP location. It comprises a holiday hospitality centre with a Tuscan restaurant and wellbeing facilities; next door to this is a working farm which in the past was also a stud farm, with first-class facilities and over 600 acres of land, mostly favourable for pastureland and for hay, with some sparsely wooded areas that are accessible to the horses.

These new premises will host the Rescue Centre, its staff and offices, and include a large conference room, which can also be used for seminars and courses. This, for the Association, is a dream come true, the gleaming reward for so much struggle and hardship, opening the way to fully realising old projects, and embracing new ones. IHP works for the whole Italian territory for the welfare of horses and other equids, combatting abuse and mistreatment, and working for a change in the laws of the country, and the cultural outlook, which will bring about the formal recognition of the rights of equids. IHP also rescues and rehabilitates mistreated equines, including those legally seized.

“We will never be able to fully express the extent of our gratitude to Janine and Leonardo Musso for their generous offer”, affirms Sonny Richichi, President of Italian Horse Protection Onlus. “The grounds and the facilities are ideal for the Centre’s exigencies, taking into consideration that we currently host 66 equids presenting various different needs: for example we have a considerable number of senior horses, some well over 30, two blind horses, and quite a few with chronic pathologies requiring very specific care and medication. Not least, we will at last no longer have the millstone of rent around our necks, a financial burden which weighed heavy and drained vital resources away from our many welfare and education projects.”

Every medal has its reverse side: the move will be a very complex operation, with substantial financial costs for the fencing of the paddocks, and the transportation of the animals. So we have set up a fundraising platform entitled Buonacausa.org “Trasloco di IHP e dei cavalli del Centro di recupero”: just think, a donation of €10 will buy two solid chestnut-wood poles for the fencing; €25 will buy five chestnut-wood rails; €50 will provide two rubber mats for the infirmary; €100 will transport two horses to the new Centre. IHP is also now taking commitments from voluntary workers to build fences and shelters, help with the horse transport, acquisition of various construction materials, and the clearing and setting up of the new fields and facilities – anyone interested should contact us via e-mail at ihp@horseprotection.it or by phoning either of these numbers: 0571 677082 – 327 9041393.

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