(15th October 2012)

Our association’s third birthday is around the corner: with this newsletter in “instalments” we want to tell you about our success and future projects, to explain how we translate your support in concrete facts.

One of our aims is the improvement of the relationship between humans and equines by the mean of information and extensive and pointed divulgation. Far too often people relate with the horses in a wrong way and paradoxically, even acting in good faith and with the best of intentions, they end up causing suffering to the animals. Almost always, it is a cultural lack, tied to a world in which, for many, many years, have been used methods and practices based on a scarce knowledge of the horse.

Thus we develop various initiatives of divulgation, based on the study of the equine behaviour and on the modality of relation and learning, thanks to Professor Paolo Baragli’s competence.

Formation courses, in-depth articles on our site, pamphlets and flyers are just a few example of our intense work, aimed to improve the life of many horses in our country.

We also have signed collaborations with three Italians universities (Pisa, Parma and Milan) and a Swedish school. We also have a more than two years long partnership with the British association AISPA.

On another scientific front, a veterinary one, where is our long battle to modify Italy’s current legislation about Equine Infectious Anaemia. Among the other things, we have created the first Italian centre for the management in freedom of EIA-positive horses. Thanks to our work Solanos, Quercia, Ritsma and many other horses have escaped an unjustified death and live happy, free and in full health. Instead, we are still fighting to free Rocket from an illegitimate sanitary sequestration.

In the next newsletter we will talk about voluntary work and the many ways to collaborate with us, from the work in our rescue centre to the control across Italy.

In the meantime, take a look at the many ways you can help us: we are supported only by free donations, that’s why we ask for your indispensible help.

Every donation, no matter the amount, is always precious for us. Some examples?

- With 5 euros you provide for four days the drugs our pony Arturo – affected by a grave form of asthma—needs to survive ;
- With 10 euros you contribute to buy two rolls of elastic bandage or two bags of “wafer” hay for our older horses;
- With 20 euros you pay for the fuel our tractor uses in six days;
- With 50 euros, you help us to buy a bale of hay or a box of antibiotics;
- With 100 euros you provide for about eight months the drugs our little Miranda – affected by Cushing’s disease—needs to survive ; or you help us to print 1.000 flyers to be distributed in riding centres, events and fairs;
- With 500 euros you help us to buy vermifuge for about twenty horses.

You can also choose to distant adopt one of the horses we saved: click here to know them and read the adoption methods.

To help us and in the meantime give yourself a touch of elegance, why don’t you buy a piece of clothing “signed” by IHP? Click here to see them.

If instead you want to give us a special gift or have the chance to find stuff we need at very low prices, this is our “wish list”, some things we would find very useful but we can’t afford right now:

- wooden boards to enlarge the stable area and to build a shed;
- rubber pavement for the stables;
- one or more storage tanks for rain water;
- one hedge trimmer;
- two wheelbarrows;
- four mud tires for your jeep;
- two desk PC’s for our office;
- one 2-horse trailer to transport horses;
- one digger.


Related newsletters:
Support IHP, we tell you why: 1-our mission
Support IHP, we tell you why: 2-denounces and sequestrations
Support IHP, we tell you why: 3-voluntary work