(25th 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.

Italian Horse Protection is supported thanks to private citizens’ donations and doesn’t receive any public contribution. Most of the assistance to the horses housed in our rescue centre is given by the constant presence of volunteers animated by an extraordinary passion.

Thanks to voluntary work we do this and much more...

In these three years we have promoted and supported international campaigns such as the still on-going 8HOURS and NOPALIO.

We have regularly attended horse exhibitions (especially Fieracavalli, RomaCavalli and Cavalli a Milano) to contrast the concept of animal use too often proposed in these events.

We have led investigations about horse meat and about the transportation of slaughter-bound horses.

We have greatly improved the structure and organization of the rescue centre, making it more efficient. New hay holder, built in economy, allowed a more rational food consume; careful maintenance work, changes to the fences, to water tubs and pipes have improved the general condition of the centre and allowed a regular rotation of the paddocks; the stable area (used only for the horses under medical care) has been enlarged; the purchase – thanks to many generous donations – of a hay-steamer allows us to feed in a safer (and cheaper) way our asthmatic horses; such precious gifts such a computer, shelving for the office and even a jeep have made our life easier.

IHP’s projects and task are multiplying...why don’t you give us a hand too?
You can volunteer in several ways: by working to the rescue centre, by collaborating to local fund-raising initiatives, or checking reports across Italy.
Contact us to get more information and become part of our team!

In the next newsletter (the last of this series), we will talk about our future goals for the horse protection: a long path we wish to walk with you.

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; or you help us to cover the travel costs to check abuse reports.
- With 500 euros you help us to buy vermifuge for about twenty horses or to buy feeding for about a month.

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.


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Support IHP, we tell you why: 3 - scientific work