Two lives are tied to one decision — and we cannot make the wrong one. This is the donkey who collapsed while pulling a heavily loaded cart. Today, he is safe with us. He is standing again. He is trying to walk again. But his hind legs are still weak and unstable, and one thing is absolutely clear: This donkey is NOT fit to return to work. We cannot send him back to a cart. We cannot put weight behind him again. We cannot wait for him to collapse a second time. But there is another side to this story. His owner came to our shelter today. He himself has a significant mobility impairment and walks with the help of a crutch. And this donkey was his means of earning a living. Since the rescue, he has been calling us repeatedly. He has come to the shelter because he needs his livelihood back. We understand that. But the answer cannot be to send this donkey back to work. So now we have only one humane solution: We must retire this donkey permanently and provide his owner with a specially adapted motorised cart so he can continue earning without ever depending on a working donkey again. This is exactly why TAWF created our Second Chance for Working Equines programme. It is not enough to rescue an exhausted animal for one night and then return him to the same cycle. We have to break that cycle. The donkey must stay safe. The owner must still have a way to earn. And another donkey must never be brought in to replace him. We need your help once again. This case has already touched thousands of people. You helped his story reach the world when he collapsed. Now we need you to help us finish his story properly. Please help us give this donkey the retirement he desperately needs — and give his owner a humane alternative livelihood. We cannot send him back to work. We will not send him back to work. Now we need your help to make sure he never has to work again. Please DONATE if you can. And please SHARE this post. One share can put this story in front of the person who can change both of their lives. ❤️ 🌐 Donate online: tawf.org.uk/donate

Ian is only a baby, and I honestly don’t know how a tiny body ends up like this. 💔 His leg has an almost 8-inch-long devastating wound, with tissue stripped away almost to the bone. The leg itself is so badly broken that it cannot be saved. And around his little neck is another deep wound consistent with severe rope injury. How? Why? I don’t know. And looking at Ian brings me back to Teddy. 💔 Another tiny baby who travelled so far to reach us only days ago. Teddy had a prolapse, an old broken leg that had already dried and healed backwards, a deep tunnel-like wound filled with maggots, infection and wounds across his little body. Almost every problem he arrived with was potentially life-threatening. We fought for him. But Teddy didn’t make it. 💔 I don’t have the heart to make another post announcing his death, so I’m saying goodbye to him here. And then there is Milan. ❤️ Almost the same age, looking so much like them—yet growing up beside his mother, safe, loved and enjoying the life every baby deserves. Now we fight for Ian. His leg needs to be amputated, but his young age, weakness and severe infection make the surgery and anaesthesia a serious challenge. We don’t know what his destiny will be. Please pray for him. 🙏 And if you can, help sponsor Ian’s blood tests, treatment, surgery, medicines and recovery. We couldn’t save Teddy. Please help us give Ian every possible chance. ❤️🐴 tawf.org.uk/donate

My heart breaks watching Lucky Star take one frightened step forward — and then immediately step back. 💔 Here, the ground has been specially levelled for him. There are gentle hands, hugs and people beside him. Yet he is still terrified to move. His body is covered in old cuts, scars and marks from a lifetime of work. Perhaps every step has taught him to expect pain — another blow, another wound, another piece of skin torn away. Maybe that is why, even now, he is afraid to move. And I cannot stop thinking: if this blind old horse is this frightened to take one step somewhere completely safe, how was he forced to work from morning until late at night? Since Wednesday, every tiny step has been an achievement. One by one, our team gently walks him around his new home, helping him learn that nothing here will hurt him. Our other blind equines now move freely and confidently around the sanctuary. One day, I want to see Lucky Star doing the same — walking without fear. ❤️ Please SHARE his journey and help us give animals like Lucky Star the life they should always have had. DONATE: tawf.org.uk/donate

Today, I have news I have been dreading to share. Ivory is gone. 💔 I know how many of you have been coming back every day, sometimes several times a day, asking, “How is Ivory?” We fought for her. She fought too. But her exhausted body could not fight anymore. And today, my heart is breaking for another reason too. This is Badl. And we lost him too. Badl had been discarded outside like a piece of broken furniture — still alive, but no longer wanted. He lay there for days, skeletal and helpless. Dirt filled his mouth and eyes. His body carried old and new pressure sores from lying and rubbing against the hard ground. Even the skin on his face was rubbed raw. Someone was watching him deteriorate. But the call to us came only when his life had minutes left. We wasted not a second. Our team rushed to him, lifted his dying body and raced towards the shelter. We almost made it. Just a few metres from our shelter — around the corner from safety — Badl took his last breath. That few metres is tearing my heart apart. When we contacted his owner, the response was simple: “Take him. We don’t want him back.” After a lifetime of being useful to humans, this was his ending. And this is where Ivory and Badl keep meeting in my mind tonight. We couldn't save Ivory either. But we had her for those precious final days. She had treatment. Pain relief. Food. A clean, safe place to rest. Hands that touched her gently. People beside her who cared whether she lived or died. She left this world knowing human kindness. Badl didn't even get that. If only that call had come a few days earlier. Even if we couldn't have saved him, we could have filled his stomach. Eased his pain. Cleaned the dirt from his eyes and mouth. Let him feel a gentle hand instead of the hard ground beneath his bones. We could have given him dignity before death. Please — REPORT EARLY. And if an animal has worked for you until his body can give no more, don't throw him outside to die. Call us. Give us the chance to help before his final breaths. Days like this break us. They steal our sleep. They leave us wondering how much more our hearts can carry. But then we remember: There is another Ivory somewhere. There is another Badl. And they still need us to keep going. Please stand with us. And above all, SHARE — because the next person who sees this may make that call in time. 💔🐴 tawf.org.uk/donate 🇵🇰 Pakistan Donations Allied Bank Limited TAHIRA ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION IBAN: PK72ABPA0010087294010017

HER NAME IS MASOOM. SHE IS ONLY FOUR. 💔🫏 Four years in this world — yet this precious little soul has already endured a lifetime of suffering. There is a way out. And it’s frighteningly simple. £5 HELPS. A SHARE COSTS NOTHING. 🔁 More shares → more helping hands → more Cart Exchanges → more donkeys FREE. Please help us reach the next donkey before four years become twenty. 💔 tawf.org.uk/donate