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In
Southern Afghanistan,
where
desert meets mountains, lies the small war torn town of Now Zad.
Here during late 2006 a group of Royal Marines attempted to look
after several stray dogs that had been abandoned by their owners. The
choice of leaving them to fend for themselves was not an option, the
dogs were scared, lonely and in a poor state of health. The dogs
became the Marines' companions for the 3 months they spent in the
small town facing the daily threat of attack.
The
dogs became known as "Nowzad", "Jena",
"RPG", "AK", "Tali", "Dushka"
and "Patches". An Afghan dog's life is not one of comfort
at the best of times; most of the day is spent hunting for scraps of
food or hiding from the hot desert sun during the summer and the
freezing cold of an Afghan winter night.
There
is no pampered pet status in Afghanistan. When their tour of duty in
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With
the fantastic support from fellow animal lovers the world over, they
managed to rescue "Jena", "Nowzad",
"Tali" and "Helmand" to safety in the US and UK
and the Nowzad Dogs charity was formed, Registered
Charity Number 1119185.
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The
Nowzad Dogs have a special meaning for all us - they represent the
dogs and animals of the world that have no voice and no hope. |
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We
know that we cannot bring all the stray dogs of Afghanistan back to
the UK but we can help support those soldiers who find themselves
trying to look after the Afghan strays
that seem to have no hope and by further funding the vital work of
the Afghan rescue by helping them with their educational programme
for children, free neutering programme for stray dogs and cats bought
into the rescue and to help with the further welfare and local re-homing
of rescued animals. We also support the Mayhew Animal Homes'
training programme for vets from developing countries who are working
to help the animals in their local communities.
We have started
small but with your help we can only get bigger! Nobody involved with
"Nowzad Dogs" is paid for their time - all the money you
donate goes directly towards helping the dogs (and cats) in need
while raising awareness of the problems that homeless dogs, wherever
they are in the world, can and do face. Please click here
to see how you can donate and help us.
Every
little we do helps, because we are not just walking away and we hope
you won't too.
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us at
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