Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF
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TAWF is a UK-registered charity fighting for the forgotten animals of Pakistan—rescue, rehabilitation & sterilization. Join us in giving them a second chance.
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Meet Dusty 🤎 He stood quietly, exhausted, his little body worn from a life of hard labour. No voice. No complaint. Just tired eyes asking for kindness. Now he is safe at Second Chance, where no one will overload him again. Here, he will rest, heal, and finally feel what gentle hands mean. Working donkeys suffer silently every day. We cannot save them without support. Please help us continue rescuing souls like Dusty and give them the dignity they deserve. 💳 PayPal: | ❤️ Construction GoFundMe: | 🔗 Linktree: |
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF1,085,838 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
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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. 💔🐴 🇵🇰 Pakistan Donations Allied Bank Limited TAHIRA ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION IBAN: PK72ABPA0010087294010017
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF117,861 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
🕯️💔 My baby Pongo is gone. And a piece of my heart has gone with him. 🕯️ I don't know how to write this. I don't know how to accept that my beautiful boy, my baby, is no longer here. Pongo was just two days old when he came into my life. A terrible thunderstorm had separated him from his mother. We never discovered what happened to her. I raised him like a mother raises her child. He wasn't like other donkeys. He grew up in my office, surrounded by dogs, following me everywhere like a little puppy. ❤️ He was everyone's baby. The doctors adored him. Our entire team spoiled him rotten. Whenever he wanted milk, he would call out loudly until someone came running. And someone always did. For so long, he didn't even know life outside our little world. Only when he was much older did he finally move to live among the other donkeys. For over two beautiful years, Pongo was my child. 🫏❤️ Then, suddenly, he became ill. His blood tests revealed two dangerous blood parasites, Babesia and Theileria. We immediately began treatment. We tested his blood twice, desperately trying to understand why he was deteriorating so rapidly. Our veterinary team tried everything they could. But nothing seemed to help. He was slipping away from us frighteningly fast. 💔 Two days before he died, I held him tightly in my arms and cried. I kept begging him: Please get better. Please, Pongo. You're Mummy's whole world. You have to get better. You cannot leave Mummy. Somewhere deep inside, I was terrified that I was losing him. But I couldn't bear to believe it. And today, my beautiful boy left me. 💔 The little baby who followed me everywhere. The mischievous boy who demanded his milk. The darling of our doctors, our team, and my heart. I cannot imagine walking into my office knowing he will never come running towards me again. Today, I am sharing some of our precious memories with you. The little moments that meant everything to me, and now mean even more. I have spent my life rescuing animals, loving them, fighting for them. But some losses break you in ways words cannot explain. Pongo, my baby, Mummy tried so hard. I wanted so desperately to save you. You came into my life as a tiny, motherless newborn. I promised to be your mother, and I loved you with everything I had. I hope you felt that love every single day. 🕯️ Rest peacefully, my beautiful Pongo. You were never just a donkey. You were my baby. You always will be. 💔🕯️🌈
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF11,058 просмотров • 5 дней назад
I WISH YOU COULD HAVE SEEN WHAT I SAW TODAY. 🥹❤️🐾 I honestly cannot describe how happy I am. For days, we watched pieces of wood slowly turn into little houses for our rescued cats. My idea was simple — winter is coming, and I wanted them to have somewhere warm and cosy to curl up and sleep. But today, as our team started placing them inside the cat rooms, something happened that I never expected. THE CATS WENT CRAZY WITH EXCITEMENT! 😭❤️ The boys hadn’t even finished arranging them and the cats were already running over, climbing up, disappearing into one little room after another, peeking out, exploring and choosing their favourite spots. I stood there watching them and suddenly realised: We didn’t just build them warm beds. We gave them their own little world. ❤️ I thought I was simply creating protection from the winter cold. I had NO IDEA these houses would become their playground, hiding place, safe corner and favourite cosy place to be. Seeing them today made my heart feel as though it could burst. 🥹 To everyone who helped us build these — LOOK WHAT YOUR KINDNESS BECAME. And we are not finished yet. The houses still need painting and finishing, and our winter work still has a long way to go — more dog beds, winter protection for our donkey sheds, our heating system, and warm arrangements for the most vulnerable animals. We are building everything little by little, because that is how the funds are coming — a little arrives, we order the next materials, and the team gets back to work. I wish you could truly understand how much power you have. ❤️ A donation. A share. A repost. Something that may take only seconds for you can eventually become THIS — a frightened rescued animal running excitedly into a little home of their own. If we had enough help, we wouldn’t have to struggle inch by inch to finish before the cold becomes unbearable. Please help us keep going. Let’s finish what we started for them. 🙏❤️ ❄️ Winter Appeal: 🌐 Donate: And please SHARE — you may never know which share becomes the next warm bed, the next shelter, or the next moment of happiness like this. 🐱🏠❤️
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF16,713 просмотров • 9 дней назад
💔 HOW MANY DAYS WITHOUT FOOD? HOW MANY WITHOUT WATER? This is street life. At 10, Lola reached us skin & bone—severely dehydrated, anaemic and weak. We’re doing everything possible to save her and will update you when her blood results return. We can’t do this alone. FOLLOW + REPOST. Help us reach the next Lola before it’s too late. 🐾
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF101,356 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
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❤️ RESCUE UPDATE ❤️ Since yesterday, he had been lying beside the road in unbearable pain. He desperately tried to lower his head, just to find a moment of comfort, but he couldn't. Watching him struggle for something so simple broke my heart. Today, because of your kindness, he is finally on his way to TAWF. Our wonderful volunteers and the truck driver made sure he was lying comfortably on a bed of hay for the long journey. They covered the truck to protect him from the monsoon rain while leaving the sides open so fresh air could reach him throughout the journey. Before setting off, the driver promised us he would stop to buy fresh green fodder for him... and he did. He also made sure he was offered water, and our volunteers arranged first aid and pain relief to make this long journey a little more comfortable. He is expected to arrive at TAWF at around **3–4 a.m. tomorrow morning.** From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who has already helped make this rescue possible. ❤️ We still need your help. The transport cost must be paid when the truck arrives, and his emergency treatment will begin immediately. Please help us cover his transport and give him every possible chance to survive. 🙏❤️ ❤️ Linktree (All donation options):
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF109,297 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
yesterday, KARI’S OWNER CAME TO TAKE HIM BACK. 💔 Even his own owner couldn’t get near him. When I asked if he used to beat Kari, his answer broke me: “Only as much as necessary.” We did NOT send Kari back. His owner agreed to leave him with us permanently if we can provide a motorised cart — and we’re already more than halfway there. ❤️ Please SHARE and help us finish this. If donating for KARI or IVORY, please add their NAME as the reference so we can allocate your help correctly. 🙏
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF49,089 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Pearl arrived unable to stand completely drained of strength. When I offered her an apple, she didn’t even recognise it. She spat it out again and again, until she finally tasted it. Something she may never have experienced before. Suddenly, she sat up. She started eating fast, searching for more. Hunger had taken everything from her — but kindness brought her back. We immediately arranged fruits and vegetables for her. Pearl is safe now. She is eating. She is no longer alone. This is why rescue matters. This is why we never give up.
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF208,485 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад
WE CANNOT KEEP RESCUING THEM ONLY AFTER THEIR BODIES ARE BROKEN. 💔 Ivory is one painful example. A working equine can be used until her body has almost nothing left to give. Then she is discarded, we take her in and fight desperately to save what remains — while somewhere, another donkey may simply take her place. That cannot be the cycle we accept. Our purpose cannot only be to collect broken bodies at the end of horrific lives. We want to reach them before their bodies collapse, before their spirits are broken, before years of suffering become irreversible. And rescue alone is not enough. If we retire one donkey and the owner simply buys another, we have saved one life but we haven't stopped the suffering. That is why our Donkey Cart Exchange Project matters. We replace the animal-drawn cart with a motorised alternative, retire the working equine, remove the old cart, and secure a legal commitment that another donkey will not simply take their place. We don't just want to rescue the last donkey. We want to protect the next one. PLEASE SHARE this project. We need many helping hands to reach them before “rescue” becomes end-of-life care. 🫏❤️
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF32,364 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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I don’t think I have ever felt this desperate before 💔 Please, PLEASE SHARE this horse. I know so many of you have only just helped us buy Khari’s motor cart. I cannot ask you to give again. But I am begging you to help us carry this story onto new timelines — because somewhere, someone may be able to help us bring him home. He is completely blind. And while I am writing this, he is still working. Look at his body. The rub marks. The scars. The old wounds and the new ones. His owner himself says that because he cannot see, he gets injured again and again. He came to us only for treatment. We desperately wanted to keep him, but his owner supports a large family through his labour and cannot surrender him without an alternative livelihood. So every day it takes us to arrange a motor cart is another day this blind horse remains at work. Through TAWF’s Second Chance for Working Donkeys, we want to exchange his animal-drawn cart for a motor cart, bring him permanently to our sanctuary, and give him what he may never have known — safety, rest, kindness and dignity for the rest of his life. Please share him far and wide. Help us reach the person who can make his freedom possible. ❤️ 🌐 Please use “Motor Cart” as the donation reference.
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF28,879 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
HE ISN’T ANGRY. HE IS TERRIFIED OF THE HANDS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO CARE FOR HIM. 💔 When Kari developed a hoof problem, his owner treated it with hot oil — one of the dangerous home remedies commonly used on working donkeys here. When it didn’t improve, he repeated it, eventually pouring extremely hot oil over the hoof. Kari’s pain became worse, yet he was still made to work. When the owner wouldn’t bring him for treatment, our team went to get him. Even then, he wanted Kari treated quickly and taken straight back to work. We pleaded and managed to buy him only a few days. Two kind-hearted souls have already sent help towards a motorised cart, but we are still far from the amount needed to secure his freedom. Please SHARE KARI. Even if you cannot donate, your share may reach someone who can. HELP US TURN HIS AGONY INTO A LIFETIME OF FREEDOM. 🫏❤️
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF32,960 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
THEY TRAVELLED 10 KM LIKE LUGGAGE. 💔 A skeletal mother was brought to us on a motorbike, stuffed inside a plastic sack. Her tiny puppies were crammed together in a shopping bag — in this heat. The baby trapped at the bottom took frighteningly long to recover. Mum is terrified, covered in ticks and painfully thin. Her little fur balls have severe ringworm across their bodies. They had only just arrived when this was filmed. Treatment began immediately, and this little family is now safely in quarantine. ❤️ Tomorrow, I’ll show you more. Please SHARE — help us find more helping hands for them and the next lives arriving at our doors.
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💔 AFTER 12 YEARS OF SUFFERING, IT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO LET HER STORY GO UNSEEN. Please SHARE her story so the world can see what a working donkey can silently endure. And if someone would like to SPONSOR her diagnostic tests and prolonged treatment, please come forward. 🙏🫏 Until today, she was still being made to work—almost blind, dehydrated, walking painfully on overgrown and cracked hooves, with a partially luxated shoulder. We may never know everything she endured, but her body carries the evidence of years of hard labour. Our vets and equine specialists are concerned that prolonged pressure from heavy loads and poorly fitted harnessing may have caused chronic damage around her neck and shoulders—not only to the skin, but potentially to deeper soft tissues and structures beneath. Her owner also told us that her front legs became trapped in deep mud while carrying a load, which may have caused further trauma. Today we started treatment, gave her IV fluids and encouraged her to drink. ❤️ Tomorrow, further examinations and diagnostics will begin to understand the full extent of the damage to her shoulder, limbs and eyes. She has suffered unseen for long enough. Please don’t let her story remain unseen too. 💔 And she arrived without a name. ❤️ What should we call this beautiful girl? Please leave your name suggestions in the comments—we would love you to help choose the name she will carry into her new life. 🫏 🔁 SHARE + FOLLOW her journey. 🌐
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF36,648 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
This is the face of street life under culling. This mother was living with her puppies in an under-construction building where dogs and cats in the area were poisoned. She survived only with great difficulty. We may never know whether her puppies were poisoned directly or through her milk after she was exposed — but almost all of them died. Only this mother and one puppy survived. Now she sits with her face pressed against the wall, terrified of humans. That fear says everything about what these voiceless animals experience at our hands. Street suffering will not end through poisoning or culling. Mass sterilisation is the humane and effective way to stop this cycle. Please help us protect and sterilise more street animals:
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF24,580 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
HOW HEARTLESS HAVE WE BECOME? 💔 Meet IVORY — a beautiful white mare brought to us from a neighbouring city, now reduced to skin and bones, her body covered in wounds. Even now, her owner wants her well enough to sell her again. Ivory is repeatedly throwing her head from side to side. This could have several causes — pain, problems involving her ears, eyes or mouth, or something neurological. Her investigations are underway, and we’ll share her test results tomorrow. ANIMALS ARE NOT MACHINES. CARE MUST BEGIN BEFORE THEIR BODIES BREAK. Ivory is safe with us now. Please SHARE — wider reach means more helping hands for Ivory and the next animal who needs us. 💔🐴
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF24,794 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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:
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF10,686 просмотров • 23 дней назад
“PLEASE don’t send Ivory back.” We hear you. But many of you only yesterday gave what you could towards Kari’s motorised cart. We cannot keep asking the same small TAWF family to fund every equine. So help us GROW this family: REPOST. Bring us more helping hands. 💔 We don’t want to send Ivory back either. And we will do everything within our power to prevent it. But we will not pay her owner cash to “buy” her. That only gives him money to go out and buy another horse or donkey, and the same cycle begins again. Our solution is our Cart Exchange Project. We replace the animal-drawn cart with a motorised cart. In exchange, the working equine permanently retires into our care, and the owner signs a legal agreement that he will never keep another working equine again. One motorised cart doesn’t just save Ivory. It can stop the next Ivory from ever taking her place. This is why we need to grow beyond the same compassionate people who already carry so much of our work. Some supporters have sponsored entire carts. Others have helped fund them together with small donations. Every amount matters—but the same people cannot fund cart after cart, animal after animal. What you can do every single time costs nothing: REPOST. SHARE. FOLLOW. Bring one more person into the TAWF family. More people = more helping hands. More helping hands = more motorised carts. More carts = more equines permanently retired before they reach the condition of Ivory and Kari. Please help us make this family as big as the suffering we are trying to fight. ❤️🐴
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF21,181 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
HIS NAME IS STERLING. HE IS around 20YEARS OLD. 💔🫏 Someone decorated his body with henna… while his hooves were left to grow, twist and break beneath him. Chronic laminitis. Deformed feet. Infected wounds. Plastic rope buried so deeply into his legs that pieces are still embedded in the wounds. Sterling is safe now. But I keep thinking about the donkeys we haven’t reached yet. This is why our Donkey Cart Exchange Project matters. Replace the donkey cart with a motorised cart. Retire the donkey BEFORE his body is destroyed. 🔁 PLEASE SHARE. We need a MUCH bigger family of helping hands to fund these costly motorised carts and reach working donkeys before they become another Sterling. Your SHARE could put this on the timeline of the person who helps us free the next one.
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF21,134 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
After years of relentless labor, starvation, and neglect, Everest was left to die when his body gave up. Now, as he fights for survival, his cruel owner wants him back—to enslave him again. But never again. Everest’s suffering ends here. He is safe, loved, and finally free. 🌐 💳 ❤️
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF117,116 просмотров • 1 год назад
Millie gave birth while burning with fever. She was so sick, and within 24 hours all four of her babies were gone. We don’t know what horrors her pregnancy held before she reached us. Millie cried for her kittens. Then another tragedy arrived. Tiny kittens found crying on a garbage heap, torn away from their mother and thrown away like rubbish. This is heartbreakingly common. When a pet cat gives birth, many people simply take the babies and dump them in bags, on garbage piles, or empty plots. But when these kittens were placed beside Millie… something beautiful happened. Millie stopped crying. She pulled them close and began caring for them as if they were always hers. Two broken stories met — and somehow created a little miracle. This is why sterilisation matters. Without it, mothers suffer, babies die, and innocent lives are thrown away. Please help us continue rescuing, treating, and sterilising so this cycle of cruelty can finally end. 💳 PayPal: ❤️ 🔗
Tahira Animal Welfare Foundation - TAWF52,317 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад