Where Your Donation Goes - Animal
Welfare of Luxor - Egypt
As a Charity registered both in the UK and Egypt
we put your donation directly to improving the lives of the animals. All Trustees and supporters care deeply for the animals and all give
their time and efforts without charge for the betterment of all.
You may think that a regular monthly donation
to Animal Welfare of Luxor of just £10 will not make much of a difference to the lives of the animals but as we believe
in buying all that we can locally your £10 will supply 10 AWOL soft head collars making the lives of 10 donkeys much better. A major advantage to the donkeys is that if we buy  it locally
then it can be replaced locally so we are making permanent changes to animal welfare whereas if we buy a head collar
for a horse or donkey in the UK then it is not just the cost it
is the size as horses and donkeys tend to be smaller in Egypt with narrower
faces but we also have to get it to Luxor
and, just in case you hadn't noticed, this is a very hot country
so lots of metal buckles against the skin is not a good idea and plastic ones cannot take the heat. Once
the head collar from the UK breaks the owner would just come back to us
asking for another one as it is so different to anything he can get locally.
A roll of local webbing makes approximately
8 donkey head collars (depending on the size of the donkey) which we stitch together to fit the animal using two strong metal rings where the reins are attached. Each AWOL head collar eases the suffering of a donkey and costs just £1. We exchange an AWOL head collar free of charge for the chain or wire they use around the donkey's nose and once they have this locally made head collar it is easy for them
to repair or replace it themselves and there is the added advantage
that there are no metal buckles and as AWOL buys locally we also support the local
economy.
AWOL's Biggest Expense - Medicine
 Our full time
vet Dr Mohammed is a great asset to AWOL. He is highly qualified and very dedicated. AWOL can solve many problems from reoccurring through good tack and education but we have to get the animals well as quickly as possible and educate the owner to keep them well.
Quality medicines are very expensive here and currently AWOL is spending well over £1000 a month, often much more, on medicines alone which is a vast sum for a small charity. We never turn any animal in need away so please consider a regular donation by Standing Order so that we can plan ahead.
For ticks on dogs and mange on donkeys and horses we use Pfizer Dectomax which we buy locally and costs us 150le (approximately £16) for a 50 ml bottle. This is sufficient for the first treatment for three to four donkeys or horses suffering from mange depending on the severity of the attack and the size of the animal but they then require a second treatment of the same two weeks later. We must also ensure that the owner is given education, sulphur soap (3le) and two pots of sulphur ointment (4le each) or if it is a really severe attack then they have one Mangeside (10le) instead of the sulphur ointment with the first injection and another with the second treatment. Making the average cost of the full treatment for mange on a donkey or horse cost around 90le or just under £10.
For ticks on dogs, after we have removed all the ticks that we can, we inject Pfizer Dectomax and on average a 50 ml bottle treats 10 dogs for ticks but the injection also kills any intestinal worms that they may have and rids them of fleas so it is sort of a wonder drug for dogs. Normally one injection is sufficient so the average cost of treatment for ticks, worms and fleas on a dog is around 15le or £1.70.
It is a very useful and effective drug but also quite expensive by Egyptian standards.
Tourist Luxor does not reflect just how little the people live on outside the tourist area in El Marise and Armant where AWOL works so hard. The United Nations World Food Programme web site in February 2011 stated that "Egypt is a low-income, food-deficit country, with 19.6 percent of the population – almost 14.2 million people – living below the lower poverty line, on less than US$1/day" or to put it another way about 64 pence a day making the cost of good medicine for their animals beyond what they can afford.
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