Updates
October 2011: World Animal Day
World Animal Day was celebrated by Brooke Hospital for Animals - Pakistan on the 4th of October 2011, in which number of different events and awareness raising events such as Walks, Mobile and Static clinic orientations, Special awareness raising sessions for owners and their children's, speeches from students and Government livestock officials at its offices and clinics in Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan, Karachi, Sukkur, and Peshawar.
The Brooke in Pakistan is currently operating in 15 districts in all four provinces of Pakistan. The celebrations were organized to promote the cause to minimize sufferings in working animals and recognizing the services given by these defenceless and adorable creatures. A large number of school children, livestock department and partner organization (SRSO) representatives, Agriculture University Faisalabad, and animal owners participated in the celebrations.
World Animal Day Update In Detail
September 2011: The Brooke responds to floods in Sindh
Rains hit 21 districts of Sindh, but nine of them are highly affected: Badin, Mirpurkhas, Tharparkar, Tando Muhammad Khan, Tando Allahyar, Matiari, Umerkot, Sanghar and Benazirabad. Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Zafar Qadir said that 80 percent of crops in the floods-hit areas in Sindh Province have been washed away. Floods, caused by monsoon rains have affected four hundred thousand acres of land.
The Brooke team in consultation with partner organization TRDP and the Govt. Livestock department, arranged and held 16 camps at identified locations. Through these camps emergency treatment was provided to 1117 animals, vaccinated 160 and dewormed 1007
Details of the response here