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. ❤️
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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. ❤️
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Please use “Motor Cart” as the donation reference.
Listen. Symone and Eugene know. This is an act. Eugene is paid to have that confused look on his face. Symone is paid to redirect the attention back to Hasan instead of the apartheid he just mentioned. They’re actors. If they told the truth they wouldn’t be in those seats.
. @LauraLoomer When referring to me, it’s Representative Angie Nixon. However after November 3rd, YOU CAN CALL ME SENATOR!
Folks. Donate if you want to see this happen at https://t.co/9rPoNwliLD
actually a perfect example of how rape culture operates. bookmarking this clip for future use in educational streams on rape culture, specifically the role that media plays. thanks Ana for exemplifying such vile rape apologia and textbook victim blaming 👍🏼
Elect someone who has a heart for the people.
I'm a grandmother in California using my little microphone to maybe reach and motivate 20 voters in New York who were going to sit this one out.
Your vote matters to us all.
Change is contagious.
Darializa Avila Chevalier for New York’s 13th Congressional District.
There's Nothing We Can't Do Together!
@DarializaforNY
Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money.
Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire.
Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region.
And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13.
Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election.
And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.
📍 UPDATE — 20 June | 9:00 PM
Whizz is still at the shelter and available for rescue placement only due to his fearful behavior.
He has been given a short extension.
Please consider helping or sharing so he gets a chance to be saved. 🐾
Yahudi İzleyici: (ağlayarak) Konuşmanız sırasında Yahudilere yönelik birçok kez Nazi benzetmesi yaptınız. Bu son derece incitici. Bu, Nazi rejimi altında gerçekten acı çekmiş olan insanlar için çok aşağılayıcı.
Norman Finkelstein cevap veriyor:
— Bu tavra artık saygı duymuyorum. Gerçekten duymuyorum. Bu timsah gözyaşlarından hoşlanmıyorum ve onlara saygı da duymuyorum. (Dinleyicilerden alkışlar ve yuhalamalar yükselir)
— Yabancı bir dinleyici kitlesi önünde "Holokost kartını" oynamaktan hoşlanmıyorum ama şu an kendimi buna mecbur hissediyorum. Rahmetli babam Auschwitz'deydi. Rahmetli annem Majdanek toplama kampındaydı. Ailemin her iki taraftan da tüm üyeleri katledildi. Annem ve babam Varşova Gettosu Ayaklanması'na katıldılar.
— İşte tam da annem ve babamın bana ve iki kardeşime öğrettikleri dersler nedeniyle, İsrail'in Filistinlilere karşı işlediği suçlar karşısında sessiz kalmayacağım! Onların acılarını ve ölümlerini kullanarak; İsrail'in her gün Filistinlilere karşı işlediği işkence, vahşet ve ev yıkma suçlarını meşru göstermeye çalışmaktan daha aşağılık bir şey düşünemiyorum!
— Bu yüzden artık bu gözyaşlarıyla sindirilmeyi veya baskılanmayı reddediyorum. Eğer zerre vicdanın olsaydı, burada döktüğün o gözyaşlarını Filistinliler için döküyor olurdun!