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It all began with Nawas, a two-month old kitten with an eye infection left in a box just off Baghdad’s Nawas Street. Journalist Adrian Brune took him in hoping to find a vet and an animal shelter.
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Adrian found a vet who gave some bad care advice, and then she turned to a Facebook group, ExPETriates, for advice, At that point, she also realized that a lot of people didn’t know how to help and that Nawas had all sorts of canine and feline friends roaming the streets, looking for homes and safe spaces.
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Nawas got better. Adrian’s new friend, Ashley Curren, an NGO consultant, helped her foster him and the pair set up an animal saving network with Green Cross Animal Rescue, two trusted Baghdad vets and Amal Pets, a trusted pet hotel and transport operation run by a Syrian refugee.
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From there, the rescuing began in earnest and a website was built. The ISARO NGO is raising money for more land and more staff to save the roughly 4,000 cats and dogs unnecessarily killed in Iraq every month — sentient beings who will be a best friend with a little patience and TLC.
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Nawas is now safe and sound and headed to his new home in England soon. But he wants his interspecies friends from Iraq to be safe from those who abuse, abandon and ignore them. He asks that you open your hearts to the possibility of joining up with him.
FAQs
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Not yet. This is a work in progress. But there is an advantage to not being registered. All the money we raise goes straight to the animals and to employing people, keeping their businesses alive in a struggling global economy.
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By all means, tell us if you see a cat you want to help in particular or if you want your money to go to something such as sterilisation or housing. We will accommodate!
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Adrian and Ashley are veteran Iraqi guests, with Adrian doing work from London and Ash on the ground in London. Both have been involved in charities in Iraq for 10+ years, with Adrian bringing new running and ski clothes for children in refugee camps and Ash traveling around the country advising on food insecurity and heathy eating.
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International animal rescue is a patchwork of poorly funded local charities helping cats and dogs on the street. No international umbrella exists; neither does a United Nations agency. That said, by the time international agencies have used a donation, most of it has gone to admin and salaries, and about 5-10 percent is left to the animals. Our overhead is low, and both the vets and Ash and Adrian muck in and donate their own time, money and other resources to save these animals.