The Nowzad charity delivers animal welfare in Afghanistan and Ukraine. Our clinic in Kabul has reopened delivering vital support to over worked horses and donkeys toiling on the streets of Kabul whilst providing care and treatment to injured animals; mainly cats and dogs. Read more. In Ukraine during this devastating conflict caused by Russia’s illegal invasion, the Nowzad charity is delivering vital aid via our headquarters in Lviv, to those in desperate need of animal supplies in the east and south of the country. Read more.
To relieve the suffering of animals; including companion animals, working equines, stray and abandoned dogs and cats and all other animals in need of care and attention, and to provide and maintain where possible; rescue, rehabilitation and education facilities for the care and treatment of such animals with no voice but ours.
There are moments in rescue work when you look at an animal and realise they are down to their final few days. That was exactly the situation last month at the brick kilns when our team found two horses who had simply nothing left to give.
In the bustling, often unforgiving streets of Kabul, survival is a daily battle for the stray animals who call it home. For a small, spirited dog named Sparky, that battle almost ended in December 2024.
Do you remember Beauty and Grace? Both rescued from the horrors of an Afghan brick kiln, these two arrived at Maverick’s Donkey Sanctuary in late summer 2025, very weak and wounded.