10WSPA NEWS | ISSUE 3 Gentle touch: Nop Rinda examines a patient at the mobile clinic. In March, we asked you to give to our Cambodian ponies appeal. Your response was fantastic – more than £ 100,000 was raised. These donations have funded a mobile veterinary clinic and trained two newly graduated Cambodian vets – Hang Piseth and Nop Rinda – in equine veterinary care. They are now treating ponies around Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. The project also educates owners in pony care and harnessing and trains farriers in shoeing and hoof trimming techniques. Many Cambodian ponies suffer terribly from lameness because of poor hoof care and rubber shoes, instead of well-fitting metal shoes. Ponies often work from dawn to dusk with little chance to rest. WSPA Asia veterinary programmes manager Kate Blaszak describes the suffering: " When the team first visited Cambodia to investigate setting up the project, they saw several ponies in terrible pain. They had severe wounds due to poor harnesses and were very lame. The owners could not rest the ponies to let them get better because they needed them to make a living and they did not have the knowledge nor money to improve the harnesses." WSPA's involvement in Cambodia is building on the success of the Lampang pony project in Thailand which is run by the Help on the hoof in Cambodia CAMPAIGN Lampang Pony Welfare Organisation ( LPWO). In four years, LPWO has treated thousands of Thai ponies and educated hundreds of owners in horse and pony care. Hang Piseth and Nop Rinda trained with the project for six months earlier this year. " Our learning experience with LPWO was so important as we didn't have the opportunity to study equine medicine and welfare as part of our veterinary degrees. Because of this extra training and the opportunity to work with WSPA I know that we will be able to make a real difference to our country's working horses and ponies," says Nop Rinda. Your kindness and generosity has given the 30,000 hardworking ponies and horses of Cambodia a much brighter future… How your donations can help £ 8 can buy four new bits to replace cruel wire bits £ 45 can treat 30 ponies from harness- related wounds £ 200 can pay the salaries of two graduate vets for one month £ 1,000 can pay for 11 months worth of veterinary medicines to treat sick and injured ponies

WSPA NEWS | ISSUE 311 The generosity of our supporters allows us to campaign and deliver projects capable of creating a world where animal welfare matters and animal cruelty ends. We know you share in our vision, but did you know that, as well as donating to our appeals or setting up a monthly direct debit, there is a very special way you can give to WSPA? Leaving a gift in your Will ( a legacy) is a wonderful way of helping to ensure WSPA's work for animals across the globe carries on, beyond your lifetime. If you don't have a Will – or it is out of date – try to put some time aside to sort this out. A Will is your only way of making sure your family, friends and favourite charities – such as WSPA – are remembered with a gift. For more information please call the legacy officer on 0845 073 7500. GET INVOLVED Caring gift: Your legacy will make a difference to animals everywhere. Joining forces for WSPA ONE of FIVE £ 50 Natural Collection vouchers or an iPod SHUFFLE By buying something from Natural Collection or recycling your phone with Greener Solutions you will be entered into our Free Prize Draw! The draw takes place on 10 December 2008. Winners will be notified by post. Win! Think naturally Natural Collection – winner of The Observer Ethical Awards 2008 – brings the best of eco-retail straight to your home. Their catalogue features gorgeous, organic and fair trade fashion for the whole family, energy saving gadgets, home and body care products that won't damage the planet and much, much more. Natural Collection will give WSPA 10 percent of the purchase price from every product you buy. So start placing those Christmas orders now. Go green WSPA supporters recycling their mobile phones with Greener Solutions have raised over £ 10,000 so far this year but we want to achieve double that amount. It's so simple to help. Just fill in your details on the flap of the recycling FREEPOST envelope found in this issue of WSPA News, pop your old phone inside and post it off. You can order more envelopes for family, friends and colleagues by phoning: 020 8274 4040 ( quote WSPA) or e- mail: wspa@ greenersolutions. co. uk. We will receive £ 2.50 for each phone recycled. If you have applied for a place in the Flora London Marathon for 2009 and would like to run for Team WSPA please let us know. If you are unsuccessful with the ballot – don't worry you may still be able to run for WSPA and help us raise much needed funds. We have ten Flora fundraiser: This could be you! A world where animal welfare matters Run the Flora London Marathon Support WSPA! guaranteed places available for those who can raise a minimum of £ 1,500. Please get in contact with the fundraising department on 0800 316 9772 or e- mail: fundraising@ wspa. org. uk for further information. Raising money for WSPA projects around the world has just got easier! All you have to do is team up with our animal- friendly partners – Natural Collection and Greener Solutions.