The Brooke is an international animal welfare charity that works to improve the lives of horses, donkeys, and mules and the poor marginalized community that owns them. Founded by Dorothy Brooke, in 1934, in Cairo, to provide free veterinary care to war horses abandoned after World War-I, it then expanded its operations to 11 countries, across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Today Brooke reaches out to more than two million working horses, donkeys, mules, and the marginalized communities that own them.

Brooke Hospital for Animals (India) or Brooke India (BI), is an affiliate of The Brooke. It is a Section 8, Not for Profit Limited by Guarantee Company, and is registered with the Animal Welfare Board of India. BI has been working since 2000, to improve the lives of vulnerable working equids and communities in some of the country’s most challenging areas. We now operate directly through 32 Equine Welfare Projects (EWPs) across 10 States in India, thereby reaching out to approximately 2.21 lakh working equids and the equine-owning community that owns/rears them.

Our Vision is of a world in which working horses, donkeys, and mules are free from sufferingand have a life worth living.

Our Mission is to achieve immediate and lasting change in the lives of working horses, donkeys,and mules and the communities that depend on them.

Our Goals: “We are proud to be Brooke. We are resourceful, share new ideas and help eachother succeed. Together we make change happen”. Over the next few years, we want to reachand improve the lives of more animals and their communities than ever before – and we’refocused on three goals that we believe can get us there.

• We work through multidisciplinary teams in thematic areas like animal Health & Welfare, Community development through Behaviour Change, Livelihoods & Resilience, , Advocacy, and Infomation & Communication Technologies.
• We work on the sustainable model of strengthening equine healthcare infrastructure and capabilities of equine owners and Local Service Providers (LSP).
• We aim to strengthen the economic and social conditions of the marginalized equine-owning communities
• The concept is to build up Community-Based Organisations that can sustain the work after BI’s exit from an operational area. These comprise Self Help Groups called Equine Welfare Groups/Associations/ Federations and the capacity building of LSP, and linking them to Govt resources in the Animal Husbandry and Rural Development departments amongst others.  
• BI has a Planning and Performance team that formulates the projects for implementation through Project Cycle Management and a MEAL-led performance team which monitors progress and gathers evidence of the programmatic impact.
• The Funds and Communication and External affairs teams support Information Communication Technology led dissemination of work and working with the Govt in positive policy initiatives and change.

Brooke only works with knowledge partners i.e. Veterinary Universities, Research and Traininginstitutes, and collaborates with related CSO on a need basis. Presently we do not opt forcorporate partnerships.

Relationships with our knowledge partners are based on the principles of common purpose, mutual respect, commitment, clear delegation of responsibility, transparency, accountability, and flexibility.

Brooke India (BI)helping working animals and the communities that rely on them for over 20 years. India is home to over 500,000 working horses, donkeys, and mules. Brooke India is impacting 2.2 lakh working equines in India with 1.8 Lakh equine owners. We work with the equine owing community and have successfully established 3,220 Equine Welfare Groups. These groups have developed alternative sources of livelihood and generated funds to further support their equids.

We are proud that 2,073 of these groups are for women.

Direct Reach: Through this BI reaches 1.98 Lakh equines and 84,035 equine owners on 6,709 sites

This includes the Intensive Equine Population (Village + BK) and 20% of the targeted 68 Equine Fair Population.

Indirect reach: Through this BI reaches 4.35 Lakh equines and 2.15 lakh equine owners across India. This includes the Total Semi-Intensive Equine Population (Village + BK) + 80% of the targeted 68 Equine fair Population + Tourism & pilgrim Equine Population + Extensive Population.

Brooke India (BI) also shares knowledge partnerships with around 23 reputed Universities. This year Itself BI has formed partnerships with several top veterinary

universities and institutions. These partnerships are expected to facilitate the upskilling of thousands of veterinary students and professional field vets, providing equine owners with better access to professional veterinary care for their animals.

Some of the nationally acclaimed universities include Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology, Ayodhya, Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Kamdhenu University , G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, the Rajasthan

University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, and the Institute of Rural Management Anand and many more.

BI aims to establish further partnerships with veterinary universities in all states of its operations. We believe that by growing and strengthening our professional networks, we will be able to make lasting improvements in the lives of working equines and their communities.