Post by sepeonline on Mar 10, 2008 21:42:43 GMT 1
SEPE introduction and overview
SEPE is short for Sociedad Española Para la Protección de los Equinos, which means the Spanish society for the protection of equines. SEPE started operating 1996 and acquired its national licence from the ministry of the interior in Madrid 3 years later. The group started up SEPE after the ILPH decided to close all its European offices and then they donated 1,000 pounds towards the legal costs of setting up the new charity. SEPE’s constitution was originally taken from the ILPH’s objectives but runs on a committee system rather than a trustee system.
SEPE rescues many equines each year and has also been able to re-home a good percentage of the horses, mules and donkeys it has taken in. The Malaga sanctuary is always kept busy and gets no other support other than donations and sponsorship from the public. Sadly the Spanish public has still to see animal welfare as any type of priority although this is gradually changing. SEPE committee is mainly Spanish and the majority of the volunteer’s workforce are also Spanish but when it comes to donating only 10% comes from its Spanish supporters, so like so many other animal charities in Spain SEPE has had to become very reliant on foreign supporters. Fortunately since we started Spain has become either the home or second home to many British and northern Europeans, who have helped us to survive.
SEPE has been active in many campaigns around Spain and has been involved with other international charities monitoring equine transportation of equines going for slaughter. Some of our past campaigns have included carriage horse welfare situations Villanueva festival, Mijas donkeys and carousel ponies etc. One of SEPE’s problems has been trying to make the dealers more responsible whilst they have equines in there care, as we have been involved with many disastrous welfare situations.
One of SEPE's main priorities is running equine welfare programmes and making accessible educational information available.
Much cruelty in Spain is caused by the lack of equine knowledge and having no awareness of the cost of keeping an equine responsibly. Subsequently the animal suffers without there always being cruel intent, just born from total ignorance to the horses welfare.
Due to a property boom many more working class people have been able to afford horses but mostly they have had no training and many have no idea of the running costs for keeping a horse.
SEPE could not exist without the generous support of the public and we could never hope to improve the conditions very much like to hear from any like minded people who would like to help us with our work.
Centro Equestre Lauro Golf,
La Alqueria,
Alhaurin de la Torre,
Malaga, 29130,Spain,
www.sepeonline.net
info@sepeonline.net
SEPE is short for Sociedad Española Para la Protección de los Equinos, which means the Spanish society for the protection of equines. SEPE started operating 1996 and acquired its national licence from the ministry of the interior in Madrid 3 years later. The group started up SEPE after the ILPH decided to close all its European offices and then they donated 1,000 pounds towards the legal costs of setting up the new charity. SEPE’s constitution was originally taken from the ILPH’s objectives but runs on a committee system rather than a trustee system.
SEPE rescues many equines each year and has also been able to re-home a good percentage of the horses, mules and donkeys it has taken in. The Malaga sanctuary is always kept busy and gets no other support other than donations and sponsorship from the public. Sadly the Spanish public has still to see animal welfare as any type of priority although this is gradually changing. SEPE committee is mainly Spanish and the majority of the volunteer’s workforce are also Spanish but when it comes to donating only 10% comes from its Spanish supporters, so like so many other animal charities in Spain SEPE has had to become very reliant on foreign supporters. Fortunately since we started Spain has become either the home or second home to many British and northern Europeans, who have helped us to survive.
SEPE has been active in many campaigns around Spain and has been involved with other international charities monitoring equine transportation of equines going for slaughter. Some of our past campaigns have included carriage horse welfare situations Villanueva festival, Mijas donkeys and carousel ponies etc. One of SEPE’s problems has been trying to make the dealers more responsible whilst they have equines in there care, as we have been involved with many disastrous welfare situations.
One of SEPE's main priorities is running equine welfare programmes and making accessible educational information available.
Much cruelty in Spain is caused by the lack of equine knowledge and having no awareness of the cost of keeping an equine responsibly. Subsequently the animal suffers without there always being cruel intent, just born from total ignorance to the horses welfare.
Due to a property boom many more working class people have been able to afford horses but mostly they have had no training and many have no idea of the running costs for keeping a horse.
SEPE could not exist without the generous support of the public and we could never hope to improve the conditions very much like to hear from any like minded people who would like to help us with our work.
Centro Equestre Lauro Golf,
La Alqueria,
Alhaurin de la Torre,
Malaga, 29130,Spain,
www.sepeonline.net
info@sepeonline.net