"You are doing such wonderful work – long may it continue for the benefit of both the animals and the people who rely on them so much."

"I think your work is invaluable and know from television how so many poor donkeys are not looked after properly and your work of education is so important."

"Keep up the good work!"

"You do a fabulous job I wish I could afford to give more."

"Thank you for all your hard work."

"I think you do an excellent job for these poor animals."

"Working animals like this are ignored and taken for granted the world over. It's really nice that someone takes notice, and the time, to help them to have less suffering in their lives."

"I think this is a wonderful charity to support. Helping the animals and the families as well is a great idea. I hope many more people will support this charity and help both."

"I think what Brooke is doing is fantastic. It acknowledges the reality of the situation for those living in poverty and hopes to work toward a future that is better for both people and animals. So, very important work."

"Animals and people must live in harmony. If we can't be kind to animals how can we be kind of each other? Thank you."

"Thank you for helping those poor donkeys and horses to lessen their load."

"I have been to Egypt a number of times and was distressed by the condition of the animals including those in the towns and cities used to transport tourists. Education is the only thing that in the long term will help all the poor creatures who live in these countries."

"I think your work is amazing - I hope one day I can devote my time and energy to working for a foundation such as yours. Thank you for the work you do and I hope it stands as an inspiration to others for years to come."

"I think your work is courageous and thoughtful through encompassing the needs of both animal and human."

"I think it's brilliant and invaluable work. It's great that you are looking after all those animals who work so hard for people who need them so much. Best wishes."

"I didn't know of your charity before today when I saw your appeal on the ITN News. I couldn't ignore it!! I hope you get many donations for this worthwhile cause."

"I've always known about the Brooke but my daughter saw the ad in the Metro and asked that her Christmas present would be a donation to you as we used to have donkeys."

"Your work is absolutely great for the world. We need more people like you!"

"I saw your centres while visiting Luxor, Egypt. I also saw that in general the horses and donkeys on the street were in fair condition, much better than I had hoped for, and I really think this is because of the Brooke's great work and high profile."

"I recently witnessed the work that you do in Petra so appreciate what an uphill struggle your work can sometimes be and wanted to acknowledge this."

"I have three much loved and healthy donkeys. Having read the Liz Jones' piece in the Daily Mail about the suffering of working donkeys this was the least I could do... keep up the good work."

"You are doing such a wonderful work which benefits not only animals but humans and their economy. God Bless."

"I think this is very important work - thank you."

"I think your services are very honourable and I praise you for your work to both animals and people alike."

"I think this is a wonderful and worthwhile cause and I wanted to support you. Well done on your brilliant work!"

"The Brooke ticks all the right boxes for me. I want to help the poor, and animals, live in better conditions and help them work together for a better life."

"My friend saw your work in Egypt and was very moved. This donation is my Christmas gift to her"

"Such excellent practical help and education really makes a difference."

"I think you do a fantastic job. I hope you can keep up this work and help both animals and people alike. I shall donate in the future. I am donating on behalf of my sister in law and her family this time, for Christmas."

"I have seen your shelters in Egypt and believe in kindness."

"We were moved to donate to Brooke while on a recent holiday to Egypt. You do a fantastic job and we are full of admiration for you."

"While holidaying in Cairo I was shocked at the suffering of these poor animals. It left a memory that has always haunted me.. I hope my small donation will help."

"Liz Jones' article moved me to tears; she wrote to sensitively and evocatively about your work. What you are doing is admirable."

"I think you do a terrific job and there would be far more animals suffering without you."

"I was so moved and appalled by the treatment of donkeys, mules etc in Ethiopia as reported in Daily Mail that I am taking this money out of my savings to help them. Please find a way to help these so wonderful animals."

"I think what you are doing is fantastic. No one would really think about caring for the donkeys but I went abroad last year and experienced how neglected these animals really are. I hope that my monthly contribution will help you carry your good work."

"I was so moved by your advert that I had to make a donation."

"I think you are marvellous and you must keep going to teach people how to look after their animals."

"I think the fact that you're teaching the owner to care for their donkeys as well as nursing the sick ones will make a huge difference."

"Fantastic work, well done."

"Whilst I support a few charities that help people, I was particularly touched by the plight of the poor donkeys, who suffer and yet cannot voice how they feel."

"Please carry on helping these extremely unfortunate people and their animals and lift them out of their brutal existence."

"I think what you are doing is fantastic, I was moved to tears upon reading this article but at the same time understood the desperation of the donkeys' owners. I hope they learn that looking after their animals will be rewarding for both of them. It is such a desperate plight and it's wonderful what you are doing to educate them."

"It was heartbreaking to read in the Daily Mail the plight of the donkeys, but very heartwarming to know that there are kind people like your organisation over there helping both the animals and people. Keep up the good work!"

"The donkeys look so unhappy. I really do hope that the donations help the donkeys become happy and healthy as well as the owners being educated on how to love their animals."

"Excellent work!"

"It is important to educate the people on how to look after their donkeys."

"I think what you're doing to help both the animals and their owners is inspirational and I only hope with your work and continued support you manage to ease the suffering of both."

"I think this is such a worthy cause, I'm happy to support you."

"Brilliant - such a worthwhile cause in both improving the lives of the donkeys and the people, as well as educating them at the same time."

"I am impressed by what I have read of your work on your website and I like to think that a poorly-treated animal will benefit from my donation."

"I am very pleased to donate to such a worthy cause, I think the work you are doing is absolutely brilliant and the fact that charities like yours exist gives me great faith in human nature."

"The article in the Daily Mail reduced me to tears. These poor animals should not be made to suffer in modern times. If everyone donated just a few pounds what a huge difference that would make. Keep up the good work."

"I feel so very sad that these poor animals and people are suffering when we live such fortunate lives! These animals work hard all their life to then be mistreated! Education is the key here and I live in hope that people will learn from charities like you!"

"I think your work needs a lot of money, a lot of patience and a lot of prayer-possibly not in that order."

"I think all the work you are doing is wonderful and will hopefully bring a greater understanding between these people and their hard working animals that suffer in silence."

"An excellent way to help animals by educating their owners so that they can help them to survive in a cruel world."

"It was a great article by Liz Jones, that prompted me to start supporting the Brooke."

"I saw the recent Daily Mail article that highlighted the appalling treatment of donkeys, mules and horses in Ethiopia. I'm glad to see organisations like the Brooke are trying to help Good luck with this invaluable work"

"After reading the article in the Daily Mail supplement, I found it very upsetting that these animals which are used to help in such a big way for the survival of these people, are given so little respect, care and attention. It's heartbreaking."

"I abhor pointless and needless suffering of any kind - be it to animals or to human beings. If humans must use animals then they must not cause suffering to those animals. Brooke seeks to educate people and to help animals and people alike. Thus, I must support the work that Brooke does."

"I think it is wonderful that such dedicated people do this work, in desperately poor societies."

"I wish to thank you for highlighting the terrible and needless pain and suffering the donkeys in Ethiopia have to endure. Your work is invaluable and I can only hope that more people are touched in the same way that I was when I read the article"

"I truly believe it is essential to help poor defenceless animals that can't help themselves, and it is most important to educate their owners that maybe don't know any better."

"You have a good approach - relief for the animal and education for the owner."

"I think the work you do is absolutely wonderful. And extremely important. Well done to everyone."

"I read your article in the Daily Mail magazine and that was enough for me to make a donation to you. You are doing a wonderful job. I hope you are in a position to be able to carry on the good work for many years to come."

"Amazing - keep up the fantastic work."

"I have never read an article that made me cry so much. Read about you in the Mail on Saturday magazine and simply had to do something to help."

"Your work is amazing. I read an article at the weekend, and sobbed all the way through. It has really affected me. Please keep doing for these animals what you are doing - it breaks my heart to see animals suffer, especially such amazing animals as these. Thank you."

"Worthy charity - not a fluffy one, but one that faces up to the facts of life - in poor countries animals have to work to live, but simple things can make their lives and conditions far more tolerable. Education is the key, as are providing shelter and water and correctly fitting equipment."

"I read your article in the Weekend Magazine about the terrible suffering these animals experience and wanted to contribute something to this extremely worthwhile cause."

"I read the article in the Daily Mail and I was sorry for the people and the animals and the situation they are all in."

"So sad the article in Weekend Magazine on Saturday - couldn't ignore. Keep up the good work."

"Keep up the education!"

"Important that you recognise that pointless to condemn those who cause suffering to animals if this is their only way of earning a living - far better to assist and educate."

"Sometimes I feel guilty that the plight of suffering animals moves me more than human, but I think it is the unnecessary suffering that upsets me. Helping the animals really does help the people."

"No need for animals to suffer in our supposedly civilised world."

"I think if you can stop animal suffering, you deserve as many donations as possible. If everyone who read your article donated £10 this would be a huge help. Well done, and keep going."

"Thank goodness for kind, hardworking and compassionate people such as yourselves. Your work is so fantastic and so, so needed. How can anyone look at or think of those darling little donkeys and not want to help them live a happy and pain free life. Also, helping people to understand why the donkeys are treated as they are is so very important."

"I realise that these people are starving and need their animals in order to survive. It's just a shame they can't treat them with the respect they deserve and try and help them to help themselves. These poor animals suffer terribly and it breaks my heart to know that so much suffering goes on every day - day in day out."

"Liz Jones' article in the Mail on Sunday was inspiring."

"The article in the Daily Mail magazine was very moving - these people need to understand how to look after these poor animals. Keep up the good work."

"I agree with everything you are trying to do for the less fortunate animals and people."

"Brilliant job, it is painful to see both animals and humans suffer in this way. Sorry I cannot give more. Helping both humans and animals at the same time is a wonderful idea."

"I have 6 donkeys in the UK as pets and it makes me realise what privileged lives they enjoy, I just wish these poor people appreciated and respected their animals!!! It breaks my heart to see such suffering and any care and education is a step to a better future."

"You are doing such a good job of working with people as well as animals. Everyone involved benefits."

"I was really moved by your recent article with the Sunday newspaper. Can you get the story on the TV - I'm sure more people would donate once seeing what the animals go through"

"Your article in the Mail supplement enlightened me to how these wonderful donkeys are treated, Thank you so much for your attitude and gratitude in helping them."

"What wonderful work you are doing."

"The work you are doing is wonderful and I only hope this small offering does go directly to helping to stop the suffering of these poor creatures."

"Keep up the good work."

"Look after animals and they will look after you."

"The article in the Mail by Liz Jones made me cry and I was quite unaware of the suffering of these animals. More articles of this nature would make people more aware and hopefully obtain more donations, carry on the fabulous work."

"What do I think of your work? In a nutshell, I think you're fantastic."

"These donkeys work hard for their owners and suffer extreme pain and suffering in doing so. Their loyalty to the owners is unquestionable and the work that the Brooke are doing for these faithful donkeys must not be ignored. The owners should be just as loyal to their donkeys as the donkeys are to their owners and should take advantage of the Brooke care that is on offer."

"It is vital to communities that animals and people reach their full potential. Animals that contribute so much should be looked after in order to continue making such huge contribution to the lives of poor people."

"I was appalled to read about the suffering of these animals in Ethiopia. I was however glad to see such a charity existed. I hope that my money will help to spread word and stop the suffering of these poor animals."

"The work you are doing sounds very worthwhile. I am a huge animal lover and was moved by Liz Jones' article in the Daily Mail to immediately sign up to donate monthly."

"On reading the article in today's Daily Mail Magazine 25/10/08, it was absolutely heart-rending and I just had to try and give something to your charity to help these unfortunate animals."

"Its a noble cause, having been to Egypt and India I have seen the poverty and suffering first hand, but I really feel sorry for the way the animals are treated."

"I didn't know a charity such as yours existed until I read the Daily Mail article. I have literally just finished reading it and came through to the computer to make a donation. It's a desperate situation because I know people are so poor that animals have to come second to themselves and their children but it's horrible to see, and I'm glad someone is doing something about it."

"Thank god there are people like you in the world."

"Please keep up the good work."

"Please continue your wonderful work for the animals."

"Sterling work, but a pity that it has to come to this. These are after all God's creatures and suffer pain and fear as much as the rest of us. Educate their owners!"

"I'm totally lost for words, or words would be inadequate to describe how I feel about your wonderful work. God bless you all."

"I was travelling in Egypt and saw a shelter you had put up for the donkeys. They looked so hot and tired I was so glad that you cared."

"Please keep up the good work and help those poor suffering donkeys - breaks my heart. Best wishes"

"I think you do a fantastic job and wish I could do more to help. I was moved to tears by the article in the Saturday mail magazine."

"Really important that you alleviate suffering of donkeys who are abused. The poor families should be educated in care of donkeys and be aware that by caring for them they will serve them better and give their donkeys extended lives."

"Great work, such a sad story in today's magazine with the Daily Mail. Sad for the people and sad for the animals."

"Please help them. It makes me cry to see them suffering like they do. Donkeys are such beautiful animals, so cute. Please don't let them be in pain."

"I realise that donkeys, mules and horses are not seen in the same way in third world countries but that's still no excuse for a lack of compassion. I think educating people about how to care for their animals, if only for survival reasons, is an excellent way of promoting future animal welfare. Thank you for being brave enough to tackle situations I do not have the courage to face."

"Great work, well done."

"I think it's really good that animals are being looked after but the main thing is that people are being taught how to care for them in the long term."

"Thank goodness there are people like you to help these poor animals."

"I read the article by Liz Jones in the Daily Mail. I hope that this small donation will ease the suffering of even just one of these poor donkeys. Please don't stop your kind work. If I win the lottery you are first on my list!!"

"Heart breaking to see those poor animals. Hope the situation improves. I couldn't bear to read the whole article in the Daily Mail magazine, but the pictures made enough of an impact. Well done on all the good work you do."

"I can hardly bear to look at these poor animals and want to rescue all of them! Thank you for doing all that you can. I hope we can help you do more."

"I think your work is wonderful and is so important for both the animals who are in such need and for the owners who are in such poverty."

"Thankfully there are organisations like yours who do tremendous work in helping both animals and people. I am a true animal lover and the plight of donkeys has distressed me for some time reading the article today deeply upset me but the plight of these poor animals needs highlighting. I want to help more. "

"Your work supporting and helping our fellow human beings and their animals is invaluable."

"Excellent work being done for animals that are so often forgotten about. So much suffering goes on in the world, human & animals. Reassuring that the Brooke seems to be more specific and direct in how it channels charity funds."

"As an animal lover I was appalled to read of the ill treatment of donkeys, mules and horses within countries such as Ethiopia. Thank god for charities such as Brooke who highlight their plight and take action to ease their suffering. I am so pleased I am able to make a small monthly donation which will help to make a difference to these most noble of animals. "

"We were deeply moved by the article in the Daily Mail and wish you well in all your work."

"The idea behind your organisation is unique, combining help to both donkeys and their owners. Very valuable work."

"Carry on all the good work you do - both for animals and their owners."

"I just discovered you and checked your web site and I find it very moving and upsetting but very positive, and it totally makes sense to help one to help the other so to help the whole community. For this reason I feel it is very important to help."

"Thank goodness that there are people like you."

"It sounds like a great idea and I'm happy to support it. Good work."

"I think your work is meaningful and very important"

"Fantastic- keep up the good work!"

"I had not heard of your charity until today and I think you are doing a wonderful job. It greatly saddens me to see the animals suffering in this way, and I hope that you can continue to teach people how to look after their loyal and hardworking horses and donkeys so that their lives are as happy as they could be under the circumstances."

"Compassion knows no difference between living beings. This seems an excellent cause. Thank you."

"Extremely valuable, many animals are made to orleft to suffer in this world. I would like to think people are prepared to prevent this with education & support"

"Its a great cause...somebody has to do something to help these poor animals, I myself have holidayed in Tunisia when I was younger and have seen the suffering for myself. Keep up the good work!"

"I think this organisation is brilliant!! I have recently been to Tunisia on holiday and saw a lot of working donkeys and horses and it broke my heart. I saw a number of sad cases and that's one of the reasons I had to do something to help by donating."

"I cannot thank Brooke enough for helping animals around the world. If donkeys prayed, you must be the answer to their prayers. Thank you.."

"I think you're doing a great job - that's why I want to donate."

"I've always supported human charities before, but I love animals too. I've travelled a lot in countries like India, Morocco and Peru, where you see a lot of poverty and donkeys and horses working incredibly hard alongside their owners. It's really tough for them both. The Brooke's work makes so much sense and is kind to both the people and the animals. What a brilliant charity."

"You do amazing work - long may you continue"

"Long may you continue helping these hardworking animals to have a more comfortable life."

"I think the Brooke are an example to us all - by helping humans help themselves, and through education and support in helping the lives of working animals - I hope you reach your 5 million animals target."

"Keep up the good work."

"I think it's absolutely fantastic. I love the way this charity cares for the animals and families - this is why I wanted to donate, because they provide support for both parties"

"Keep up the great work you do"

"The plight of animals, particularly working animals, in poor countries always distresses me, and I hope that my small donation will help."

"You are doing a brilliant job as always. I lived in Mohandissin, Egypt, for 2 years and know how amazing the donkeys are and how they need the care you provide. Thank you."

"Thank you so much for your work. I am so glad I found you. I have travelled around the world and am still haunted by the suffering of the working animals, such as donkeys and horses. God bless you."

"I think you are wonderful."

"I think your work is amazing. I'm always torn between supporting animals or people."

"Education is at the heart of the wellbeing and welfare of all living creatures on this planet. Brooke has done a sterling job for a very long time."

"I love your work...It's great you are directly addressing the 'people vs animals' debate that has been in the news in the past year, rather than avoiding."

"I am very impressed with what I have read and this is why I have decided to donate"

"Your work is so important. The Brooke, founded by compassion, has now evolved to become an organisation of great importance to people and animals alike."

"The interdependence of people and animals is an unbreakable bond requiring mutual trust and respect. Your wonderful work improves the quality of life for both partners in this essential relationship."

"EXCELLENT! It's a marvellous thing that you do."

"Keep up the great work! I admire your approach: it's both sensible and compassionate."

"Incredible work and dedication."

"My wife and I were on holiday in Egypt and visited one of your hospitals to see the great work which is being done to help the animals and to educate their owners..."

"It's a wonderful project. Wishing you all the best."

"It's brilliant that you help people and animals who have no voice of their own."

"It makes so much sense to go in with an educational hands-on approach. At least this way the abusive cycle is being broken in a healthy and helpful way"

"I've only just discovered you, I've had a good look at your site and seems to me that you do some excellent work."

"I am really pleased to be helping the Brooke ...I've seen your work in Jordan and I feel it is essential to help the working animals... and their people."

"I thank God that you work on behalf of those who have no way of helping themselves and suffer on a daily basis, simply in order to survive."

"You're brilliant!"

"Your work is wonderful, a huge benefit to man and animals."

"I love the idea of helping animals AND people at the same time!"

"I have always supported development charities, but love the intelligent approach that the Brooke takes to help animals and people. Well done the Brooke!"

"Thank you for your dedicated care which benefits the owners, and most of all, the animals who cannot speak for themselves."

"That's the brilliant thing about the Brooke - because you're helping the animals to help the people, so everyone wins."