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The Nerja Donkey Sanctuary
Nerja Donkey Sanctuary is the founder member of the Malaga Association of Donkey Sanctuaries. Registered Spanish Association number 7502.
La Asociación de Málaga de los Santuarios del Burro. Asociación sin ánimo de lucro. Número de Registro 7502. CIF número G92826304
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Latest news from the Nerja Donkey Sanctuary:
13 horses rescued - Keep up to date with our newsletters available now at www.donkeynewsletter.com
27/05/08 Nursery school visits the donkeys - watch video
Filmed by a local Nerja television crew this great video shows kids from los Pequeñecos school meeting our rescued animals. At the moment it´s been viewed 455 times, hope you enjoy the video and I hope the video proves popular so the journalists notice! Update: we´re now 6th in infonerja´s most viewed videos list. Only 30 more views away from 5th place, thanks for watching the video and emailing the link to your friends it really helps us out.
Of course you can see all our other videos on our youtube channel
You can read more about the school visit to the donkey sanctuary in June´s Soltalk article
12/05/08 Article in Sur newspaper (Spanish only at the moment)
Sur article on donkey sanctuary
24/04/08 WWOOF with us
We have had our first few WWOOFers over from a University course in Finland and our next visiting volunteers are all the way from Alice Springs, Australia. If you would like to help our donkeys by WWOOFing with us you can find out more at WWOOF ESPAÑA
14/04/08 Pablo our eco donkey (click image for more details)
10/04/08 More computer trouble
Just when we thought we were on top of things our computer has packed in completely. If anyone's got an old laptop lying around feel free to post it to us!!!!! We'd send a donkey courier but Pablo is busy with his eco-donkey work.
We are having to use internet cafes but we are of course still checking our emails regularly and adopting a donkey online is up and running as usual. We still aim to dispatch the adoption certificates within 24 hours and hopefully we'll be back online soon.
02/04/08 Newsletter
The latest newsletter is out and available on www.donkeynewsletter.com as a Word file or as a smaller PDF.
28/03/08 New Tshirt design
Our new tshirt design for 2008 features Connan our rare giant Andalucian donkey.
There's a new wallpaper of Connan on our wallpaper page and of course you can adopt Connan on our adopt a donkey page.
24/03/08 Apologies for lack of updates, normal service will shortly be resumed!
We have been rushed off our feet in the last few weeks with an incredible amount of rescue call outs. High winds, rain and storms caused damage in the sanctuary and we lost a large number of hay bales in the wet weather.
Thankfully the bad weather has now passed and Nerja is again bathed in warm sunshine which our donkeys and visitors out on holiday are appreciating. Mocarra and Petra are particularly pleased as they both like to sunbathe and they now have a nice new pen where they can sunbathe in peace and quiet away from those pesky baby donkeys.
01/03/08 Pablo our Eco Donkey
Pablo has been getting out and about on our environmentally friendly eco-donkey collection scheme. It's excellent exercise for our Pablo and our volunteers as they make regular collection trips down to one of Nerja's beautiful beaches.
Our ecodonkey collects leftover food and bread from the restaurants on the beach and returns them to the sanctuary where our rescued donkeys are eagerly awaiting the delivery. Anything our donkeys won't eat is recycled by our pot-bellied pigs. The final stage of this eco friendly scheme is completed when local farmers collect the manure and use it as fertiliser for their crops.
You can read more about our ecodonkeys in our Soltalk article.
29/02/08 New T-shirt design revealed here soon
23/02/08 Where is Pablo off to?
Story here and in www.soltalk.com magazine near you soon
19/02/08 New Donkey Desktop Wallpapers added
New wallpapers including Rambo taking a bath and Flash sticking his tongue out. Apologies for lack of updates. If anyone happens to work for Telefónica we need a phone line and internet!
05/02/08 New Donkey Rescued
He has been named El Capitan after the road on which he was walking around loose. Capitan was found early in the morning wandering on the road in Torre del Mar and our rescue team were soon alerted. On arrival at the donkey sanctuary he was placed immediately in isolation as with all new donkeys.
He is in his late twenties and has been poorly looked after. He was seen within an hour by our big animal vet and he is infested with skin mites so he will need to be washed for a minimum of 10 days. Here he is being checked over by one of the vets we use. In the photo Nico is checking to see if Capitan can chew properly as he has very few teeth.
01/02/08 Woody and Petra
We rely totally upon public support and any donation, no matter the size is always welcome.
If you can make it a regular monthly donation it really makes a difference to us.
You can donate in different ways, in Sterling or Euros as shown below or using the links on the left you can adopt a donkey and donate securely online via PayPal.
You can also send a cheque or postal order to the following new postal address:
Please note new address
Apartado de Correos 414, Nerja, 29780, Malaga, Spain.
Telephone (+34) 664 558 135
Or you can donate directly by bank transfer
with the following details. Please note the change in bank
details for the new Association. Details of the Association and more details here
Please make cheques payable to Nerja Donkey Sanctuary or La Asociación de Málaga de los
Santuarios del Burro.
If you wish to adopt a donkey by cheque
please remember to include the name of the donkey you wish to
adopt, the name you would like written on the adoption
certificate and the address to post the adoption certificate to.
Thanks
Association account details:-
Banco Popular Nerja No: 0075-1458-25 060-00108-86
IBAN ES3700751458250600010886 BIC POPUESMM
Nerja Donkey Sanctuary is located in the Province of Malaga (Spanish Provincia de Málaga) on the southern coast of Spain on the Costa del Sol. We were recently featured on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and we care for donkeys (el burro), baby donkeys (el burrito), mules (el mulo), horses (caballos), dogs (perros), cats (gatos), chickens (pollos), goats (la cabra) and more! So if you're looking for things to do on your holiday in Spain then look no further!
You can also adopt a donkey in the sanctuary
Here's what children have to say about us and we have a Kids club in the sanctuary on Saturdays.
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Updated 02/07/08 Thanks for your support