The New Centre

Our New Purpose Built Veterinary Hospital and Visitor Centre

Now ACE has a Veterinary Hospital which gives free veterinary care and treatment for all working equines.  ACE also runs an educational programme where 300 children a week come from local schools to learn that animals feel pain and should be treated with respect as they serve their human masters.  ACE is doing all that we can to ensure better animal welfare standards in the future for all animals.  But we need your help …

We rapidly outgrew the original premises, due to a constant need for more in-patient stables, plus better Veterinary facilities to enable the vets to carry out more complex and more frequent surgeries on the injuries that we were seeing on a daily basis.  We also needed to be able to provide safer and better visitor facilities to help more people learn about our work and visit us to see how their financial support is being put to good use.

We fund-raised hard and managed to purchase our own land in July 2006, and then the fundraising for the building work started.  This was given a huge boost due to a very generous legacy, left to us by Mr David Herbert Milnes, which stipulated that the money was to be used by us to build a purpose built animal hospital with as many facilities as we could afford with the legacy on our newly purchased land.

Our new hospital has 2 sand pits for the animals to have the rare opportunity of a roll after having their tack removed, the sand helps with pest control in their coats.  We also have a number of separated washing stalls for the safe washing of numerous animals at a time, and an out-patients clinic for minor injuries, worming and maintenance advice.  All animals visiting the out-patient clinic are seen by a qualified vet.  Our in-patients facilities include 25 stables, and a large treatment area.  We perform large animal surgeries on a mattress outdoors in a large open space and where the grass underfoot provides the safest surface for recovery from general anaesthesia.

Inside the building we have a reception where goods can be bought very reasonably for donations, a visitors balcony so that tour groups and visitors to our centre can watch our work safely, plus a small animal consulting room and operation theatre.  We have the only small animal veterinary facilities in upper Egypt that offers a free service to the local poor people.  Upstairs we have accommodation for visiting volunteering vets.