Hearts for Horses Horses Foundation. Shelter for the horses in danger. In the middle of winter, and Gemeente de Wolden, which presents itself as the most horse-friendly Municipality of the Netherlands, stick to their enforcement to remove our walk-in stables for the horses.  It is not our aproach to not light up also the positive actions they do, but why can they not include us to be a part of their positive actions. Why are they not willing for any coversation with us. Our only goal is to help horses in need in this beautiful De Wolden Drenthe Area.

February 1, 2020 the curtain falls. Everything must be removed, and the old horses must stand outside in the cold, without any shelter, according to the Municipality.

Despite all attempts to talk to Mayors and Aldermen, no response is being given to our plan to achieve positive transformations. Use of lawyers, environmental law experts, who would like to help and submit principle requests. Nothing helps. Enforcement remains because, according to the municipality, our Horse land falls under agricultural values. And therefore nothing is possible. This would be logical, were it not for the fact that our neighbor, with great success, succeeded in placing on his land with agricultural values, 9 wooden recreation houses to promote tourism. And even received Euro 250000 subsidy for it. What we sincerely wish him, this first. We see this as a positive transformation. We have also obtained many addresses of people with the same land, agricultural with values, in which a tolerant policy has been applied. This feels painful because it is clearly measured with 2 measures. Also the fact that our Foundation is the only one in the area that has worked as a Foundation to help people in need with their horses. Old horses have been able to experience their last day of rest with great care and dedication, may not help at the municipality. Everything has to go and in the middle of winter, in the cold. For me as the founder of the Foundation, this is very dear to me. I don't understand this cold setting. If this does not lead to a good result and no solutions are found, the Foundation has already lost a lot of money on the procedure. But worst of all our horses have no shelter, they are put on the street as it were. As if they are not entitled to a good life, as if they are objects that you put on the street for a while. The philosophy of our Foundation is to give the traumatized and old horses traumatized in the past a life in which they are not locked up. A life in which they have a lot of land, and walk-in stables to hide, and a nice hay bed to lie on.

Will it still be that we will be forced to leave our beautiful trusted Drenthe and maybe the Netherlands to find a new HOME for the horses. If you want to receive updates, about our developments, please send an email to info@heartsforhorses.nl or sign up at www.heartsforhorses.nl and register for the newsletter. If you want to support us, then you are also very welcome! Heart for the horses. Because an open heart and an open mind is needed for all animals that need our help.