# Friends of the Asian Elephant
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-of-the-asian-elephant/565252
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [December 24, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-of-the-asian-elephant/565252 "2010-12-24T03:18:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-of-the-asian-elephant/565252/1 "2010-12-24T03:18:09Z")
Another charity I am peripherally involved with and can vouch for as completely legitimate is the [Friends of the Asian Elephant](http://www.elephant-soraida.com/index.php/en/), founded by Soraida Salwala, a well-known local elephant activist. Among its projects is the world’s first elephant hospital.
Much of the website is in English, plus there are English-language updates [here](http://animom.tripod.com/faepage4.html), including perhaps the hospital’s most famous patient, [Motala](http://animom.tripod.com/motala.html), who stepped on a landmine while working in logging across the border in Burma in 1999. She was successfully fitted with a prosthetic device.
There is a link on the website to donation information, and you can see that page is [here](http://www.elephant-soraida.com/index.php/en/How-to-Donate.html).
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-of-the-asian-elephant/565252/2 "2010-12-24T09:43:09Z")
I can’t view the page right now, but I’ll be happy to donate once it starts loading properly.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-of-the-asian-elephant/565252/3 "2010-12-25T03:36:33Z")
Is it loading yet? Works okay here.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-of-the-asian-elephant/565252/4 "2010-12-25T03:45:07Z")
Yes, it’s working now.