Warren and Jill Barton first visited Egypt in December 2013 to volunteer with a horse rescue. The plight of the horses and donkeys affected them very much, more so with the realisation that many of these horses were the descendants of their very own Australian ‘war horses' left behind after the First World War. They determined that they had to put their plans for a semi retired life in Australia on hold and return to Egypt to help in whatever way they could and so, ‘Egypt Equine Aid' was born.