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Essex,3 mins

Essex charity worker’s escape from Kabul

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Pen Farthing from Dovercourt near Harwich helped rescue 67 citizens and 171 animals from Afghanistan during the Taliban takeover in August 2021. Pen is a former British Royal Marines commando, and the founder of the Nowzad animal charity. Evacuating the staff out of Kabul meant that the animals in the shelter would have no-one to care for them, which is why both staff and pets were rescued, he said... Picture credit: Anadolu/Getty Images.

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