Friends of Asian Elephant (FAE) Hospital is the World’s First Asian Elephant Hospital and was founded in 1993 by Soraida Salwala. It is a 200-acre facility that includes facilities to nurse baby elephants and operate on them. They provide free care for elephants and provide places for their mahouts to live in.

To date, Soraida and her team treated approximately 4,000 Asian Elephants from illnesses, wounds, accidents and land mines (Eyes of Thailand, n.d.).