Six months ago I visited our Ethiopia project and my memories were re-lived last week when I was able to give a talk to colleagues about my experiences.
Our project has an extensive reach to working donkeys and their owners with bases at Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Debre Zeit, Hawassa and Mekele.
I am delighted to announce the filly foal recently born at Brookfield Farm has been named Elisabeth, in memory of our charity’s founder Dr Elisabeth Svendsen MBE.
I am delighted to announce the filly foal recently born at Brookfield Farm has been named Elisabeth, in memory of our charity’s founder Dr Elisabeth Svendsen MBE.
Just before International Donkey Week (8th to 15th May) I was involved in a fantastic project launch of the ‘Passport to Lyme Bay’ – an initiative positively bringing together Pecorama, Seaton Tramway and The Donkey Sanctuary.
This shocking image of a donkey with a broken leg really emphasizes the desperate situation that exists for working donkeys all over the world.
This donkey was brought to our mobile clinic visiting Bejeko village by his owner Warkinner to get some follow up treatment for a hyena bite that was healing. But I couldn’t focus on his wound so much as his poor leg.
At the end of my trip to Ethiopia in November last year, I wrote a blog about a donkey that was desperately ill and had to be put to sleep, and now I’ve edited a little clip of the video I took on my phone.
My granny, Elisabeth Svendsen, began our work in Africa in 1986. Since then many hundreds of thousands of working donkeys have been reached by our mobile clinics and community workers. In November, twenty-five years later, I visited three of our key projects in Ethiopia.
