Stables, gates and barn dividers are amongst 22 tonnes of supplies being sent to northern Italy by our Sanctuary to equip its new rescue centre.
Today, a consignment will be leaving our Italian counterpart, Il Rifugio Degli Asinelli, which is needed at our rescue centre to cope with a recent influx of donkeys rescued from Romania and Switzerland.
The equipment and shipping, being sent in two consignments, will cost the Sanctuary £35,000 and includes:
- Six mobile shelters (for new arrivals and pregnant mares)
- Two large donkey feeders
- Gates
- Barn dividers
- 800 posts and 1,200 rails for fencing
Andrew Judge, farm manager at Brookfield Farm, has co-ordinated the project and believes great savings have been made. He says: "Whilst we would prefer to buy locally, these materials are very expensive in Italy; wooden fencing there costs twice the price. We have been able to save £16,000 by fabricating the equipment in Devon and shipping it across!”
The consignment will help donkeys like Sheila and Filippo. Sheila was amongst the 21 abandoned donkeys rescued in Romania. Many had been poisoned by local farmers for eating the crops and she, pregnant at the time, had been attacked with a knife and needed life-saving treatment. Sheila has since had her foal Filippo in the safety of the rescue centre and both can enjoy a secure future.
Hi Jenifer,
I'm a long-time supporter of TDS's protege, Lucy Fensom, and her donkeys at Safe Haven in Israel, and a long-time admirer of TDS. I'm a volunteer writer and editor for the Best Friends Network, where I've recently written a story about your work in the Turks and Caicos.
As Editor of the Greece and Cyprus Community on the Best Friends Network, I'm also very interested in donkeys in the Mediterranean, especially Greece and Cyprus. And of course I've been thrilled by the establishment of your new sanctuary in Italy. I absolutely love your blogs!
Would you clarify what's meant in paragraph # 2 above? It doesn't quite make sense to me as written: "a consignment will be leaving our Italian counterpart, Il Rifugio Degli Asinelli, which is needed at our rescue centre to cope with a recent influx of donkeys rescued from Romania and Switzerland."
Thanks for checking!
Pamela Benbow
North Carolina, USA
Editor, Greece and Cyprus Community
Best Friends Network
http://network.bestfriends.org/greece/news
Hi Pamela,
Thanks for your comments. Glad you like the blogs :-)
Will get paragraph #2 clarified and post back shortly.
Dear Pamela
Just to clarify that the consignment was shipped from our Sanctuary here in Devon to Italy so that they could prepare the farm for more donkeys! There is a 'for' missing in the paragraph. Thank you for spotting this!