Ethiopian Working Horses: First Impressions
- Posted by Stephanie L. Church, Editorial Director
Editor’s Note: I wrote this post at the conclusion of my trip to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last Friday.
Today is the first time I’ve had a chance to slow down enough to ponder what I’ve seen and heard this week during the First Annual Havemeyer Workshop on Infectious Diseases of Working Equids. Aside from days packed full of idea- and information-sharing, and evenings spent connecting with fellow delegates, the Internet has been spotty, making logistics for delivering words, images, and videos to my team in Lexington fairly challenging. (I nearly stood up and did a little dance in the middle of a meeting each time a video would upload before the power flickered off again!)
But now that I have some time (and a reliable Internet connection!), here are some first impressions that I’d like to share with you.
I only wept three times this week: once during a PowerPoint presentation, once on a bus, and É no, wait, twice on a bus
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re: Ethiopian Working Horses: First Impressions
This must be an eye-opening experience. It’s difficult to face suffering, but how else can sickness be studied and alleviated? I always read the stories about the care of equids in countries where they are still so important as work animals. &nbs
re: Ethiopian Working Horses: First Impressions
Stephanie – thanks you for this.
I hope the world understood the situations and decided to be with us to alleviate the sufferings of equids from such neglected infectious diseases.
Thanks a lot for the reality show from this indispensab
re: Ethiopian Working Horses: First Impressions
The Brooke and SPANA are awesome charities to support.
The Brooke was founded by Dorothea Brooke in Cairo in the 1930s. Her army captain husband was posted to Egypt and she went with him. She began to realise that several of the beaten down hors
re: Ethiopian Working Horses: First Impressions
Stephanie- Thank you so much for this. Please, please tell us all what we can do to help.
Thank you.
Catherine Bender