Ethiopian Working Horses: First Impressions

Stephanie, our editor-in-chief, shares her first impressions of working horses in Ethiopia from her trip to the First Annual Havenmeyer Workshop Infectious Diseases of Working Equids.
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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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Stephanie L. Church, Editorial Director, grew up riding and caring for her family’s horses in Central Virginia and received a B.A. in journalism and equestrian studies from Averett University. She joined The Horse in 1999 and has led the editorial team since 2010. A 4-H and Pony Club graduate, she enjoys dressage, eventing, and trail riding with her former graded-stakes-winning Thoroughbred gelding, It Happened Again (“Happy”). Stephanie and Happy are based in Lexington, Kentucky.

4 Responses

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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