Source: Plan UK Website: http://www.plan-uk.org Donkeys delivering supplies during the 2005 food crisis in Niger Roger Allen. AID workers are preparing to deliver life-saving food supplies by donkey cart as expected heavy rain threatens to wash away roads in crisis-hit Niger. Staff at children’s charity Plan International are considering the contingency as months of drought [...]
From THE STANDARD, Nairobi, Kenya It is nowhere near a ride in a matatu or a taxi, but it is the only way to get around on Lamu Island, which has only one vehicle. Ziwa Abdallah, my guide, laughed as he told me as soon as I alighted from a boat from Mokowe Jetty, “Let [...]
Jean and Bob Harrison with some of the donkeys they help in Delhi, India. Photo: NATACHA BUTLER A retired Essex couple are facing the Indian equivalent of an anti-social behaviour order after neighbours in a smart gated colony in Delhi were upset by their decision to turn their home into a donkey sanctuary. [...]
by Camille Pease Watkins – COLUMBIA REPORTS. Donkeys don’t make the best get-away vehicles, as robbers discovered in the coastal Colombian city of Barranquilla. The thoughtless thieves abandoned their four-legged accomplice, who took a hit for the team and is now doing time… Pacing up and down his plot all day, “Joche” the [...]