SPANA: Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad

Present emergency projects
in Africa

Sudan

In Sudan, thousands of refugees are struggling to find enough food for their children, let alone their donkeys or horses. Our emergency supplies have saved the lives of many animals that are vital to a family's survival.
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We are also training villagers to become Community Animal Health Workers, so they can give basic health care to their animals and those of others. this way the communities gaing a long-term benefit and donkey welfare is improved.

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Kenya

In February 2006, SPANA funded a feeding programme for the thousands of animals affected by an ongoing drought in East Africa. 70% of livestock and 90% of donkeys had died of starvation in an area where people were utterly dependent on their animals for a living.