Help SPANA reach the remote areas of Tunisia where working animals need us by replacing our old mobile clinic.
Currently, the mobile clinic I drive is an old Land Rover. In fact it’s 11 years old and has done a staggering 521,000 miles. But sadly, it’s on its last legs. It’s treated around 60,000 working animals over its lifetime and, despite the many repairs, it’s only a matter of time now before it packs up altogether.
Six days a week, my team and I travel across difficult terrains in Northern Tunisia to remote souks and villages, treating working animals in desperate need of veterinary treatment. In Tunisia, we have three mobile clinics and they are essential in maintaning animal welfare in the regions the work
I wouldn’t be able to reach a fraction of the animals I treat now and thousands would suffer as a result some would even die. I would find it heartbreaking to be in a position where I couldn’t give the animals that need urgent veterinary care the treatment they required, simply because I don’t have the vehicle to reach them.
It costs £25,000 for a new Land Rover. Will you send a donation today to help SPANA buy a new mobile clinic for us in Bou Salem.
Your gift will help educate owners too. Part of my job is to talk to animal owners and educate them about animal welfare for example, encouraging them to give their donkeys, horses and mules sufficient breaks for water and plenty of time to rest. They happily listen to my advice and often, when I visit them again, are proud to show me how well their animal is doing. However, these owners are incredibly poor and cannot afford to buy medicines for their animals if they fall sick. They often live in remote communities where veterinary care is nonexistent and so rely on us making the journey to them.
Without their animals, they have no other way of making money. Without money, they cannot support their families. Its times like this when it makes me realise just how important SPANA’s mobile clinics really are providing a lifeline to many thousands of sick and injured animals.
Please send a gift, whatever you feel you can afford today, and help us buy a new mobile clinic that will save thousands of animals from future pain and suffering.
Sami Ghouli
SPANA Technician, Bou Salem, Tunisia
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