The new mobile clinic is open in Mauritania thanks to you.
Last year SPANA asked it supporters to open a much-needed mobile clinic in Mauritania. We treated over 63,000 horses and donkeys there last year and now we can treat thousands more.
The problem in Mauritania is that old animals are smuggled over the river from Senegal and sold on. These animals have reached 'retirement age' but are sold to poor families and put to work. The people have no other options. These animals are not fit enough to reach our centre in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott 170 miles north, but now they don't have to - we can go to them.
Three times a week our mobile clinic travels to the border town of Rosso and treats as many sick horses and donkeys as possible. We can only do this thanks to our supporters. We recently saw Amir, a donkey with a swelling the size of a football on his back where a wound had become infected.
His owner had fired the wound with a red hot iron believing, through traditional practises, it would help. Instead it actually caused a terrible abscess and an incredible amount of pain. Amir, however, had to work on every day. Our vets cleaned the wound and cleared the abscess, you could almost see Amir sigh with relief afterwards.
This animal welfare work is essential to keep the animals fit and free from pain and for the people who depend on them for their livelihoods, so thank you for helping make this possible.
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