Donkey and people

Donkey and people
Here we are in Tunisia! Dr Jaber Belkhiria and Dr Tricia Andrade were awarded a University of California at Davis Blum Center Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Solutions graduate student grant. We will be here for a month to assess the role of Tunisian donkeys in development.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Aknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to those who supported us to get to Tunisia. Acknowledgements often come at the end of the project, but we want to say thank you now!

We are especially thankful to University of California at Davis, Blum Center for Developing Economies (http://blum.ucdavis.edu/) for awarding us the grant to address the connection between animal and human welfare in Tunisia. Now that we are here, we see this connection more clearly and how much there is to be done.

The Donkey Sanctuary  (http://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/)  generously offered advice on how to approach communities of donkey owners and provided educational materials.

Eric Davis, DVM from the University of California at Davis, International Animal Welfare Training Institute (http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/iawti/index.cfm) provided consultations and tools, both of which are being put to good use.

We would like to recognize Dr. Kurt Kornbluth of the University of California at Davis, Program for International Energy Technologies (http://piet.ucdavis.edu/) for his continuous support. We are collaborating with him to develop the new D-Lab One Health courses (http://piet.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=908). We hope to return to the US to brainstorm ideas for improvements to donkey related veterinary tools and cart equipment utilizing local materials and resources.

Last, but not least, we would like to send a big SHUKRAN to G David Miller, our UC Davis International Agricultural Development adviser, for encouraging us to turn our homework assignment into a real world project!



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