Honour for helping working animals and their owners
A woman’s long devotion to improving the lot of working donkeys together with the families that rely on them has been recognised alongside an honorary doctorate from the Royal Veterinary College inwards London.
The honour went to Heather Armstrong, managing director of the Republic of The Gambia Horse together with Donkey Trust.
The Honorary Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine together with Surgery was awarded inwards recognition of her outstanding service in the areas of fauna together with humanitarian welfare inwards Gambia.
Having spent much of her early on life living inwards West Africa, Armstrong developed a rigid involvement inwards the developing basis and, inwards particular, the human relationship betwixt the welfare of working animals together with the prosperity of the communities inside which they worked.
A well for you lot working equine tin give notice growth a families income yesteryear 500 per cent, together with thus through improving equine welfare it is possible to ameliorate the lives of their owners.
Armstrong began nursing together with rehabilitating animals from a immature historic menses together with has nursed inwards many unlike countries, alternating betwixt little animals together with equines.
Heather’s sister, the belatedly Stella Brewer Marsden, was a primatologist who lived inwards Gambia, where she had established the starting fourth dimension ever chimpanzee rehabilitation project.
Brewer Marsden became aware of a growing employment of misfortunate equine welfare inwards The Gambia, together with called for her sister’s assistance to address the problem.
In 2002, recognising the plight of the animals together with the needs of the community, the sisters established the Republic of The Gambia Horse together with Donkey Trust.
Armstrong’s aim has ever been to supply Gambian farmers alongside the skills required to effectively create out their ain equines. This has involved preparation para-veterinarians, farriers, harness-makers, cart-makers, together with didactics both the fauna owners together with schoolhouse children.
Her passion is for both people together with animals, equally she believes the plight of people together with their animals are closely interrelated together with that many of the fauna welfare issues seen are related to poverty of their owners.
For this reason, Armstrong approached the problems holistically, helping both the people together with their animals through initiating selective, precisely complementary, community evolution projects.
Much has been achieved alongside relatively pocket-sized expenditure. In doing this, she has involved a broad network of individuals together with institutions.
The Republic of The Gambia Horse together with Donkey Trust continues its operate through many various projects, from mobile veterinary clinics to the designing together with edifice of donkey-drawn ‘school buses’ for plant nursery schoolhouse children who are likewise immature to walk to school.
Heather’s sister, Stella, has been a huge influence inwards Heather’s work. The sisters shared a groovy affection for Gambia, alongside Armstrong promising her sis that she would conk on her legacy, which she continues tirelessly to exercise to this day.
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