Donkey is a hardy animal that provide a lifeline to
families, carrying anything from water, building materials and firewood to
maize, Sorghum.
Donkey is one of the animal that is most neglected by many despite
the role it plays in day to day life. Most Donkey owners do not give their
donkeys the proper attention and care as it is expected.
One of the ways this animal is neglected is by working for
long hours, starving and most of the owners do not give it medical attentions. It’s
due to this realization that the Kyuso District livestock development office
led by Mr. Chege Ndung’u organized a 1 day sensitization/training and free
deworming day to the donkey owners of Kyuso, Kitui county of Kenya.
The event was held
at Kyuso Stadium where over 1000 donkeys were dewormed. The farmers were
trained on how to take care of the animal. This included harnessing, dewoming, and
the ministry livestock under sustainable
land management project funded
by UNDP had invited the Donkey Sanctuary staff who took the front in farmers
training.
The event was
dumped “Punda ni pesa” a Swahili translation of donkey is money that was meant
as linking the donkey owners to financial services. The event was attended by
Banks staffs that encouraged the farmers to open bank accounts.
Speaking to the
farmer and donkey owners in kyuso the district commissioner Mr. Peter Maina
encouraged farmers to form group of donkey owners for business where he
promised them a tender whenever the government has construction projects in the
district.
It was clear that
donkey have helped the resident of Kyuso since most of them have educated their
children upto secondary level from fetching and selling water fellied by
donkeys from Rock catmints, earth dams, shallow wells and sand dam.
Kyuso would like to
urge the donkey owners to take care of this animal for its equal to other
domestic animals. Secondly, we would like to urge people who would like to
learn on how to take care of the animal to visit Kyuso Maarifa centre or visit http://kyusomaarifa.blogspot.com/
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