The Brooke - Donkey care clubs

Reaching children is one of the ways we can positively influence the future of animal care. This important approach helps to destroy harmful myths.

Our project in Kenya has been running 'donkey care clubs' with several schools. At the programmes, pupils learn about donkey welfare through songs, poems, dances and drama, which they perform in front of the local community.

In the picture below, pupils at the Mukou Primary School Donkey Care Club are dancing in Mwea, Kenya. The dance being performed by these children is about ending donkey abuse and encouraging good welfare practices.

'Punda ni rafiki' on their T-shirts means 'a donkey is a friend'.

'A donkey is a friend' dance © Frederic Coubert

Here is a poem written at a donkey care club

The Donkey Prayer


	Oh God! Am I cursed?
	The burden my mother used to carry is what I carry. Big, big burden of fodder to feed the cows. Oh God! Am I cursed? The whips my mother used to get is what I get, Whips, whips on my back. I am full of sores. Oh God! Am I cursed? The place where my mother used to sleep, there I sleep, No shelter, no shade, in rain or in sunshine, My skin is my shelter. Oh God! Am I cursed? You did not curse me, yet you gave me to man to serve him. Who will rescue me? Oh God! Am I cursed? There’s some light in the tunnel; I can see KENDAT and Brooke; I can see donkey care club, Act quickly and save me from the cruelty of man.