A programme aimed at educating donkey owners on proper animal care has started bearing fruit. Such scenes are becoming rare as donkey owners have adopted new ways of treating their animals following civic education. “Bhang and alcohol abuse is quite common among donkey riders and there are so many other bad vices associated with them and these are the things the programme has addressed,” said Cyrus Gitonga, the Kirinyaga Donkey Owners Association chairperson. Started three years ago, the programme was sponsored by Brooke East Africa and Kenya Network for the Dissemination of Agricultural Technologies. Vincent Oloo from Brooke East Africa said the programme has registered positive results citing reduced donkey theft cases that were rampant before.

Source: Standard Digital December 13, 2020 21:06 UTC