SPANA in Mauritania

• One veterinary centre • One mobile clinic • 74,000 animals treated annually • Teacher travels with mobile clinic

Mauritania

Mauritania is one of the poorest countries in West Africa and its landscape is mostly desert. This is hard on working animals, which have to carry heavy loads for hours in the intense heat and choking dust.

SPANA’s centre in Mauritania opened in 2001 and the huge demand for our services ever since shows just how much it was desperately needed.

Farriery in Mauritania

It’s amazing the way some people ignore their animals – I suppose it happens here in the UK as well.

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