5th April 2020 - Amazing
place, I would love to help one day
Deb
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28th December 2019 - Amazing charity. Thanks
for all you do.
Emily
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7th December 2019 - A charity that has been
going for a long time, helped many animals and their owners. It's great to see pictures of
all the success stories and where the donated money goes too. Well done everyone
Carol
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6th December 2019 - Today we visited you and
we saw what grateful work you and your member volunteers do. My husband and I were in
tears and hugged you and called you an angel for doing these great things for the animals.
We have you shut in our hearts and we are going to help you and your animals.
with love.
Margon and Jan from Holland
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6th December 2019 - Great work you are doing.
Exuberance
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4th November 2019 - The work, the care, the
education and more to help animals.
Rachel
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18th October 2019 - Fantastic
organisation/hospital. I visit recently and got a tour from paravet Paul. He explained and
showed me around. The most thing what I feel there is the peaceful atmosphere and love for
all the animals.
Patricia
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3rd October 2019 - The job these people do is
simply amazing ...can't wait to get back over there.
Kerry
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15th August 2019 - This is a very hard working
charity. A friend of mine who lives in the Gambia regularly sees their vans around helping
the animals.
Helen
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28th June 2019 - I am lucky enough to have
seen the amazing work these people do and I hope I can support their hard work, they are
angels.
Sue
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22nd June 2019 - Fantastic organisation,
founded by a true Gambian Toubab. They help sensitise the owners of working donkeys and
horses, giving them the insight needed for a happy partnership. Giving out project donkeys
to farmers, who without their help, would not afford a donkey of their own, these donks
are monitored, to make sure that all is well. They care for not only horses and donkeys,
but all animals in need. Dogs, cats, hyenas, crocodiles and camels being some..Goats and
sheep also seem to find their way to Sambel or Makasutu. Their staff and vets often going
the extra mile or 30 to pick up injured animals, in the middle of the night. Without them
Gambia would be a far poorer place.
Susan
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3rd June 2019 - Please support this Charity,
it is obviously a Good thing to do if you Love Donkeys and Ponies?
Thank You
Dizzie
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4th May 2019 - I had the great pleasure of
meeting the equine patients and the wonderful team who look after them today. It was
humbling to talk to volunteers, total devotion to their cause. Please visit the centre if
you can ... you won't regret it!
Hilary
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25th March 2019 - I can't heap enough praise
on the GHDT for all the work they're doing, not just with sick and injured animals, but
working with communities, liasing with the local university and the outreach work that's
all happening because of them. We were privileged enough to be shown around by the
wonderful Muhamed (apologies if the spelling is wrong!) and it's clear that his passion
and dedication are shared by everyone there.
What an exemplary project this is. Thank you
for all you do. X
Soo
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15th March 2019 - If you are interested in
animal welfare and how it is developing in the Gambia, this centre at Makasutu is a must!
It is a centre of excellence, for the care and dedication given to the animals they deal
with on a daily basis, and also the never ending number of new cases / rescue missions
they get called to. They also have fantastic facilities for teaching the animal care
students and run apprentice programmes, training the next set of animal care givers. Their
work is starting to reach far and wide across Gambia, with tireless efforts made by Numu
and the team going into schools to teach the next generation that animals are sentient
beings and deserving of our love and respect. The team amaze me with what they achieve,
with a few memorable cases in the recent past, eg the poisoned beach dogs, they managed to
pull back from, literally, the brink of death. When I first visited, five years ago, the
centre at Makasutu was still being built, but as I stood in the building site, I knew it
would be a place I would return to again and again, as indeed I have. The experiences I
have had there are invaluable and irreplaceable. My wholehearted love and respect goes to
the team and of course the wide ( and getting wider!) variety of animals they help. I
encourage anyone to visit, and also to support financially this wonderful charity. So,
would I recommend this place? With all my heart xxx
Keira
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3rd March 2019 - Thoroughly enjoyed our visit
and particularly impressed with the concentration on education in the community.
Jenny
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8th February 2019 - Their incredible work in
The Gambia to educate for better treatment of animals and livestock.
Sue
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28th December 2018 - Visited them on holiday.
Had a tour around and what I experienced was so many people trying to do a wonderful job
through re education and helping such destitute animals. Well done keep up the good work.
Susan
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4th December 2018 - Wonderful charity. They
helped us with a found sick puppy and helped so many horses and donkeys.
If you are going to The Gambia please consider taking them much needed cotton wool.
Riley
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9th November 2018 - Wonderful place to visit
and walk away feeling inspired that we can help!
Sally
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18th October 2018 - They don't just rescue,
they teach and respect Gambia.
Fiona
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17th April, 2018 - Hi Heather, Wow! What a
week!!
Can I just express my massive thank you for
the opportunity to volunteer at your amazing trust!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed myself and it really was
an extremely educational and humbling experience.
The staff there were wonderful, so willing to
learn, the animals were amazing and the place just beautiful.
I really did take an awful lot away from the
experience and look forward to coming back some time soon!!.
Thank you again.
Danni
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11th April, 2018 - They do such amazing work
I'm truly amazed
They try and educate people too
They go the extra mile to see no animal suffer
Cant wait to visit when we are allowed.
Chaz
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25th March 2018 - You were recommended as a
charity that educates humans and looks after donkeys. So monthly direct debit set up today
to support the work you do. Thank you
Amanda
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3rd February, 2018 - Amazing charity, the
determination to educate and support locals on how to love & look after their horses
and donkeys. Truly inspirational xxx
Libby M.
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24th January, 2018 - I was so pleased to go
and see all the animals when I was in The Gambia last week, amazing work from everyone and
all looked so happy, hope the first aid stuff will be useful x
Tina V.
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15th January, 2018 - Amazing work being done,
was a privilege to visit, would love to spend some time helping, already planning next
visit.
Paul B.
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4th January, 2018 - Visited today ... what a
wonderful place, such care and compassion shown to these beautiful animals xx
teaching locals the right way to care for their animals.
Doreen
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28th November, 2017 - Brilliant charity that
does fantastic educational work.
Rachel C.
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October 24th, 2017 - A fantastic charity who
really do make a difference - keep up the good work xx
Athena T.
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November 16th, 2016 - Dear Heather,
I am writing to express my sincere thanks for
the most amazing 2 weeks I have ever spent outside of Ireland! I had an unbelievable time
and will forever have fond memories of your wonderful charity.
What struck me the most was the compassion and
care shown to every single patient regardless of the state it was presented in or the
temperament, we all know how tricky a difficult donkey can be when he isn't happy! The
people working for you are exceptionally patient and it is quite clear how much of a love
they have for their patients. It is sad to say but at home I have many times witnessed
vets or helpers lacking this sense of vocation!
Elaine is a wonderful asset to the charity and
took exceptionally good care of me, making me feel extremely welcome from day one.
Langbaba was most grateful when I departed and insisted on escorting me to the airport
which was a lovely send off.
I was delighted to purchase one of Mustafa's
wonderful tapestries which hangs in my living room as we speak.
Please extend my thanks to your team for such
a fantastic experience, which involved me learning where water melons actually come from -
much to the amusement of the boys, I didn't realise they grew in fields!!!
I am so looking forward to seeing Makasutu
when it is ready!!!!
Best wishes,
Jenny
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November 6th, 2016 - I just wanted to say a huge thank you
for letting me stay at GHDT, my project went well and I absolutely loved my time there...I
didn't want to leave!!
I think the charity is incredible, I was absolutely blown
away at the work that you and everyone who works there does. I felt honoured to even be a
small part of it!
The boys at Sambel were amazing, not only did they make me
feel at home and treat me like family but they taught me so much! Some of them you can
really tell feel it in their heart!
Elaine also was a star, you've picked an incredible woman
to volunteer with you!
Francesca B.
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