Wellesley College Grad Setting Up Haitian Sustainable Goat Program
Plan to build and teach program on sustainable goat management wins Student Inspiration Award from UPenn, sets Wellesley College on course for Haiti.
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine recently gave a $25,000 award to Wellesley College Alum Nikki Wright and a classmate of hers, Lisa Gretebeck to launch a program in Haiti aimed at improving their goat farming practices. “For the most part in this country we tend to think of veterinarians as doctors for our pets, and often times we think of our pets as family members,” Wright shared in an email to Wellesley College. “For the people of this part of Haiti, animals are far more than pets, they are a critical asset for the family. They may be the only chance that a family has to raise enough money to send their children to school and to put food on the table, even merely once a day.” With the assistance of, and a plot…
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