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Helping the Horse Nation

In a few days I will leave my home and drive my vet truck 900 miles to Standing Rock, North Dakota. Some of the horses involved in the Standing Rock pipeline protest have been injured. A few have even died. They need veterinary help and have none.

Yes, the people are protesting an oil pipeline going under the Missouri River, with its potential to contaminate the water for 17 million people (pipeline leaks are the norm, extraordinarily common, and vastly under reported). But there is a much bigger picture here. They are protesting/protecting rights. The rights of all races. The rights of the earth. And, most importantly, the rights of humans (and animals) who are yet to be born. These things...all of them...cut me to the core.

This protest has become a movement that is international and historical in scope. Never in the history of this country have so many tribes gathered together. Marches and gatherings of support have sprung up in all corners of the globe: Mongolia. Ireland. Belgium. Norway. New Zealand. Australia. Packistan. Even Salt Lake City, Utah.

The horses on site are very important for morale and for healing of the humans. Helping the horses is the very best thing I can do to throw myself into this wave of change.

Please help me buy medications and equipment broken down below if you can. I'm not very good at asking for money unless I have worked for it. But the scope of this is too big for me to handle alone.


~ Charmian Wright, DVM
I carry the spirit of so many with me.

 

Breakdown of funds I am trying to raise:

•Medications and equipment to get started: $7,500
Includes antibiotics, colic treatment medications, electrolytes, bandaging materials, wound care supplies, intravenous fluids and catheters, and individual equine first aid kits for owners and human first responders to have on hand

•Ongoing medication needs: $2,000
Additional medications and equipment to replace supplies as they are used up

•Hoof care: $500
Hoof care supplies and funds to use for emergency outside farrier care

•Fuel: $550
For transportation of fully equipped veterinary truck

•Semi-permanent shelter: $3,000
A "sheep camp" for housing medications, supplies, and equine tack 

•Fees: $1,000+
Fees associated with a GoFundMe account and credit card processing

•Additional donations:
Will be used for a fund to support emergency care if any horses needs to be treated at an outside veterinary hospital

Organizer

A. Wright
Organizer
Herriman, UT

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