re: Loughan House in the news. from Robbie Dempsey
Monday, October 10th, 2016: Jim Gavin swaps one high for another today as – just nine days after his third All-Ireland title win as Dublin manager - he takes to the skies as a ‘groomsman’ for 5,300 food-and-income-producing animals being airlifted to change the lives of almost 800 African families.
The Dublin manager will this evening be one of two ‘groomsmen’ on board the flight from Shannon as Irish international aid agency Bóthar carries out the biggest ever multi-species airlift of its kind in the world to Rwanda.The cargo will include 37 in-calf heifers, three bulls for the Rwandan Government National Bovine Breeding Scheme, 260 pigs, 100 goats, and 5,000 chicks. Also on board will be 5,000 doses of Bovine Semen for the Rwandan Breeding Programme run by Bóthar’s sister agency Heifer International. Almost half of the in-calf heifers will have been hand-reared by inmates at Shelton Abbey Prison and Loughan House Open Centre as part of their restorative justice programme.
See more at: www.bothar.ie
