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What A Veterinary Rabies Vaccination Program Looks Like In Africa
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What A Veterinary Rabies Vaccination Program Looks Like In Africa

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As a photographer and vet student i always wanted to combine the 2. During a rabies vaccination program in the tribes of north Kenya, i tried to document as much as i could. The focus was to vaccinate as many dogs and cats. This is the result.

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    View from our hotel room in Nairobi

    On our way to the first vaccination location

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    Since it the way was too long, we had to camp in the savana

    Early morning view from my tent

    This is how we had coffee

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    Kids on their way to fetch water

    The end of a long day

    The samburu people don t waste anything when they slaughter an animal. Not even the blood. Our local guide said it was “Yummy”

    I love to photograph at night, these donkeys kept us awake all night. They were in heat so there was a lot of running around

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    Our warehouse guarded by a Samburu warrior

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    This is what our hotel looked like

    Samburu warriors guarding their livestock

    And we go again

    Samburu child coming home after a long they with the livestock in the savanna

    Livestock

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    Moran (Samburu warrior) showing me his pride

    Samburu woman and her livestock

    Just as we were about to leave, our driver gets a present from one of his aunts in the village. So he packs his present in a Tusker beer box which he ties carefully

    In our next location we camped in our guides backyard and his wife cooked for us

    We went to photograph the sunset

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    My feet, chilling in the sunset light

    In the evening our girls transformed the canned food we purchased from Nairobi in delicious feasts

    Our next location was very diffrent. Lake Turkana is a very dry place

    However, this is how our camp site looked like at Lake Turkana

    The Turkana rely mostly on fishing

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    People here seem more tough. Portrait of a Turkana girl

    Portrait of a Turkana child

    One of our vaccination sites. The crowd was very curious

    This image is from another vaccination location. The geography was very diffrent. Here there were plenty of trees and fruits!

    We tried to teach children in local schools about the diseases they should watch for

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    There were a lot of monkeys here, so i tried some camera traps. Basicly i left my camera on a tripod and covered it with bananas

    Birds as well

    Camp fire after a long day on Mount Nyiru

    We did a bit of a safari as well

    Elephants are cool

    Lazy leopard

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    This is how a safari sunset looks like

    And off we go, back to Europe

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