Brick kiln donkeys in Egypt

Chris Garrett, the Donkey Sanctuary's harness development officer, went to Egypt earlier this year to visit some of the 25 brick kilns where our mobile clinic team are allowed to work in the El Saf area of Egypt. The brick kilns are in two main areas in the country. The number of brick kilns is very difficult to assess accurately, but is thought to be in the region of 300. On a recent visit there were at least three more chimneys under construction in El Saf, so the industry is still expanding.

This short video clips shows a donkey pulling well over a tonne of bricks to the entrance of one of the kilns. It is then unhitched from the cart and reverses ready to be hitched to the empty cart alongside. The donkey then walks back pulling the empty cart where it is again unhitched and immediately put into another full cart to walk back to the kilns.

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• DonkeySanctuary
• Egypt
• harnessing
• brick
• kiln