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What a star!

Eleven-year-old Aviwe Tshoma from Khayelitsha, Cape Town, recorded the „child’s voice‟ in a Xhosa translation of the documentary “Let’s Ask the Animals”. Aviwe, who attends Nomsa Mapongwana Primary School, showed herself to be confident and competent in reading and speaking adult-level Xhosa as well as reading and speaking adult-level English!

Let’s Ask the Animals is a unique documentary compiled by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour in the UK together with Bristol and Cambridge Universities. Assisted by veterinary scientists, farm animals surprise learners by revealing their needs and choices through their actions and responses to life situations.

Suitable for learners in the Intermediate and Senior Phases, Let’s Ask the Animals gives insight into animal sentience and how our consumer choices can ensure that farm animals lead lives of contentment, free of frustration and fear.

Available in English and Xhosa, this 22-minute DVD is available from Compassion in World Farming (SA) for R50.00.
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Calling All South African Schools

Please join the international movement to have animal welfare placed on the agendas of all member governments of the United Nations, by signing the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare (UDAW) online at http://www.animalsmatter.org/

South African learners will be adding their voices to the largest animal welfare petition the world has ever seen. Please notify Animal Voice and we will arrange an interview with your school.

Costa Rican schoolchildren celebrated the signing of UDAW by their country’s president, Oscar Arias Sanchez on March 5 this year. President Sanchez recently became UDAW’s one-millionth signatory. South Africans have already contributed more than 100 000 signatures to this petition.