Humanitarian Project Supports Animal Welfare In West Bank

AL MALEH, WEST BANK - SEPTEMBER 15: A mentally handicapped Palestinian Bedouin man sits on the bare earthen floor of his family's tent Sepetmber 15, 2008 in the Al Maleh region of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. CARE International's office in the West Bank has hired a Palestinian vet, Dr. Ehab Jaradat, to treat the flocks of the area's poorest Bedouin families - a project which is funded by the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO). He conducts his morning rounds in a harsh landscape where 160 Bedouin households eke out a living in the barren hills and deserts of the Jordan Valley, struggling to provide their herds with water and fodder and squeezed out of their traditional nomadic pastures by the Israeli army who use the region as a live-fire training ground and who limit movement with scores of barriers and checkpoints. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)