Young students lend a hand at Okanagan animal sanctuary – Okanagan [Video]

As the saying goes, many hands make light work.

It’s an old adage that the students from Aberdeen Hall Preparatory School in Kelowna, B.C., are putting to the test, working as a team to help feed the herd at Happy Hooves Sanctuary.

Last year, three Grade 5 classes visited the farm to learn what the sanctuary needed to continue caring for its group of misfit animals who have either been mistreated or abandoned. Now, the students are here to complete their project.

“We are making goat planters made of cedar, which is safe for goats to chew on, and we are planting herbal plants in them,” said Chaire Deng, one of the students participating.

Deng says that the plants will help keep the goats healthy.

“We are planning to plant medicinal plants for the goats to eat because goats, when they feel sick or something, they just know what they need to eat,” said Deng.

The year-long project is designed to challenge the students.

“We split the students …