Award for feeding Africa's hungry a feather in vet's cap

By Daniel Flitton
Updated February 18 2017 - 1:23am, first published 12:15am
Robyn Alders, an Australian vet who pioneered the use of a vaccine to save chickens in poor countries from the deadly Newcastle disease, during a visit to Tanzania. Photo: Sally Ingleton
Robyn Alders, an Australian vet who pioneered the use of a vaccine to save chickens in poor countries from the deadly Newcastle disease, during a visit to Tanzania. Photo: Sally Ingleton
Dr Alders teaching the vaccination program in Madagascar. Photo: Graham Crawford
Dr Alders teaching the vaccination program in Madagascar. Photo: Graham Crawford

Robyn Alders always saw chooks, plenty of chooks, scratching the dirt of villages in southern Africa – scrawny feathered companions to groups of badly malnourished children playing nearby.

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