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Idalia, a 16-year-old high school student in Manhattan, has been thinking of becoming a veterinarian since she was a little girl. But she had never had the opportunity to interact and learn about horses – until a recent class trip arranged by AWESOME. “I’ve never been this close before,” Idalia Read more…

The teenagers, from the George Washington Carver High School for the Sciences, visited Central Park and the Clinton Park Stable on the West Side where veteran equestrians talked about the evolution and domestication of horses, their physical and mental attributes, their daily diet, the medical care they receive, New York Read more…

You could almost see the smile on Shahriar’s face – even though the 12-year-old was wearing a mask.  It was a beautiful day in June. Shahriar, a middle school student from the Bronx, was in Central Park. And he was just treated to a historic horse-carriage ride in what is Read more…