Date: February 2020 - dates flexible 

Duration: Two weeks

Closing date: 9th December 2019

BEVA Trust is looking for two volunteers with good teaching skills to travel The Gambian Horse and Donkey Trust’s (GHDT) purpose-built veterinary centre in The Gambia. The volunteers will provide support for the GHDT team in any way possible. This involves helping the GHDT team treat patients in the clinic and teach and discuss every aspect of veterinary medicine.

Many of the problems seen in working animals could be prevented if their owners had the correct knowledge and knew what to in an emergency. Several training programmes have been carried out to train local professionals in equine related trades enabling them to develop their own small businesses and to help relieve the suffering of animals throughout The Gambia. Every week the mobile veterinary clinic team travel to different villages to provide treatments to animals in need. Whilst the focus is on working horses, donkeys and mules, the team would never turn away any animal in need of veterinary care. Working animals are an integral part of life in rural Gambia, so their owners are keen to gain preventative health care treatments whenever possible. The volunteers would be also be assisting and advising on the mobile clinic.

All board, loggings and transport are provided. Volunteers will need to be able to work comfortably without access to many diagnostic aids and must be prepared to try to understand the local culture and customs.  An interest in tropical medicine and an open mind would be an advantage.

To apply please email your CV along with a supporting letter to leaya@beva.org.uk. 

THANKS FOR THE INTEREST - Three VOLUNTEERS HAVE NOW BEEN CONFIRMED

Date: Early October, the organisers are flexible with dates

Duration is 4-5 days, including travel time

The BEVA Trust is looking for 2 enthusiastic clinicians with excellent teaching skills to travel to Kiev, Ukraine to teach to vets and undergraduate students interested in equine medicine. 

Areas to cover include orthopaedics including diagnostic imaging, neurological diseases and infectious diseases, in particular EHV. All travel and accommodation expenses are covered.

The goal of the seminar is to advance knowledge of equine medicine for vets and senior veterinary students from the Ukraine and neighbouring countries. The annual seminar, now in its 20^th year is organised by Association of Specialists of Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine (ASVMU) and aims to provide up to date veterinary care and assurance of welfare of horses in the Ukraine.

The seminar is held over three days from 9am – 6pm. Up to 5 lectures held daily of approximately 1 ½ hours each (including translation). Volunteers should be comfortable with lecture presentation and addressing a small audience and experience of teaching with translation would be an advantage. 

To apply please email your CV along with a supporting letter to leaya@beva.org.uk.