Closing date: 2nd September 2019

Duration: Two weeks (to include the annual show)

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, lodgings 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 and advantage.

Closing date: 21 August 2019

Date: Early October, the organisers are flexible with dates

Duration is 4-5 days, including travel time

The BEVA Trust is looking for 2 skilled clinical veterinarians with excellent teaching skills and expertise in orthopaedics in to travel to Kiev, Ukraine to deliver lectures to vets and undergraduate students.  

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. 

THANKS FOR THE INTEREST - TWO VOLUNTEERS HAVE NOW BEEN CONFIRMED

Date: 20^th-30^th September 2019

Duration: 11 days (including travel)

The BEVA Trust is looking for one or two skilled Veterinarians/Vet nurses to travel to Lesotho, Africa to provide veterinary support during an annual equine veterinary clinic run by Semonkong Hospital project and University Pretoria.

World Horse Welfare and the National University of Lesotho (NUL) works together, with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), to enable the sustainable improvement of working equine welfare in five districts of Lesotho (Maseru, Mafeteng, Thaba Tseka, Mohales Hoek and Qacha’s Nek). The project encourages owners to address equine-related issues in the context in which they live and work, using a community approach and strengthening government extension systems and services. It is understood that equine welfare is part of a larger livelihoods system and that a more holistic approach is required. For this reason, the project collaborates with human development organisations, such as the Semonkong Hospital Project and Riders for Health to increase awareness of the contribution that improved equid health and welfare makes towards improved community health, welfare and livelihood security. The September clinic is run by the Semonkong Hospital Project and University of Pretoria to provide in the field care to livestock and other species owned by the rural communities of Semonkong. The World Horse Welfare project team has supported this clinic over the past two years to support in the care of the equids seen and would like to enhance this support by providing a trained veterinarian to assist in the more invasive procedures required. Semonkong forms part of the project area and so follow up care is provided during later visits to the communities. Support and training to the project team from a veterinarian in advising owners to provide rehabilitative care and in diagnosing illnesses would enhance the equine welfare care that the team can provide to project communities in the longer term.  

Volunteers will be expected to provide training to World Horse Welfare and National University of Lesotho (NUL) project staff on equine primary health care, including wound treatment and after care. Volunteers will also help to supervise University of Pretoria final year veterinary students and NUL faculty staff during the clinic in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses and injuries observed in the field (this may include minor surgical procedures, geldings, wound treatment and other equine health issues). Travel and accommodation all covered.