By Katherine J Gau | Director
We originally conducted our first spay day as a once off event. Because of the positive response at community level, we have continued to do one a year.
Due to this consistency, it is now common for people to ask Vusumnotfo staff questions about caring for their dogs and cats, and to inquire about when and where the next spay day will take place. For this reason, we have now set the spay day as an annual event on the second Saturday of June.
The spay day is related to Vusumnotfo’s activity 1.1. Parenting - train in early childhood development and learning, including factors that influence this.
As part of our education sessions prior to the spay day, and in our parenting training, we raise awareness of how every day animal care practices contribute to the social norms that young children absorb. Currently in rural Swaziland these every day practices tend to be negative, setting up a negative cycle of unhealthy animals, and thus fear and animosity towards dogs and cats.
Our annual spay day, by providing much needed veterinary services, results in healthy dogs and cats, which is key for family members to develop healthy companionships with their dogs and cats. This in turn contributes to children absorbing positive social norms. We are now gearing up for our 5th annual spay day.
With your continued help, we will conduct this on June 8, 2019.
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