This project will up-skill veterinarians in dog and cat sterilization techniques and provide a model for high-quality spay/neuter services in areas with high stray populations, thus reducing spread of zoonotic disease from animals to humans. It will vaccinate 3,000 animals against rabies. It will sterilize up to 600 animals and donate supplies and equipment to veterinarians, thus ensuring sustainable veterinary services, and enabling ongoing spay/neuter and vaccination efforts in these areas.
We are seeing increased numbers of preventable zoonotic diseases, including rabies among dogs and cats in underserved areas near Nairobi. The animals are experiencing increased suffering and spreading disease to people, creating public health concerns. Rabies deaths in people, mostly children, are rising. This problem is completely preventable by controlling the dog and cat population through community high volume sterilization and rabies vaccination campaigns.
Vet Treks has a proven model for bringing sterilization services to communities in need. Our crews of volunteer vets train Kenyan vet students, and provide accredited continuing education up-skilling to practicing vets, in spay/neuter surgical techniques and in our high volume model. We provide rabies vaccinations to thousands of animals, thus immediately protecting the public from this deadly disease. We donate our supplies and surgical instruments so that vets can continue to do this work.
By teaching our model and providing the equipment needed for local vets to continue providing spay/neuter services to their communities, we help to expand local Kenyan veterinary capacity. Sustained efforts by local vets results in diminished animal suffering, decreased stray populations, decreased zoonoses of various types, including rabies, and ultimately improved community public health. Family economics are improved by avoiding the costs of zoonoses such as post-exposure rabies prophylaxis.
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