About Us
Who we are
Vets Beyond Borders is an Australian-based, not-for-profit, incorporated organisation established by veterinary volunteers in 2003. Vets Beyond Borders co-ordinates and runs veterinary based animal welfare and public health programs in developing communities of the Asia and Pacific region.
What we do
- Work with local governments and organisations to establish effective veterinary based programmes
- Undertake the clinical training of local veterinary personnel to build their skills
- Co-ordinate volunteer veterinarians and veterinary nurses to work on these programmes
- Supply much needed medications and surgical equipment
- Facilitate the funding of buildings and important infrastructure such as kennels to hospitalise treated animals
- Contribute to the development of wider programmes to address animal welfare and community health issues
VBB achievements
- Surgically sterilized over 20,000 street dogs preventing the birth of thousands more street dogs each year
- Vaccinated over 30,000 dogs and cats against rabies
- Trained over 250 local veterinary staff to increase their surgical skills and animal welfare knowledge
- Provided care for thousands of animals whom have never seen a vet before and performed pain relieving and life saving procedures including fracture repair and cancer treatment
- Contributed to developing kennels and infrastructure to hospitalise injured animals
- Worked
with governments in developing countries to implement humane alternatives to
euthanasing or impounding stray dogs.
Where we work
Currently most of VBB's work is in India where VBB's founder Catherine Schuetze is based, with two longstanding projects in Ladakh & Sikkim. A veterinary training programme in collaboration with ACTAsia is in its second year in 2010 in Shenzhen & Beijing, China, after running very successfully in 2009.
VBB is always looking to expand its work into other developing countries aswell as developing affiliations with other orgainsations working to improve animal welfare & public health.
Please visit Our Projects page for further information on VBB's current projects.
