James Florence

Managing Director

About WVSBased in Cranborne, Dorset,

but……

We work all over the world

Our aim

To assist animal welfare charities and sanctuaries around the world with a sustainable veterinary resource:

What WVS provides

• Free veterinary drugs, supplies and equipment

• Vet and non-vet volunteers, both long and short-term

• Disaster Emergency Response Teams

• Veterinary training

WVS Stats

• Over 500 associated charities

• In 2012 we: Sent 63 veterinary teams

Treated over 15,593 animals

Sent 600 veterinary aid parcels

Helped 214 charities

• Supported by pharmaceutical companies and vet practices

• Tick & flea treatment is normally top of the list

Veterinary Supplies

• Wish list - the more you tell us, the more we can help

WVS Volunteers

WVS Volunteers• Planned one-off trip

• Ongoing placements

• Vets / vet nurses / non vets

• Type of trip:

Neutering campaigns

Mobile clinics

Combined trip

Education

WVS Volunteers

• What they will pay for:

Flights

Travel Insurance

Vaccinations

• WVS helps the volunteers with travel arrangements

• WVS forwards on the applications to you. You decide if they are successful

WVS Volunteers• What you need to consider:

Permissions

Facilities

Supplies

Accommodation

Transportation

Equipment (Trapping)

Example trips:

Example trips: SamosNeutering at a dog shelter + other cases

Last trip (1 week) 1 vet, 1 vet nurse, 1 vet student Neutered 50 dogs/cats

Example trips: MalawiSpay / Neuter Campaigns Community Farm Clinics Wildlife Health Checks

1,598 birds vaccinated against Newcastle’s disease

1,072 dogs vaccinated against Rabies

Disaster Emergency Response:

Disaster / Emergency Response

• Haiti earthquake

• Hungary toxic spill

• Egypt - civil unrest

• Thailand - floods

Disaster / Emergency Response - Floods

Disaster / Emergency Response

• Kenya - IDP camps

First WVS emergency response team

Mission - To vaccinate, to worm and treat as many animals as possible

“Animal welfare to help human welfare”

International Training Centre

International Training Centre

• Training facility in southern India

• Training vets and charity workers

• On-site clinic, kennels, classrooms, library and accommodation

• Regular ABC (TNR) courses

International Training Centre

• Regular ABC courses

– Veterinary neutering techniques

– Dog catching

– Setting up a neutering campaign

– Effective anti rabies campaigns

International Training Centre

• Specialist courses

– Farm animal diagnostics

– Small animal anaesthesia

– Small animal infectious diseases

– Wildlife and exotic animals

International Training Centre

• Launched in Sept 2010

– 20 ABC courses per year

– Training over 200 vets/assistants

– Neutering 3,000 dogs per year

– Vaccinating over 5,000 dogs against rabies per year

ITC Partners

A child dies of rabies in India every single hour

• Launching with 50,000 rabies vaccinations in just 1 month

• Working with local organisations in 10 rabies hotspots

• Recording rabies vaccination data

• Providing training and equipment

• Trialling ‘Door to door’ campaigns

– Include education on rabies

– 400 in 3 days – resident ITC Vet

– Minimal costs for charities, as no need for dog catching teams

• Around 50% of all rabies bites in India are from domestic dogs

What next ?

• Visit www.wvs.org.uk

• Fill in a charity registration form

• Give as much detail as possible

• We will give you a free membership login• We will set up a charity page

Keep in contact !!

Want to know more about WVS?

www.wvs.org.uk The official WVS website

www.wvsitc.org The official ITC website

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@wvscharity

@jamesflorence

Thank you

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