Date: 9 - 16 February 2025 (flexible depending on flights)

Duration: 1 week

Location: The American Fondouk, Fez, Morocco

The BEVA Trust is looking is looking for 1 or 2 volunteers to travel to Fez in Morocco to provide support the work of the American Fondouk and provide CPD to their veterinary team.

The American Fondouk is a unique non-profit organization dedicated to providing people-to-people aid through offering free veterinary care for the hard-working donkeys, mules, and horses of Morocco. Treating working animals in the developing world is considered to offer a significant contribution towards safeguarding the livelihoods of the poorest and most vulnerable members of the community, both in the towns and in the countryside. Offering education in horse care and nutrition is also critical to improving the welfare of these animals and the welfare of the owners and their families who depend on them.

The American Fondouk requires one or two veterinarians with a keen interest in Ophthalmology to deliver CPD to veterinarians, students, and technicians. This will include discussing cases and running workshops. Prior experience of teaching is preferred but not essential.

Accommodation, meals and travel will be provided by BEVA Trust and host.

For further information, travel advice and entry requirements for Morocco see Morocco travel advice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

For further information and to apply to volunteer for the project please email your CV along with a covering note to leaya@beva.org.uk. Applications will close on 17 November.

Date: 4 – 18 February 2025 (flexible depending on flights)

Duration: Two weeks

Location: Makasutu, Gambia

BEVA Trust is looking for two veterinary volunteers (vets and EVN’s) to travel to Makasutu, Gambia to support the work of the Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust’s (GHDT). The volunteers will provide support for the GHDT team in any way possible. This involves helping the GHDT team with cases, suggesting treatment and offering explanation of procedures in the purpose-built veterinary centre. 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 also be assisting and advising on the mobile clinic. Volunteers may also be asked to deliver lectures/workshops to staff and students from the local university. Volunteers need to have good teaching skills with the ability to encourage and inspire through practical demonstrations. Just some of the main topic areas to cover include the importance of good, professional nursing and patient care, clinical examination and actively interpreting the findings and acting on them, dentistry, farriery and recognising lameness.

Volunteers need to have the ability 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 an advantage.

Accommodation, meals and travel will be provided by BEVA Trust and host.

For further information, travel advice and entry requirements for The Gambia can be found here.

Contact us for further information or to register your interest in this opportunity email leaya@beva.org.uk with your CV and cover note. Applications are open until 26 November 2024.