VÉTÉRINAIRES SANS VÉTÉRINAIRES SANS FRONTIÈRES - FRONTIÈRES -

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TIERÄRZTE OHNE TIERÄRZTE OHNE GRENZEN e.V.GRENZEN e.V.

History

Milestones in VSF-G´s History

• Founded in 1990 as „Veterinarian Development Organization“ by vet students of the Veterinarian School of Hanover

• Since 1997 named „Tierärzte ohne Grenzen“

• 1998 first project in Sudan supported by USAID

History

• 1998 first paid permanent staff• 1998 opening of Regional Office Nairobi

• Today: - about 50 paid staff- Budget around 1,5 Mio €

Structure

Structure of VSF-Germany

• General Assembly• Board of Directors• 5 Regional Groups• Head Office in Hannover• Regional Office in Nairobi

Structure

• VSF-G is a member-based organization with about 130 members, mostly veterinarians or vet students

• The general assembly meets once a year and elects the Board of Directors, currently consisting of 4 directors

African Regional Office

• Director: Dr. Willi Dühnen, veterinary

• Representative: Dr. Günther Hartmann, veterinary

• Altogether fourteen co-worker

• Thirty co-worker in fieldprojects in five teams

African Regional Office

Regional Groups

• 5 Regional Groups are active

• They do small fundraising-activities, run shops or organize university courses, especially DEP (development education programm)

Gießen

Leipzig

Berlin

Rostock

Hannover (Head Office and Regional

Group)

Regional Groups

Headoffice

The Head Office is located in Hanover in the premises of the Vet School

• staff-members: - Chief Executive (full-time)- Financial Controller (part-time)- Assisstant/Secretary (part-time)

Incountry-Projects

• Lectures and Information Events

• Publications

• Exhibitions

• Booster-Day

• Education Project for Children

Education for Children

Project-days in Schools and Kindergarten

Objective: Create awareness about the importance of animals and to inform children about daily life in Africa

Education for Children

Booster-Day

• 1. Time: 25th May 2004

• Co-operation with 30 Vets in Hanover and surounding

• Participation of famous personalities

Objective:

Information + Fundraising

Booster-Day

• Main aim: Increase public awareness of our organisation

• Workshop “We´ve come this far.-Now what?“

• Reports about our work by four TV stations and several newspaper articles

• Production of a short film (12 minutes) about our work, chiefly in South Sudan

Publicity

Future

High Priority Activities

• Stabilization and Reorganization of Financial System

• Improvement of Management and Communications

• Professional Public Relations and Fundraising

Future

• Expansion of the work in the ostafrican area (Tansania, Northsudan)

• Focus more the development work next to emergency measure

• Searching for new partners

• Establish a foundation

Future

• Set up structures that allow to take up other project countries

• Make VSF-G well known in Germany amongst the respective target-groups

Projects

• South Sudan (Bahr-El-Ghazal, Jongolei, Shilluk Kingdom)

• Eastern Equatoria (Kauto Payam)

• Kenya (Massai Mara)

Projects – Where?

• Train locals in basic animal treatments

• Improve animal health

• Secure food supply

• Insure income for weak minorities

• Maintain peace

• Involve women

Projects - Aims

• Reservoir area of Rinderpest

• Mass vaccination campaign

• Training of animal health workers

Active disease surveillance

Projects – Boma

• Peace treaties between neighbouring tribes

• Peace meetings also dealt with child abduction and attacks among the tribes

Projects - Boma

• Located in the transit zone between North and South Sudan

• Pilot project to secure food supply and income for weak minorities, e.g. widows- Emphasis on small animals- Production of oil and honey

trade

Projects – Shilluk Kingdom

• Introduction of vaccine against East Coast Fever to the area- One of the most wide spread diseases- High mortality rate

• Evaluation of the efficiency of the vaccination

• Aim: reduce calf mortality between 30-50% to less than 2%

Projects – Massai Mara