Support our Nicaraguan Interns: Contribute to World Vets Internship Fundraiser
Since 2011, World Vets has provided free surgical training to Latin American veterinarians and upper level veterinary students at our Latin America Veterinary Training Center (LATC) located in Granada, Nicaragua. Short courses are offered year round and we also just launched extended learning opportunities for more in depth training. This summer World Vets was excited to welcome three Latin American interns to the LATC team. World Vets is currently training these interns in a structured, in-depth and supportive learning environment. Through this 6 month internship, each participant will receive high quality instruction in surgical techniques, anesthesia, patient safety and comfort as well as pain management. We strive to create a positive and low-stress learning environment that will advance the interns veterinary career and their ability to better care for their patients. These services are provided free of charge to both the animals and interns. We need your help to make these programs possible! We invite you to sponsor the training of these future veterinary leaders. You can help our interns reach their goals and apply their gained knowledge towards helping the underprivileged animals of Latin America!
Take a moment to learn more about each intern and please consider making a contribution.
Meet the Interns
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Julie
Julie is a veterinarian from Jinotega. Ever since she was a young girl she had an interest in animals and wanted to help them. Her previous veterinary experience has been exclusively with large animals, but she has a strong desire to help the dogs and cats in her community. This World Vets internship represents a new phase in her veterinary career as it will provide her with new skills and knowledge involving companion animals. After the internship, Julie plans to go back to her hometown and bring much needed veterinary care for companion animals in her community. Sponsor Julie HERE.
Mariela
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Mariela is from La Trinidad, which is located near the city of Esteli, Nicaragua. She has participated in previous training sessions offered through World Vets and is in her final year of veterinary school at the Universidad Católica Agropecuaria del Trópico Seco. She has always had an interest in animals and the desire to help them. She currently owns 3 dogs and a cat. After her internship, Mariela plans to work as a veterinarian with companion animals. Sponsor Mariela HERE.
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Mariel
Mariel is from Condega, located in the department of Esteli. She is in her last year of veterinary school at the Universidad Católica Agropecuaria del Trópico Seco and plans to become a veterinarian that works with companion animals. She likes to spend her free time with her family, her pet maltese and riding horses. Sponsor Mariel HERE.
By supporting the World Vets Latin American Training Center internships, not only will you help provide important veterinary training, but you’re also helping communities who do not have access to veterinary services for their animals. Thank you for your support!
For the last few years World Vets has been partnering with the Department of Health on San Andres Island to help control the small animal population through spay/neuter.
We’d like to thank all of our local partners for a true island effort as well as our volunteers and Fondation Brigitte Bardot who help make this project possible.
Paraguay, a landlocked country, is considered to be one of the poorest nations in South America as well as the least developed and most isolated. As a result of its seclusion, much assistance for animal welfare and veterinary training of local professionals is limited. To address the scare resources available for animals and the veterinary profession, World Vets operated a pilot project to Asuncion, the capital, in 2013.
World Vets will return to Paraguay October 22 – 29, 2014. The veterinary services that will be provided on this upcoming project include spay/neuter surgery for both owned and un-owned animals, along with other surgical procedures deemed necessary on a case by case basis. Medical consultations may also be provided for parasites, skin conditions in addition to any other health ailments that are presented. Moreover, team members will work alongside and/or provide guidance and instruction to local veterinary 
professionals.
World Vets is collecting donations to distribute new collars to animals in need in Nicaragua, and around the world! Many of the dogs we see have collars made of chains, rope, wire and many other materials that often cause harm and discomfort. Our goal is to provide 15,000 adjustable nylon collars. Please help us reach this goal!
This past month we reported on the massive flooding that devastated the small European country of Bosnia-Herzegovina, among its neighbors Croatia and Serbia. This flood crisis has left millions of animals and people in a dire situation and in desperate need for help. Thousands of animals died from the immediate impact of the floods, however many more livestock and companion animals were left requiring urgent assistance.
Vets deployed to the region. Our disaster response personnel worked in collaboration with the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Sarajevo and government officials to identify needs and get help where it is needed. Together we conducted country-wide assessments that identified animal concerns as well as supplies and equipment needed to help them. Bosnia-Herzegovina has many very capable veterinarians but many of the local veterinary clinics had been inundated with water and their medicines and supplies were destroyed giving an urgent need for relief supplies. Many family run farms lost their entire stock and animals that had survived moved to higher grounds. Surviving animals were 
suffering from a variety of conditions including pneumonia, infections and skin problems resulting from displacement, lack of available provisions and overall wet conditions.
On March 22, 2014 a massive mudslide engulfed a rural neighborhood near Oso, Washington killing 42 people. One person is still missing. Homes and lives were shattered and community members are facing economic and other hardships that will continue for the foreseeable future. T
Are you a licensed, registered or certified veterinary technician (or veterinary nurse)? World Vets has exciting volunteer opportunities just for you.
Cusco, Peru (Sept/Oct): 
For the past two years World Vets has been working in the Dominican Republic to address the issue of overpopulation in companion animals. Working alongside local partners, Asociacion de Amigos por los Animales Sosua (AAAS), we recently carried out a successful operative over Memorial Day weekend. On this recent campaign, we provided high volume spay/neuter services in addition to other much needed veterinary care with great results.
