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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.

Dates: 22^nd February to 1^st March 2025 (dates may vary depending on travel arrangements)

Duration: One week

Location: Mardin city, Türkiye

BEVA Trust is looking for one or two volunteer vets to travel to Türkiye to support an international workshop held at Afton Kocatepe University organised by Prof. Dr. Halil Selçuk Biricik.

The workshop on Working Equids is intended to introduce Veterinarians, owners, local authorities, researchers, and Veterinary students to the field of Donkey Welfare and to held in Mardin City of Türkiye in February 2025. Mardin (https://goturkiye.com/blog/the-cradle-of-civilizations-the-city-of-tolerance-mardin) is one of the oldest cities of upper Mesopotamia, located in the Southeastern Anatolia region of Türkiye. Donkeys haul garbage collected in Mardin, a province under UNESCO protection, due to a ban on vehicles in the province’s narrow streets.

The volunteers will participate in field visits to local communities, equine hospitals and local welfare organisations. Volunteers will also visit the University and deliver lectures on donkey welfare to students at Afyon Kocatepe University. Volunteers will all deliver sessions for the first Donkey welfare conference.

Knowledge and practical experience of working equids' welfare is desirable but not essential, including skills such as handling and restraining techniques, lameness, oral fluid administration, basic wound management, first aid during emergencies, basic dental care, skin problems, and ectoparasites.

Flights, accommodation and meals will be provided by host and BEVA Trust.

For health information and entry requirements for Türkiye please read Turkey travel advice - GOV.UK

For more information about volunteering with the BEVA Trust take a look at the volunteering FAQ’s

Contact us if you have any questions about the opportunity. To apply to volunteer for this project please email your CV and covering note. Applications close on 1^st January 2025.

The BEVA Trust is looking for 1 or 2 volunteers to speak at the 18th The World Equine Veterinary Association (WEVA) Congress in January 2026. WEVA is an international charity whose mission is to support the welfare of equids worldwide by promoting high-quality clinical education, particularly to veterinarians working in developing countries. Our work includes staging a biennial international congress in partnership with different national organisations. We are excited that WEVA is collaborating with the Thailand Equine Veterinary Association to stage its 18^th WEVA Congress in Bangkok, from 28^th to 30^th January 2026.

WEVA would like us to help to achieve our objectives by asking for one or more volunteers to share their knowledge at the Congress. The volunteer(s) will be supported to attend by the BEVA trust who will fund economy travel. We would like to recruit a volunteer the following presentations (or similar with modified titles) in the specified sessions. Some moderation of titles can be discussed with the programme committee once volunteers have been selected.

 The conference will provide accommodation for speakers. The conference language will be conducted in English for the benefit of the majority of participants. The BEVA Trust will cover travel expenses. 

For further information, travel advice and entry requirements for Thailand see Thailand travel advice - GOV.UK

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 close 20th January 2025