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All over the world, countless animals in overcrowded shelters live sadly or struggle for their survival in wild colonies. Day after day, even today, animals that have become inconvenient are still abandoned, deported or mistakenly kept for lack of better knowledge. The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation contributes with effective means to the fact that animal suffering can be reduced or even prevented sustainably.

This animal welfare work is based on four pillars:

1. Competence Centre Animal Shelter: Animal shelters become high-quality transition stations for homeless animals, where animals are kept and promoted in a way that is appropriate for their species and finally transferred to good new places.

2. Neutering campaigns: Braking the animal misery

3. Education and training of specialists: Specialists are given the opportunity to optimise their knowledge and improve animal welfare.

4. Education of the population: love of animals with heart and mind

These four elements form the important basis for sustainable animal welfare projects.

Those animals that are not yet able to benefit from the effects of this reconstruction work and have been born into a world where they are not wanted need the emergency aid of SUST.

Emergency aid as a basis for sustainable animal welfare projects: saving lives of animals

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Rabies vaccinations in the Democratic Republic of Congo

June 2018

Many people in North Kivu (Dem. Rep. Congo) keep dogs. However, dogs are also the main transmitters of rabies to humans. If a person is bitten by an infected dog, expert medical care must be provided immediately. This is difficult in the remote villages. In addition, most people in the region cannot afford the cost of treatment. It is easier and cheaper to vaccinate the dogs against rabies. The dogs in this region of the Congo are integrated into their families and are treated well by their owners. However, there is no money available for rabies vaccinations for these pet owners and the lack of vaccinations would result in the killing of these animals. For this reason, SUST has been covering the costs of many thousands of rabies vaccinations for dogs and cats in North Kivu since 2012. We are in constant contact with the organisation IDPE, which is once again carrying out and coordinating the vaccination campaign and animal welfare activities on site this year, and we are constantly receiving information and pictures about the course of this campaign. The training materials we supply also enable African animal welfare workers to educate the people about endo- and ectoparasites and thus prevent further zoonoses (and of course to improve the health of the animals and their owners).

Country:
  • Dem. Rep. Congo
5 Pillars:
  • Emergency Aid
  • Information to the public
Rabies vaccinations in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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