North America
Haiti: School and Relief Project
USA: Food for All
Haiti
Animal Health Care Training Project
Amurtel is developing a new program in the NW Artibonite area of Haiti to address the needs of rural animals. Currently Haiti does not have a veterinary college and there is a pressing need for trained animal care providers in rural areas. Goats, donkeys, cattle, horses, pigs and chickens are an integral part of the rural Haitian community and suffer from diseases that are consistent with the arid, desert landscape of this part of Haiti.
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The Animal and Health Care Training Program is scheduled to begin this fall with the arrival of Dr. Karen Anderson of Fayston, Vermont, who will lead a program offering animal health care training to veterinary agents in the North West. Dr. Anderson, a veterinarian for 25 years, will be providing training in a number of areas relating to animal husbandry. Dr. Anderson will be working with Elizabeth Sipple, originally of Fayston, Vermont, who is heading an AMURT program on reforestation and progressive farming in this same area of North West Artibonite. Elizabeth, a trained agronomist, has been working in Haiti for the past few years and is arranging the animal training and treatment program to specifically address the health care of the domestic animal population.
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For more information on the Animal Health Care Training Project, or to
make a contribution earmarked for medicines and veterinary medical equipment,
please email
Dr. Anderson: haitivetproject at amurtel.net
Photo credits: Photos from Dr. Schumann’s Veterinary Agent Training Project
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