VTRINAIRES SANS FRONTIRES Germany

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• VÉTÉRINAIRES SANS FRONTIÈRES - Germany

TIERÄRZTE OHNE GRENZEN e.V.

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History

• Milestones in VSF-Gs 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

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History

• 1998 first paid permanent staff
• 1998 opening of Regional Office Nairobi
• Today
• about 50 paid staff
• Budget around 1,5 Mio

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Structure

• Structure of VSF-Germany
• General Assembly
• Board of Directors
• 5 Regional Groups
• Head Office in Hannover
• Regional Office in Nairobi

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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

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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

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African
Regional Office
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Regional Groups

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

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Regional Groups
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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)

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Incountry-Projects

• Lectures and Information Events
• Publications
• Exhibitions
• Booster-Day
• Education Project for Children

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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

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Education for Children
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Booster-Day

• 1. Time 25th May 2004
• Co-operation with 30 Vets in Hanover and
  surounding
• Participation of famous personalities
• Objective
• Information Fundraising

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Booster-Day
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Publicity

• Main aim Increase public awareness of our
  organisation
• Workshop Weve 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

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Future

• High Priority Activities
• Stabilization and Reorganization of Financial
  System
• Improvement of Management and Communications
• Professional Public Relations and Fundraising

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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

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Future

• Set up structures that allow to take up other
  project countries
• Make VSF-G well known in Germany amongst the
  respective target-groups

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• Projects

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Projects Where?

• South Sudan (Bahr-El-Ghazal, Jongolei, Shilluk
  Kingdom)
• Eastern Equatoria (Kauto Payam)
• Kenya (Massai Mara)

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Projects - Aims

• Train locals in basic animal treatments
• Improve animal health
• Secure food supply
• Insure income for weak minorities
• Maintain peace
• Involve women

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Projects Boma

• Reservoir area of Rinderpest
• Mass vaccination campaign
• Training of animal health workers
• Active disease surveillance

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Projects - Boma

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

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Projects Shilluk Kingdom

• 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

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Projects Massai Mara

• 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