Where We Work

In order to ensure the success of our interventions, FVAI is engaged in projects that respond to very specific criteria:

Impact: FVAI's interventions must have a tangible impact. Therefore, we prefer targeting small communities with less than 20 000 inhabitants.
Sustainability: In order to ensure the continuity of its actions, FVAI will be working with its local partners on a recurring basis. A unique or one-time intervention rarely leaves a lasting impact.
Local Partnership: FVAI always works conjointly with a local and well structured non-governmental organization that shares the same vision, and is active in the community year round. At all times FVAI must have the consent of local veterinarians, and as much as possible works in close collaboration with them.
Safety and security: FVAI works in safe, peaceful, and politically stable countries.

Belize December 2022 (FULL)

Project Date: December 10-17, 2022

The Foundation for Veterinary Aid International (FVAI) will be back in Belize from December 10 to 17, 2022 after almost 3 years of absence. We will once again visit the village of Sarteneja. This will be our tenth visit to this dynamic little community. The majority of the villagers do not have a car and the nearest veterinarian is a two hour drive in a crowded bus or an hour's rowboat ride across the Bay of Corozal. By operating a clinic in the heart of the village, FVAI is the solution ...
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Tanzania October 2022 (FULL)

Project Date: October 12-November 4th 2022

In October 2022, FAVI will be back in Tanzania in the north of the country and on the mythical island of Zanzibar. This project will be very diversified and as inspiring as ever. There will certainly be something for everyone! For a tenth time since 2017, we will start our project on land in the Arusha region with our local partner Mbwa Wa Africa. "Mbwa" means dog in Swahili. If you are more of a "dog person" this portion of the project is for you! The clinic is mobile and we treat mostly ...
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Tanzania February 2022

Project Date: February 8-23, 2022

FVAI was back in Tanzania in February 2022. What a great way to start a new year with a wonderful pilot project on the mythical island of Zanzibar! Cats are plentiful in the streets of Stone Town and their seamless cohabitation with the human population is extraordinary. It is simply fascinating for those of us, who have a soft spot for the mini-tigers. However, cats reproduce quickly, especially when they have almost unlimited access to food. Two non-profit organizations, Paka clinic and ...
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Tanzania September 2021

Project Date: September 23-October 8, 2021

In September 2021, we were finally able to put back on our veterinary uniforms for the first time since February 2020. What a joy to be back in the field providing veterinary care to our Tanzanian fur buddies! FVAI, along with our faithful local partner Mbwa Wa Africa, sterilized 120 dogs and 3 cats. The next important date to remember is February 2022. A wonderful surprise awaits all you cat lovers. Welcome! Karibu! ...
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Tanzania February 2020

Project Date: February 19-March 5, 2020

The Foundation for Veterinary Aid International returned to Tanzania for the seventh time since its very first project in February 2017. Six new volunteers joined the extended FVAI family: two veterinarians, two animal health technicians, one assistant and two graduating veterinary students. Welcome! We sterilized 161 animals during this trip. An enormous thank you to our local partner Mbwa Wa Africa Animal Rescue for their warm welcome, and without whom this mission wouldn't be ...
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Belize-Humanitarian Voyage of the Beaumont Veterinary Clinic

Project Date: January 11-18, 2020

The Foundation for Veterinary Aid International (FVAI) is proud to offer free veterinary care to the animals of Belize for several years now. In January 2020 more than half of the health care professionals of the Beaumont Veterinary Clinic flew to Belize to support us in our humanitarian mission. What an amazing initiative on the part of this veterinary clinic. A highly motivating and unifying project for the employees! Their adventure began in spring 2019. The volunteers were incredibly ...
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Belize January 2020

Project Date: January 4-11, 2020

The Foundation for Veterinary Aid International returned to Belize from the 4-11 of January 2020. As soon as they got out of the airport, the volunteers of FVAI exchanged their winter boots for flip-flops and climbed aboard the "FVAI Mobile", a baby blue school bus from the village of Sarteneja. The road to this small community was as bad as usual: potholes, mud, zigzags, horse-drawn carriages, 10 wheelers, to finally travel the 110 km in 3 hours. This was our ninth visit to this dynamic ...
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Mexico, Baja California, October 2019

Project Date: October 13-20th 2019

The Foundation for Veterinary Aid International (FVAI) returned to Mexico from the 13-20 October 2019. Last February, we fell in love with the shelter known as Animalandia in the magnificent village of Loreto, Our small team of volunteers composed of two veterinarians, two animal health technicians and a veterinary assistant sterilized 131 animals in 4 days at no cost to the owners. Thank you to everyone involved! ...
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Tanzania September 2019

Project Date: September 18-October 3 2019

In September 2019, FVAI returned to Tanzania for the sixth time in two years. The team of volunteers comprised of 3 veterinarians and 4 animal health technicians, sterilized 208 dogs and 1 cat during this project. During our stay, 2 young Tanzanian veterinarians joined our group. We are proud to have shared our surgical knowledge with them so that they may eventually perform sterilizations throughout the year, to humanely control the animal population and consequently reduce the number of ...
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Baja California Sur, Mexico, February 2019

Project Date: February 10-16, 2019

In February 2019, the Foundation for Veterinary Aid International (FVAI) returned to Baja California, Mexico. This time they went to a brand new destination: the magnificent village of Loreto. Our adventurous team of fourteen volunteers went to this charming little community situated more than 350 km from La Paz in order to offer free veterinary care to their animals. Life sometimes brings where you need to be; in Loreto we had a chance to meet the indomitable Lucy, an extraordinary woman ...
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Belize January 2019

Project Date: January 5-12, 2019

The Foundation for Veterinary Aid International (FVAI) returned once again to Belize for the eighth time in January 2019. It is without a doubt one of our pet projects! A diversified team of 18 volunteers sterilized 176 dogs and cats in 4 days. We began our mission in the small village of Sarteneja, where we have always received a warm welcome year after year! The Belizean people now wait for us at the doors of the clinic even before it opens. The high level of participation shows how much ...
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Tanzania October 2018

Project Date: October 10-24th 2018

In October 2018 the Foundation for Veterinary Aid International (FVAI) returned to Tanzania for the fifth time in less than a year. We continued our mission started in October 2017, in the wards of Baraa and Kimandolu in the larger city of Arusha. A small group of FVAI volunteers consisting of 1 veterinarian, one animal health technician and 2 veterinary assistants sterilized at no cost, 101 animals, that is to say 99 dogs and 2 cats! Our local partner Mbwa Wa Africa (dogs of Africa in Swahili) ...
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