Training and Equipping of CAHWs in Lengasiti, Tanzania

VETAID will select 10 villagers (at least half being women) in Lengasiti, Simanjiro District to train as Community Animal Health Workers.

They are given a four-week course of theoretical and practical education. After completion the new CAHW’s will be equipped with a basic set of instruments and medicines. The veterinary start-up kit contains medicines such as anthelminthics treatments, acaricides and antibiotics for use against tick-borne diseases as well as syringes, needles, a pan to sterilise equipment, disinfectant, a Burdizzo bloodless castrator and tools to treat infected hooves.

Every 4 months a veterinarian will visit them to give extra support and supervision after the initial training.

This project is being carried out with DIO Foundation in The Netherlands.