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More than 59,000 people die from rabies around the world each year \u2013 that\u2019s about 1 person every 9 minutes. \u00a0Asia accounts for almost 50% of all human deaths from rabies \u2013 \u00a0it is estimated that half of these are children under the age of 15!! \u00a0We find these figures unacceptable, and are committed to finding an effective solution to this problem n Laos. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Our goal is to develop an effective community-based programme to complement the efforts of the Lao government and help prevent the spread of rabies in our communities.<\/p>\r\n
Project Vatsana<\/strong> is a village-based vaccination programme that one of our community members Mrs.Vatsana (Tay) Darke suggested that we consider. Tay explained that it is often difficult for less affluent Lao people to bring their dogs and cats for vaccination if they do not have access to cars.\u00a0 <\/span>She recommended a pro-active, village-based programme where our volunteers would work with Naibans (village heads) and Abbots of temples to vaccinate dogs and cats on site at all the villages. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n In addition to conducting vaccination clinics on the village level, our volunteers will also help to educate the villagers to help empower them with knowledge necessary to keep them and their families safe from rabies.\u00a0 <\/span>Our goal with Project Vatsana<\/strong> is to educate, vaccinate and eliminate rabies as a threat to people in Laos.<\/p>\r\n Educate.\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>Education is essential to help communities understand how to eliminate rabies in the area. We hope to achieve this by also developing partnership with schools \u2013 both international and local.\u00a0We strongly feel that by working with the next generation, we can change the way people in Laos care for animals and improve the quality of life for both people and their animals.<\/p>\r\n Vaccinate<\/b>. \u00a0We are committed to working with the Lao Government to support their annual rabies vaccinations on World Rabies Day.\u00a0Our long-term goal with Project Vatsana<\/strong> is to supplement that programme with an ongoing vaccination clinics on the village level to ensure all the dogs and cats in those areas are protected against rabies. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n Eliminate.<\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>Our main goal and the mission of this project is to vaccinate all companion animals in the area to eliminate rabies as a threat to both animals and people.\u00a0 <\/span>We also would like to vaccinate village dogs and cats against other diseases, however, this will depend on availability of those vaccines and budget.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 59,000 people die from rabies around the world each year \u2013 that\u2019s about 1 person every 9 minutes. \u00a0Asia accounts for almost 50% of all human deaths from rabies \u2013 \u00a0it is estimated that half of these are children under the age of 15!! \u00a0We find these figures unacceptable, and are committed to finding an effective solution to this problem n Laos. \u00a0 Our goal is to develop an effective community-based programme to complement the efforts of the Lao government and help prevent the spread of rabies in our communities. Project Vatsana is a village-based vaccination programme that one of our community membersRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vimaansuan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vimaansuan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vimaansuan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vimaansuan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vimaansuan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/vimaansuan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/vimaansuan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vimaansuan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}PROJECT VATSANA
<\/b>EDUCATE \u2013 VACCINATE \u2013 ELIMINATE<\/b><\/h2>\r\n