Animal diseases devastate the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world. For this reason, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Department for International Development have entrusted 28 million USD to GALVmed over the next three years to make livestock vaccines, diagnostics and medicines accessible, affordable and available to the poorest people.
Tabitha lives with her husband and five children in Nzeluni village nearMwingi in Eastern province in Kenya. She was chosen to be theToggenburg buck keeper in the FARM-Africa Kenya Dairy Goat Capacity Building Project.
MacDonald lives in Nzeluni village near Mwingi in Eastern province in Kenya. Trained as a community animal health worker by FARM-Africa, he was given a drug kit, bicycle and mobile phone. He treats and gives advice on animal health to local farmers in his community and these days his business is thriving.
Ruben Mushao lives in Mundara village in Longido District, a Maasai area in Tanzania. Since he began vaccinating his calves against East Coast fever, the number of his cows increased from 300 to almost 1000 despite the drought.
Newcastle disease and the elephant in the room Korleri Thakur is a farmer with a jumbo-sized problem. Although her family has four acres of land and should be able to […]
Niranjan Pradhan, 26, from Bayakumotiya village, Keonjhar District, Orissa State, India Seven years ago high school graduate Niranjan trained as an accountant to assist his self-help group, a role he continued […]
“Last time 20-25 chickens died. I had to borrow money from the neighbours and relatives. We lost 3,000 rupees (US $ 50).”