In August, 11 amazing vet students from the University of Pennsylvania veterinary school came to volunteer for Darwin Animal Doctors. These energetic, resourceful, and invaluable volunteers treated animals on both Santa Cruz Island and San Cristobal Island during their stay.
In total, the UPenn vet students, along with our DAD vets, treated 542 animals, from August 12th to the 27th, including 66 sterilizations.
The volunteer team also aided the Galapagos National Park multiple times, performing sea lion necropsies with our vet Dr. Freddy Alcocer, for the Park on San Cristobal Island.
This campaign was also the inaugural campaign for our brand new clinic and volunteer house, which we just renovated. The new clinic house can house up to 10 volunteers at a time, as well as our Santa Cruz vet, Dr. Jose Galecio. The new space also holds a reception/exam area, large inventory space, and separate surgery room.
In addition to treating animals in our main clinic on Santa Cruz, and in the CIMEI San Cristobal clinic, they also treated animals in the Santa Cruz highland town of Santa Rosa, thanks to the hospitality of the Santa Rosa mayor. Sixty-one of the animals treated on this campaign were treated in Santa Rosa.
Darwin Animal Doctors continued its government-partnered teaching program on San Cristobal during this campaign month, as Dr. Alcocer taught humane conservation education both to primary school children, as well as the Navy.
A huge thanks to Nova Galapagos, a local Galapagos nonprofit, that is not only registering the Santa Cruz clinic space we have, but was of great help arranging accommodations and arrangements for our volunteers when they got trapped in Guayaquil on their way back to the US, because of Hurricane Irene!
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Campaign Statistics August 2011
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