Investing in the future: community training
Many of the injuries we see could be prevented with an understanding of basic animal care. At SPANA, we’re working to make sure that wherever we treat, we also train.
By building skills and knowledge within communities, we’re helping to improve animal welfare in a sustainable way, preventing injuries and promoting compassion.
Meanwhile, by distributing comfortable tack, and by training local artisans to produce appropriate alternatives, we’re working hard also getting to the root cause of common problems.
Sharing skills: professional training
Our vets provide vital treatments to hundreds of thousands of animals each year – but millions more still need our help. That’s why we also deliver professional training that improves skills in low-income countries across the world, supporting local vets, vet students, farriers and technicians.
We’re working with teachers too, sharing the techniques and knowledge they need to deliver effective animal welfare and sustainability education that can transform the communities in which animals work.
SPANA in numbers
117.2K
animal owners trained in the last year
2,303
teachers trained
616
veterinary students trained in the last year
Read about our training projects around the world
Helping working animals in Ethiopia
Helping working animals in Morocco
Helping working animals in Zimbabwe
