Our vital work is provided by three programs:

Australian Veterinary Emergency Response Team (AVERT):  creating and coordinating teams of volunteer veterinarians and veterinary nurses, willing to leave their usual workplaces at short notice and be dispatched to areas impacted by natural disaster. Our AVERT volunteers are trained to care for animals suffering as a result of bushfire, cyclone and waters rising and those affected by outbreak of exotic infectious disease (including rabies, foot and mouth disease and bird flu).

This new program is in the process of being rolled out, but we are urgently seeking funds to enable it to continue.

VetMatch: under which we dispatch our veterinary volunteers oveseas to work with animal welfare projects in most need of our assistance - delivering desperately needed care, saving lives and reducing the suffering of animals which have no other access to veterinary treatment. We also assist developing communities by providing targeted school and community education, increasing understanding of how to avoid contracting life-threatening diseases, such as rabies.

Since 2005, our volunteers have sterilised more than 30,000 stray dogs and vaccinated in excess of 65,000 animals against rabies in India, the country where the majority of deaths occur.

VetTrain: creating and dispatching teams of experienced and skilled volunteer trainers, to refine the  skills of clinical staff working with under-resourced animal welfare projects overseas. Improving the outlook for animals with no other access to such care.

$100 will help us purchase a kit of surgical instruments to perform surgical sterilisation of hundreds of stray dogs and cats, reducing the population of neglected animals and also the risk of dog-bite injury (mostly children) and thereby rabies infection. The instruments also enable us to deliver surgical training to enhance the skills of veterinary personnel working to improve the welfare of stray animals,

$50 will enable us to sterilise and anti-rabies vaccinate five stray dogs or cats in India, reducing the risk of transmission of rabies, which is estimated to kill over 50,000 humans and countless thousands of animals worldwide.

$25 will allow us to treat a stray dog for common diseases such as venereal tumour, mange and intestinal parasites, including diseases which are easily spread to humans, especially children.