Asia

VWB works with communities and local partners across Southeast Asia to strengthen animal health, livelihoods, and resilience through community-led One Health programs.

What We're Working On

Across Southeast Asia, the health of animals, local communities, and the environment are closely linked. By working with on-the-ground partners in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, we are helping to emphasize the importance of a One Health approach, recognizing the interconnection of human, animal, and environmental health.

Just as we do in Sub-Saharan Africa, VWB is dedicated to addressing the unique challenges faced in Southeast Asia through our extensive Volunteers Engaged in Gender-Responsive Technical Solutions (VETS) program. In Asia, our VETS program deploys Canadian volunteers to countries like  Laos and Cambodia. The primary goal of the VETS program is to uplift the economic and social well-being of marginalized individuals, with a specific focus on empowering women and girls in these Southeast Asian nations.

Through VETS, VWB is committed to implementing interventions that strengthen agricultural resilience, reduce vulnerabilities, and enhance the capacity of local communities to cope with challenges at the national level in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to promote agricultural best practices and their positive impacts on the environment, to build capacity of our local partner organizations, to enhance income generation activities, and to develop curriculums that train students in animal, human and environmental health programs.

Similarly, our Agriculture-based Growth and Resilience Opportunities for Women (AGROW) program enhanced the resilience of women and girls through animal, human, and environmental health (One Health) in three districts of Cambodia’s Battambang province (i.e., Rattankakmondul, Banan, and Ek Phnom Districts). AGROW employed innovative approaches to environmentally sustainable food production and farm diversification with a focus on cricket, chicken, and cattle farming as well as fodder crop management and vegetable production.

See below to learn more about each of our current projects in Asia.

VWB Projects in Asia:

Agriculture-based Growth and Resilience Opportunities for Women (AGROW)

Volunteers Engaged in Gender-Responsive Technical Solutions (VETS)