Women farmers accelerating community prosperity in Mukurwe-ini
Through our VETS program, our volunteer gender specialists are supporting women in Kenya by increasing their farms' dairy production and animal health knowledge.
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CASE STUDY: Wakulima dairy, Kenya, "Enhancing livelihoods for small-scale farmers"
VWB/VSF VETS volunteers are training farmers in Kenya to improve the health of their cows and calves. This case study looks at local farmer, Mary Wambui, who worked with VETS volunteers to increase her cows' milk yield.
"Knowledge is power": Supporting dairy farmers in Kenya through gender responsiveness training
Margaret David is a happy farmer from the Nkandone society of Meru Dairy Union. She is a proud farmer after benefiting from Veterinarians With Borders/Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Canada's (VWB/VSF) Volunteer Engaged in Gender Responsive Technical Solutions (VETS) project.
Gender equality training on farms in Kenya: "Empowering women and girls"
VWB/VSF is supporting gender equality training on farms in Kenya. "We can now see couples working together, which means the implementation of knowledge and skills we train farmers in is more effective."
Veterinarians Without Borders' #IDW203 Webinars - Feb. 8 & Feb. 10
As part of #IDW2023, Veterinarians Without Borders/Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Canada (VWB/VSF) will be hosting two webinars focused on building a more sustainable future.
“You have to work together”: A Kenyan couple’s story on improving their small-scale dairy farm
VWB has only recently expanded their work to the Meru Dairy Cooperative Union in Meru and utilizes a One Health approach to provide dairy cooperative extension officers and smallholder dairy farmers with trainings that will improve human, animal, and environmental health. This is done by exploring topics related to the health and nutrition of dairy cattle, as well as gender equity and financial empowerment of farmers. Most of the farmers that the volunteers visit have one to three cows and...
