VN June 2021

Vetnuus | Junie 2021 20 An initiative of the SOUTH AFRICAN VETERINARY ASSOCIATION Non-profit Company: 1998/016654/08 Non-profit Organisation: 000-234 NPO Public Benefit Organisation: 130001321 This is a lovely article written by SERR Synergy which is a company that offer legal and B-BBEE certificate services. As part of our national SERR Synergy #attitudeofgratitude journey we tasked our various offices to nominate a charity of their choice. To summarise, apart from SERR Synergy making a financial contribution from our Socio-Economic Development Fund, we also encouraged our teams to get involved with their favourite charity. Our marketing team in Pretoria nominated the EduCVC Educational Program which is part of SAVA-CVC (South African Veterinary Association Community Veterinary Clinics) / Community Veterinary Clinics of SA Veterinary Association - originally established in 1998 and currently offers clinics in 57 communities across South Africa organised by 31 CVC clinics: https://web.facebook.com/communityvets/ The aim of CVC work is to prevent the problems that animal welfare’s in South Africa respond to by providing primary animal health care (vaccinations, deworming, tick and flea treatments and sterilisations) as well as education to owners of animals in lower income communities. The importance of education is therefore a cornerstone of the successof their clinics and theywanted tosupport formal education of individuals in lower income communities. EduCVC was established for this purpose in 2019 to provide bursaries for students studying the AnimalWelfare Assistant (AWA) course offered through UNISA. Our team joined their clinic in Eersterus where we got involved with preparation of vaccines, deworming treatments and tick and flea treatments to the community. The clinic also offers assistance for animal injuries and diseases. SERR Synergy visiting our Eersterus CVC Clinic Elsie Ellis from SERR spent a bit of time to educate children. SAVA-CVC always carries spare face masks to hand out to community members if they do not have one when arriving at the clinic. CVC News I CVC Nuus SERR Staff packed food into smaller bags to share with community members and also provided education on the use of free ecto-parasite treatments