Seasons-Greetings-Donation
Every year, instead of sending traditional Seasons' Greetings Cards, Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health supports charitable projects or organizations with activities that benefit animal welfare and people. The donation supports projects focussing on animals and projects focussing on the human-animal relationship.
In 2009 Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health supported Assistance Dogs International Inc. (ADI). ADI represents the worldwide assistance dog movement and has over 160 member organisations on four continents.
This year we are delighted that Intervet Canada Corp. has also joined this corporate initiative.
The purpose of ADI is to improve the areas of training, placement, and utilization of Assistance Dogs as well as staff and volunteer education. ADI sets standards and establishes guidelines and ethics for the training of these dogs, and improving the utilization and bonding of each team. Additionally, ADI initiates actions to enhance the legal rights of people with disabilities partnered with Assistance Dogs.
Assistance Dogs not only provide a specific service to their handlers, but also greatly enhance their lives with a new sense of freedom and independence.
In 2008 Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health supported APOPO, an organization training sniffer rats to save human lives. The rats are trained to detect landmines and UXO (unexploded ordnances). Additionally their exceptionally sensitive noses are also being tested to see if they can detect tuberculosis bacteria in human sputum samples.
In 2007 Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health’s Seasons Greetings Donation was added to the Afya Serengeti project to help control the incidence of animal and human rabies in north-western Tanzania. This donation provided the team in Tanzania with the funds to replace the jeep, which is elementary for each year’s vaccination campaign and the investigation of rabies suspect cases.
Since 2000 a broad range of projects and organizations could benefit from this support, among them:
Heifer International
Rhino Fund, Uganda
Lion Aid, UK
Ride for the disabled
Aquaculture without Frontiers
Animal Aid Africa
