Your donation has an impact multiplied a hundredfold! Incredible but true, thanks to a combination of co-financing, snow-balling effect, and tax deduction.

• Co-financing: several governments give us grants in proportion of the private funds we have collected, often 4 times the private funds.

The people are often in debt with the money lenders. However the worst is no access to loans, when even money lenders refuse to lend!

How to underestimate the financial value of seeds for a farmer? Or a net for a fisherman? In Vietnam a minority has no access to the banks, a majority in Cambodia.

Not everything can be measured in dôngs or in euros! Number observations show that diseases and accidents are one of the major causes of poverty: the people are unprepared, and ready to pay huge amounts to save the family member. For this purpose they will not hesitate to sell their assets, like land, cattle, or to borrow at usury rates (120% or more).

In the villages, often poorly connected and far from the main roads, the animals die due to a lack of care. The peasants then loose a lot of money, they sell the dead animal at a discounted rate on the local market.

We have already trained more than a hundred para vets, two thirds of them now work full time for their new job. They have basic knowledge, but soon a lot of practical experience, they can resolve most cases, do the vaccinations, give advice for better hygien and nutrition. The advantages are many: