Rural Veterinary Experience Teaching and Service is a program that sends volunteer specialists and veterinary students to offer free care for hoses, mules and donkeys in remote areas of Mexica, Nicaragua and the United States. They’re also helping owners treat their animals more humanely than in generations past. The RVETS clinic fills a veterinary training gap as vet schools in Mexico are putting less emphasis on horses in favor of companion animals. This article highlights a weeklong roving clinic during which 813 animals were castrated, dewormed, vaccinated or otherwise treated.
Source: The New York Times, May 9, 2023. Link. What they teach you in school is one-third of what life in the countryside is really like. I do it for them, for the horses.” Dereck Alejandro Morin, vet student and RVETS volunteer.