Hi everyone! 

I'm Jyoti and I am currently a medical sciences student at the university of Edinburgh. Shortly after finishing my first end of year university exams this May I will be travelling out to Malawi to work with the Mission Rabies team there and help with some of the amazing work they do to protect people and dogs from rabies.

It's an international team including vets, vet students, and other students working together to vaccinate around 70% of the dog population (over 30,000 dogs in a month) in Malawi against rabies order to protect people and dogs against the disease. There is also an education campaign to raise awareness about rabies in local schools and communities and teach young children the basics of rabies control and dog care.   

Their work is incredibly important as rabies is a preventable disease that claims the lives of more than 60,000 people globally every year, the majority of which are children under 15 and in the poorest and most vulnerable parts of the world. Fatalities from rabies most often occur after a bite from an infected dog and fear of this awful disease results in hundreds of thousands of healthy dogs being inhumanely destroyed every year. Mission rabies is changing this!

I've set up this page because I'm really keen to raise as much money as I can for the charity. I am paying for my own trip there and so all money raised will go directly towards the charity and paying for the vaccinations, equipment and the education campaign in Malawi. 

Thank you so much for your support :).

http://www.missionrabies.com/

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