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For first time ever in Zambia, a dog campaign has sterilized 40 dogs and 3 cats! We had 3 rooms set up, 1 with preops, 2 the operations room and 3 the recovery room. We were over 25 people today making this happen, changing the life of these dogs forever. I can’t believe we are doing this! Thank you everyone, specially the vet students coming from Lusaka, and @abw_sees_the_world and Dr. Tich for coming ALL the way from Malawi, yes you heard right, to make a difference. You two are stars! First of the surgical days down! WE MADE IT!🧡🐾 * Por primera vez en la historia de Zambia, una campaña perruna ha esterilizado 40 perros y 3 gatos! Tres habitaciones listas: 1 sala de preoperatorios, 1 sala de operaciones y 1 sala de postoperatorios. Más de 25 personas haciéndolo posible, haciendo una diferencia en la vida de estos perros para siempre. Mil gracias a todo el equipo, sobretodo a los estudiantes de la universidad de Lusaka, y a los increíbles @abw_sees_the_world y Dr. Tich, que han viajado expresamente desde Malawi, si, habéis oído bien, para cambiar muchas vidas! Increíbles son! A por los siguientes días de cirugías! #helpzambiandogs

Are we there yet? 😅 #notevenclose #helpzambiandogs

The second day of the dog campaign has finished. We have vaccinated and dewormed 80 dogs, and also we had our first cats coming, 7! Also, we have started the Family photo section where we have a display of photos taken of the kids yesterday with their pets and it is a total hit! Tons and tons of kids around them just laughing and pointing! It has been a much quieter day today but still very busy making the plans for tomorrow! Will tell you more then!🧡 Ps. My bite is ok, I am going for another rabies shot tomorrow morning. Thank you all for asking! Also hope you are watching my stories!😍 * El segundo día de campaña perruna ha acabado y hemos vacunado y desparasitado 80 perros. Hoy por primera vez hemos tratado gatos, 7! También hoy hemos organizado la Family Photo donde colgamos fotos de los niños con sus mascotas tomadas ayer y es un súper hit! Montones de niños delante de las fotos señalando, riendo,.... increíble verlos! Un día mucho más tranquilo pero con muchísimo trabajo aún así preparando los planes para mañana! Mañana os cuento más! PD. Mi herida está bien, mañana voy a por otra vacuna de la rabia. Mil gracias a todos por vuestros mensajes 🧡 Espero que no os estéis perdiendo las stories 😍

What a day! The first day of the mass dog campaign has ended and I don’t even know where to start. After waking up at 4.30h to make everything ready and making our way to the school. When we arrived there was absolutely no one. No one. Maybe we didn’t explained good enough I thought. Around 40 minutes later tons of dogs just arrived all together. So many that the dogs started fighting with each other as there was not enough space. The place became that crazy I was bitten by a dog just walking by. As it was a compound dog and didn’t know if he had rabies or was vaccinated before, I rushed myself to the District Health Office for a rabies shot. The first time in my life bitten by a dog. Dogs and owners kept coming so we moved to the outside grounds of the school. Thankfully, after the worst beginning I could imagine the day went unbelievable. We vaccinated almost 400 rabies, 5 in 1 (for pups) and deworming. Also wound management and ear fly bites (what the dogs of this photo have on their ears). From the beginning until the end at 16.30h no one moved from their position, not even eating, to help as more dogs as possible! With a bite on my arm and happy as anyone! * Vaya día! El primer día de la campaña perruna y no se ni por donde empezar. Nos levantamos a las 4.30h para acabar los últimos preparativos e ir hacia la escuela. Primera sorpresa, al llegar no hay absolutamente nadie. Quizás no lo hemos explicado lo suficientemente bien pienso yo. Pasados más de 40 minutos llegan a montones perros y amos. Tan a montones que los perros literalmente se amontonan y empiezan las peleas. Tal locura que pasando por el lado de un perro salta sobre mi y me muerde en el brazo. Como no sabemos si tiene la rabia o si está vacunado me meto en el coche y me voy a la oficina de salud del distrito a por la vacuna de la rabia. La primera vez en mi vida que me muerde un perro! Los perros y los amos siguen llegando a montones y nos movemos al terreno exterior de la escuela. Después del peor principio que jamás habría imaginado el día ha ido increíble! Hemos vacunado casi 400 perros con rabia, 5 en 1 (bebés) y desparasitante. También hemos tratado (continúa en comentarios)

Finally, this day has arrived! The first day of our dog campaign in Chingola (Zambia)! 4.30am for us and starting the day to be ready! Please send your best thoughts our way! And thanks to all of you who have donated and shared, this is possible because of you. The gofundme campaign will remain open few days more, as we will buy more drugs if we get more funds. LET’S DO THIS! LET’S MAKE A CHANGE! 🧡🐾 #helpzambiansogs #thedzikoproject

Almost 3000km driven, working non stop, sleeping not enough with just one day off in one whole month. I am not lying if I say I feel over exhausted. Being in the Zambian bush is a challenge by itself, try to sleep in the car and organize a dog campaign never before done in Zambia. I never thought the dog campaign was going to be this much work to get it ready. From big things as finding accommodation for all the vets coming, create all education material, and translate it to local language, find local schools, getting all the drugs from the capital or tiny little things like thinking to buy blankets for the dogs recovery, or toilet paper. Millions, literally millions of things. To be honest I never thought we would raise that much money ever, my thought was 3000€ top being lucky. Either I knew it was the first time EVER someone was organizing a campaign like that in Zambia. “I am not a vet, how the heck am I gonna do this”, or “we won’t make it in time” or “why did I have to come up with this idea”. The feeling of failing raises every now and then. I feel it and it is terrifying. But then I look, I look around, I put my attention in the flowers, or how green is the grass or how actually blue was this dam. And then I am here, not in the future or the past. Here. We raised so much unexpected funds, we have vets coming from other countries, we have vet coming from all different provinces of Zambia, we have the vets students from the capital coming, the council, a volunteer coming all the way from England and so much more. And we did it. We did it. * Casi 3000km en coche, trabajando sin parar, sin dormir lo suficiente con solo un día libre en todo el mes. Agotada como no lo he estado un muchísimo tiempo. Estar en el bosque en Zambia ya es un reto, pues suma dormir en un coche y organizar una campaña nunca antes hecha en Zambia. Nunca pensé que habría tantísimo trabajo detrás de la campaña. Desde cosas grandes como buscar donde los vets van a pasar la noche, crear todo el material educativo y traducirlo a la lengua local, visitar escuelas, pedir medicinas a la capital, o pequeñas cosas como comprar mantas para que los perros (continua en los comentarios)