Indigenous Empowerment
Amici Cannis is dedicated to empowering Indigenous communities in Ecuador by providing essential veterinary services. Our commitment goes beyond just treating animals; we aim to enhance the overall well-being and resilience of these communities through comprehensive and compassionate care.
Access to veterinary services is often limited in remote Indigenous areas, which can lead to health and welfare challenges for both animals and people. Recognizing this need, Amici Cannis implements targeted programs that bring high-quality veterinary care directly to these communities. Our services include preventive care, vaccinations, spaying and neutering, and emergency medical treatment for dogs and cats.
Moreover, our programs provide opportunities for community involvement and collaboration. We work closely with Indigenous leaders and residents to ensure that our efforts are aligned with their needs and priorities. This inclusive approach helps build trust and strengthens the community's capacity to sustain these positive changes.
Indigenous Family Fund (IFF)
Most of the Indigenous families residing in villages around Cotacachi face systemic poverty and inequality, making it challenging for them to access even basic veterinary care for their animals.
Our initiative to provide veterinary care to underserved animals has two main focuses. On the one hand, we run large-scale sterilization, vaccination, and deworming campaigns to ensure that animals remain healthy and safe. This, in turn, reduces the number of abandoned animals. At the same time, through our Indigenous Family Fund (IFF), our hospital provides discounted and sometimes free veterinary services to animal guardians registered under Ecuador’s Human Development Bonus. This Bonus is allocated to families living in poverty and extreme poverty. Most families that access this fund have animals with extensive needs that require hospitalization, sometimes surgery, or other necessary treatments to save an animal's life and would be cost-prohibitive to an individual or family on the Bonus.
Each year, we invest +$65,000 in our indigenous empowerment program.
Indigenous Empowerment
Within six miles of Amici Cannis’ Animal Hospital in Cotacachi, Ecuador there exists 24 indigenous villages. Many of the families who live in these villages make less than $450 per month. Their income barely covers their basic needs, making veterinary care an unaffordable luxury, and animal overpopulation a crisis.
Amici Cannis developed an indigenous outreach program, which provides low cost and free veterinary care and humane education in these villages. The result? We are improving the quality of life for people and their pets, reducing the spread of infectious diseases in animals and people, decreasing animal overpopulation, and increasing compassionate treatment towards animals. With such a high concentration of Indigenous Peoples and pets, we still have a lot of work to do and it requires a lot of resources. Each year, we invest $65,000 in our indigenous empowerment program.
Indigenous Empowerment
Amici Cannis is dedicated to empowering Indigenous communities in Ecuador by providing essential veterinary services. Our commitment goes beyond just treating animals; we aim to enhance the overall well-being and resilience of these communities through comprehensive and compassionate care.
Access to veterinary services is often limited in remote Indigenous areas, which can lead to health and welfare challenges for both animals and people. Recognizing this need, Amici Cannis implements targeted programs that bring high-quality veterinary care directly to these communities. Our services include preventive care, vaccinations, spaying and neutering, and emergency medical treatment for dogs and cats.
Moreover, our programs provide opportunities for community involvement and collaboration. We work closely with Indigenous leaders and residents to ensure that our efforts are aligned with their needs and priorities. This inclusive approach helps build trust and strengthens the community's capacity to sustain these positive changes.
Indigenous Family Fund (IFF)
Most of the Indigenous families residing in villages around Cotacachi face systemic poverty and inequality, making it challenging for them to access even basic veterinary care for their animals.
Our initiative to provide veterinary care to underserved animals has two main focuses. On the one hand, we run large-scale sterilization, vaccination, and deworming campaigns to ensure that animals remain healthy and safe. This, in turn, reduces the number of abandoned animals. At the same time, through our Indigenous Family Fund (IFF), our hospital provides discounted and sometimes free veterinary services to animal guardians registered under Ecuador’s Human Development Bonus. This Bonus is allocated to families living in poverty and extreme poverty. Most families that access this fund have animals with extensive needs that require hospitalization, sometimes surgery, or other necessary treatments to save an animal's life and would be cost-prohibitive to an individual or family on the Bonus.
Each year, we invest +$65,000 in our indigenous empowerment program.
