Travel Scholarships Awarded For Work In India And Kenya

Abigail Collinson and Catherine Wilson were today (Saturday) announced as the joint winners of the Harry Steele-Bodger Memorial Scholarship travel award for 2009. The announcement came during the Awards Ceremony at the British Veterinary Association’s Annual Congress in Cardiff. Abigail Collinson, who graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in July, was awarded £550 towards a feasibility study for the provision of a community-based animal healthcare worker (CAHW) scheme in the region of Kharekhari Village, Rajastan, India. Catherine Wilson, a final year student at the University of Cambridge Veterinary School, also received £550 to enable her to start a study into the zoonotic causes of abortion present in domestic ruminants in Western Kenya and correlate her findings with the zoonotic diseases present within the human community in this area. The Trustees of the Harry Steele-Bodger Memorial Scholarship Fund commented that both these were useful humanitarian projects which would not only be of educational value to the award recipients but would benefit communities in developing countries.

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