Projects
Five projects, and what each one would change
Our four programmes run every year and are funded from the clinic fund. Projects are separate: time-bound, separately budgeted, and each one exists to remove a specific limit on the work.
A project only opens once a ward has asked for it and a budget exists on paper. We do not announce work we have not costed.
The project register
| Ref | Project | Where | Period | Budget | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDR-P09 | Mobile surgery unit | All wards | 2027–2028 | $46,000 | Seeking funding |
| TDR-P07 | Escarpment round | Manyara escarpment, 9 villages | 2026–2027 | $38,400 | Active |
| TDR-P08 | Isolation block, Njiro kennels | Arusha | 2026 | $9,400 | Seeking funding |
| TDR-P04 | Ward warden stipends | 12 wards | 2022– | $7,900 a year | Active |
| TDR-P05 | School bite-prevention rollout | 34 schools | 2024–2025 | $12,200 | Completed |
Budgets are the full cost of delivery, including the staff time and transport a project consumes. We do not quote a project price that excludes the vehicle and then ask the clinic fund to cover it.
Three of them in detail
Escarpment round
Nine villages along the Manyara escarpment sit outside the annual round because the road is impassable for four months and the drive is three hours each way. They are also where the herding dogs that cross our core wards come from, which means our coverage figures in Selela and Engaruka are flattered by a gap we have never closed.
The project funds a second vehicle on hire for two seasons, fuel, and eight additional clinic days a year, until the nine villages are inside the ordinary round and paid for from the clinic fund like everywhere else.
- PeriodMarch 2026 to November 2027
- Budget$38,400 in full
- Funded61%, by two trusts and 140 monthly donors
- Still needed$14,900 to complete the 2027 season
- Measured byCoverage in the nine villages, reported in the ward table
Mobile surgery unit
Sterilisation currently happens under a tarpaulin, on trestle tables, with a generator. It works, and the complication rate of 1.4% says it works well, but it caps us at eighteen to twenty-four surgeries a day and it stops entirely when it rains hard. Two clinic days were abandoned mid-list last season.
A fitted-out vehicle with a sealed theatre, its own power and a recovery bay would roughly double the daily surgical capacity, remove weather from the schedule, and let two surgeons work without the setup and breakdown that costs ninety minutes at either end of every day.
- Period2027 to 2028, if funded by March 2027
- Budget$46,000 including fit-out and first-year servicing
- FundedNothing yet
- Would changeFrom ~20 to ~40 sterilisations a clinic day
- Would not changeThe cost per dog, which stays near $45
School bite-prevention rollout
Forty minutes in Kiswahili, taught by someone from the same ward: how to read a dog that wants to be left alone, what to do in the first ten minutes after a bite, and why fifteen minutes of soap and water matters more than anything else that happens that day.
Closed in November 2025, on budget. The follow-up survey six months later found that 71% of children could describe the washing procedure unprompted, against 12% before. The session is now part of the ordinary programme and costs nothing to run beyond staff time.
- PeriodJanuary 2024 to November 2025
- Budget$12,200, fully spent
- Delivered34 schools, 9,100 children
- ResultCorrect bite first aid recall up from 12% to 71%
- NowFolded into the annual round at no extra cost
Fund a project
Two projects are unfunded, and together they come to $55,400.
A project can be funded in full, in part, or by line — the vehicle fit-out, a season of fuel, the roofing sheets for the isolation block. Whatever the size, you get the same reporting, and we will tell you plainly if a project stalls or closes early.
- QuarterlyWhat was spent, what was delivered, and against which line of the budget
- AnnuallyAudited accounts, and the coverage figures the project was meant to move
- ImmediatelyIf the project changes shape, stalls, or we decide it was the wrong idea
- NeverA photograph of a household or a dog in distress used to ask you for more
Fund the next clinic day
One hundred and eighty dollars puts the vehicle, the team and the drugs in a village square for a day — about ninety dogs vaccinated and twenty sterilised, at no cost to the households that feed them.