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COMMUNITY SERVICE<br />
it, VeTouch gives veterinary students<br />
and veterinary technician students the<br />
opportunity to gain valuable clinical<br />
experience while promoting the humananimal<br />
bond and establishing a veterinaryclient-patient<br />
relationship.<br />
“The goal is to give students experience<br />
and help the less fortunate at the<br />
same time,” Wilke says. “Students<br />
get experience doing exams, giving<br />
vaccinations, and talking with clients.<br />
And VeTouch’s work promotes urban<br />
community health and enhances the<br />
welfare <strong>of</strong> people and animals in<br />
<strong>Minnesota</strong>.”<br />
Working with VeTouch, students learn to<br />
be resourceful and adapt to the resources<br />
at hand, Wilke says.<br />
“It makes them think, ‘OK, these are<br />
my resources, and these are my client’s<br />
resources. How can we make the best use<br />
<strong>of</strong> these resources to help this animal’”<br />
STUDENT PROFILE<br />
Jeanne Marie de Lyra<br />
CLASS: 2015<br />
HOMETOWN: West Islip, New York<br />
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS:<br />
vice president, VeTouch; president,<br />
Feline Medicine Club<br />
PROFESSIONAL GOALS: small animal<br />
medicine, with the hope <strong>of</strong> becoming<br />
an American Board <strong>of</strong> Veterinary<br />
Practitioners certifi ed feline practitioner<br />
Want to<br />
help<br />
VeTouch<br />
Dues-paying veterinary<br />
students comprise most<br />
<strong>of</strong> the volunteer force, but<br />
community veterinarians,<br />
veterinary technicians, veterinary<br />
technician students, and preveterinary<br />
students are also<br />
welcome. Even if you have no<br />
veterinary experience, you can<br />
still support VeTouch. E-mail<br />
vetouch@umn.edu for more<br />
information. Make a gift online<br />
at https://makingagift.umn.edu/<br />
onlinegiving/enterOnlineGiving.<br />
doowner=O_6379 or by mail<br />
to the <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Veterinary<br />
Medicine’s development <strong>of</strong>fice at<br />
1365 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul,<br />
MN 55108.<br />
Orphan Kitten Project<br />
A registered veterinary student organization with over 50<br />
volunteer members, the Orphan Kitten Project was originally<br />
founded as a group <strong>of</strong> foster parents dedicated to caring for<br />
abandoned nursing-age kittens. Orphan Kitten Project foster<br />
parents spend many days and nights bottle-feeding tiny<br />
kittens until Rescued Pets Are Wonderful, a nonpr<strong>of</strong>it rescue<br />
organization, can find permanent homes for them. In 2012,<br />
Rescued Pets Are Wonderful found permanent homes for<br />
over 940 cats and kittens, about 140 <strong>of</strong> which came from the<br />
Orphan Kitten Project.<br />
While orphaned kittens comprise much <strong>of</strong> the Orphan Kitten<br />
Project’s work, the project’s foster parents now care for older<br />
cats and orphaned puppies, too. Want to be a foster parent or<br />
adopt an Orphan Kitten Project pet Adoptions are facilitated<br />
through Rescued Pets Are Wonderful (www.rpaw.org), and<br />
all animals receive vaccinations and heartworm testing<br />
and are spayed or neutered prior to adoption. Interested<br />
volunteers can<br />
visit the Facebook page<br />
“Orphan Kitten Project UMN CVM” or e-mail<br />
the Orphan Kitten Project team at okpfosters@gmail.com.<br />
Donations <strong>of</strong> supplies or funding may also be discussed<br />
through that address.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>iles <strong>Summer</strong>/<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2013</strong> 13
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