We share the care.
Our community outreach.

So many pet owners in Grabouw, Elgin, Villiersdorp, Vyeboom and surrounding areas would like to get the necessary treatment for their beloved pets, but simply cannot afford it. 

Because of this, important procedures like sterilisations, vaccinations and parasite prevention (worms, ticks, fleas) are neglected. This results in animals suffering from serious and often fatal diseases that could have been prevented. 

How does the CVC work? 

We at Villiersdorp Animal Clinic are proud founders, along with Grabouw Animal clinic, of the Elgin CVC that covers the Elgin, Grabouw, Vyeboom and Villiersdorp area. Donations to this non-profit organisation allow us to provide essential veterinary services, sterilisations and vaccinations to those animals who don’t have owners or whose owners don’t have the funds to afford even basic veterinary care.

We run a welfare clinic out of the main clinic twice a week that further allows us to assist in providing excellent veterinary care even to those animals whose owners ordinarily wouldn’t be able to afford it. And to give back even more where we can, we regularly do pro-bono, hands-on education –  from pre-primary school talks to on-farm education and outreach engagements.

The Elgin Valley Community Veterinary Clinic operates from Grabouw Animal Clinic’s private consulting rooms. This means our welfare patients have the benefit of receiving help and treatment from the same qualified vets and trained staff who work at our modern facility. 

Similar to the work we do for our Hermanus & Overberg CVC at the Hermanus Animal Hospital, our veterinarians in Grabouw donate their time and services pro bono to this worthy cause, whether it is for important routine treatments and procedures like vaccinations and sterilisations, or the more complicated surgeries and care needed.

Elgin Valley CVC concentrates on the vaccination and sterilisation of animals among disadvantaged communities and farm labourers from Villiersdorp, Botrivier (Rescued Animal Drive), Grabouw and Elgin (Grabouw Animal Welfare Society). We work closely with and rely heavily upon the welfare organisations in the area that assist with follow-up and education of the community. Further afield, we support Watershed Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation Fund (NPO 085-455), a very active and worthy cause.

Our veterinarians are happy to donate their time and services. But to operate efficiently, the clinic needs vital medicines, vaccinations, drugs for sedation, and other essentials in stock. To buy all of these, we rely solely on donations, and whatever amount the client can afford to pay, which is mostly very little or nothing at all. The generosity of our community members has been invaluable in helping us to run the clinic. So too has the hard work that staff members at CVC head offices in Pretoria put into fund-raising and applying to companies for help.

If you’d like to support any of our community outreach efforts, please contact us to find out how you can help. 

Thank you.