Kassie's South Africa Trip

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to put the link for my gofundme page up just in case anyone wanted to donate :) 

Howdy everyone! My name is Kassie and I am a senior Texas A&M student from Fort Worth, Texas and am graduating with an Animal Science major, Genetics minor and Equine Programs certificate in the spring of 2017. Whoop! I would have graduated this coming spring semester, however I elected to take a six month equine embryo transfer internship and was able to study under 4 amazing veterinarians. I found out a couple weeks ago that I have been selected by the Texas A&M Chapter of Veterinarians Without Borders to go to South Africa. We are currently doing various fundraising events to help pay for our trips, such as bake sales, garage sales, and profit shares through the local restaurants. I am extremely excited to study wildlife conservation, disease surveillance, and animal health management next summer with some other awesome people from Texas A&M, but I do need some more help to get there!  This is a non-profit trip and it does not count for any study abroad or internship credit. It is purely volunteer work. The trip will also consist of visiting clients to do risk assessments for disease threats, conducting post mortems, executing condition assessments, collecting parasitic samples, diagnostic testing, taking care of orphaned animals, and assessing rare and expensive wildlife. We will be staying just outside of Kruger National Park and will be able to visit Jessica the Hippo (visit her page here: http://www.jessicahippo.com/ ) and take various ferry boat trips to view the exotic ocean life around South Africa. It has always been a lifelong dream of mine to become a veterinarian, and just recently I have been contemplating going into wildlife. I am so thankful to have been chosen to go on this trip and be able to truly gain the experience needed for me to commit the rest of my life to decision I will have to make within the next year or so. I will be starting this blog detailing my experiences from start to finish throughout my journey.