Our Veterinary Centre of Excellence is Open!
October 25, 2025 marked a milestone in our journey to wipe out rabies and end animal suffering in Tanzania, as the Gongo Centre opened its doors as the first Veterinary Centre of Excellence ever to exist in Tanzania’s Meru District.
Tanzanian vets and international veterinary volunteers at work in the Gongo Centre’s state-of-the-art Operating Theatre
Equipped with state-of-the-art surgical facilities, laboratory services and veterinary training rooms, the Gongo Centre provides the capacity that we need to accelerate our lifesaving work in Tanzania.
Today we are sending out a message of immense gratitude to all of our donors, sponsors and volunteers from around the world, who have given so generously, to make our shared vision of hope a reality for the people and animals of Tanzania.
The Gongo Centre at a Glance
A state-of-the-art animal hospital; a permanent base for our anti-rabies campaign work; a world-class training facility where international veterinary surgeons and paraprofessionals come to share their wealth of small-animal surgery skills with local Tanzanian vets and vet students: the Gongo Centre will transform the scale of our impact in Tanzania.
Built on the grounds of Mbwa Wa Africa Animal Rescue. the Gongo Centre’s facilities have been designed and built to the specifications of our expert international volunteer vet team: allowing us to accommodate and care for sick, injured, abandoned and neglected animals as well as accelerating our anti-rabies vaccination and sterilisation campaigns.
The Gongo Centre Clinic: built on the site of Mbwa Wa Africa Animal Rescue
Stopping rabies in its tracks: at the Gongo Centre, we can:
Vaccinate 20,000 animals per year
Spay & neuter 4,000 animals per year
Educate 1,000 local children per year in the safe and humane treatment of animals
Train 24 local vets per year in vital small-animal surgery skills that enable them to keep local dog populations in check
Naftal receives training on The Gongo Centre’s new haematology software
Ending animal suffering and saving lives: as the region’s only world-class veterinary hospital and training facility, the Gongo Centre is fully equipped to:
Provide urgent veterinary care for sick and injured animals
Quarantine animals when they come to our centre
Prevent the spread of infection and isolate animals with infections diseases in our purpose-built isolation unit
Allow multiple vets to perform different surgeries at the same time in our surgical theatre
Deliver training seminars and masterclasses to local vets
Expand the lifesaving activities of Mbwa Wa Africa Animal Rescue
Shelter dogs and cats in our Kennels and Cattery.
Tanzanian team Emmanuel, David, Naftal & Anita prepare animals for surgery at The Gongo Centre
We need your support more than ever
The Gongo Centre is the base that we so desperately needed in order to save more lives faster. Now, we need your help to keep it going.
Our lifesaving work at the Gongo Centre is wholly funded by the generosity of donors like you from all around the world.
With your ongoing support, we can continue to make a bigger difference: leveraging the Gongo Centre’s full potential to save more animals from suffering; protect more communities from rabies; and train a new generation of skilled small-animal veterinary practitioners in Tanzania.
Our expert Tanzanian veterinary team: veterinary surgeon Anna, with paraprofessionals Naftal & Haike