South West Livestock Professional Association - Sowelpa

SOWELPA is a non-governmental association that comprises of vet/vet assistant, zoo-
technician professionals from six regions of Southwest Somalia-namely Bay, Bakol, Gedo, Lower Juba, Middle Juba and Lower Shabelle. A group of vet/vet assistant professionals founded the association in 2002 in Baidoa district, Bay, Somalia. The aim of the establishment of the association was to revive and restore the collapsed livestock delivery services as result of the absence of the central government of Somalia, which caused the livestock communities to have been, faced by livestock health and production problems.