Dr. Conrad Van Dijk,
DVM, AHP, ACPV,
has 38 years of national and international
experience in the poultry industry as a
consultant and is now the full-time
Executive Director of CVMCanada.
Conrad is the supervisor of, and
directly involved in, the Sierra Leone
Project and travels to Sierra
Leone about three times a year. Having
lived in Sierra Leone and travelling there
frequently, he has seen firsthand the
devastation caused by civil war, poverty,
and chaos.
Conrad's international work has included
trips to Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria,
Bangladesh, Indonesia, China, Uzbekistan,
Bolivia, Brazil, St. Lucia/St. Vincent
(West Indies), and the United States.
He is willing to speak to any groups
(veterinarians, students, church groups,
farmers or others) on the topics of short
and long term missions, issues of
developing countries, evangelical issues
in Canada, and the Sierra Leone Project.
Email:
cvandijk@cvmcanada.org
Phone: (905) 627-3857
Anna
Van Dijk logs many hours volunteering
for CVMCanada. She can be found
collecting items for Container shipments to
Sierra Leone, making phone calls, stuffing
envelopes, staffing booths at conferences,
giving presentations, and fundraising.
We rarely see her sit still!
Angie
Bosman's (DVM)
interest in CVMCanada
began back when she was a student at the
Ontario Veterinary College. She was the OVC
student representative for CVMCanada until I
graduated in 1996. She has been working in
small animal medicine ever since,
concentrating on emergency and critical care
medicine in the last few years. She offered
some of her time to CVMCanada as a
volunteer, and was asked to take on the role
of Missions Director.
While she has not been on a veterinary
related missions trip, She has been on three
short term missions in the past, to Asia,
Grenada and Albania. She is learning the
ropes of her new position and looks forward
to getting to know and corresponding with
all of our missionaries!
Jamie Hamilton, BA, a 2004 graduate of
Redeemer University College, is CVMCanada's
Administrative Assistant and works out of
the office in Ancaster, ON.
She handles the promotional materials,
newsletter mailings, donor info, some
bookkeeping, sponsor correspondence, and many other administrative
tasks.
Tracy Van Dijk, BA, CGA, works full time
at Redeemer University College as the
Director of Financial Services but still
faithfully volunteers her spare time doing
more bookkeeping and accounting for
CVMCanada and the Sierra Leone Project.
Ruth Visser, an
experienced bookkeeper, has been hired to
help Tracy with the bookkeeping tasks.
We welcome her as the newest member of
CVMCanada's growing team of supporters and
staff!