Opening a new vet clinic nearly 3 years after the failure of our last one is no small feat. For...
Author: Catherine
Not Your Average Rescue Shelter
What makes VAAR different from other animal advocacy organizations in Vietnam and globally? For one, we are a non-speciesist organization,...
Shelter Staff Salaries are NOT a luxury
We need to talk about staff and why organizations like ours are not capable of running without having full time,...
A New Year and New Clinic
Thank you to all our supporters who have kept us running this year! We are so grateful for those of...
Update: Exports, Adoptions, and Closing the Shelter
We are strapped for cash to get the 5 animals out of our shelter ad into the US and we...
The Invisible Cat Meat Trade
While all focus remains on the dogs in Asia who end up in the dog meat trade, cats in Vietnam...
5 Reasons Animal Shelters Fail
As the director of an organization who has been on the financial edge for most of our shelter’s lifetime and...
US Adoptions wanted! December 3 Arrival!
We have a flight going to the US taking 3 adopted animals, but we have room for 2 more! We...
The Rare Moral Consistency of Animal Advocacy Organizations
I struggle to see the point to continue to work in a field such as animal rescue when the message...
Fundraising Challenges for VAAR
If there was one aspect of my job I could afford to outsource, it would be fundraising. Fundraising as an...