Do Good Feel Good

Do Good: The DL on Animal Rights with Cat Besch, Founder and CEO, VAAR

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Meowww! We are back with another VERY exciting guest. And she gets REAL. That's right, everything we love about doing good - bad words, funny jokes, passion and angst! She's just a real human trying to make real change.Cat Besch is the Founder and CEO of Vietnam Animal Aid and Rescue (VAAR), a 501c3 nonprofit operating in Hoi An, Vietnam since 2013. She opened the first nonprofit veterinary clinic and the only farm sanctuary in the country. VAAR runs a sanctuary for dogs, cats, pigs, chickens, and hedgehogs as well as projects for community outreach, sterilization and vet training programs, and vegan education programs for children and animal rescue groups. Cat has experienced a variety of political, cultural, and economic barriers in her work in Vietnam and continues to fight for animal rights globally and against speciesism and xenophobia within the animal advocacy movement.On this episode we chat about the process of starting a nonprofit in animal rights field and some of the major barriers which make