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Just wanted to share an exciting project that Kairos Coalition is currently working on.  During the week of 4-8 March, we will be working with Humane Society International and Yeu Dong Vat to conduct a series of workshops aimed at developing a deeper and broader public awareness about the disastrous implications of rapid industrialization of the animal agriculture sector in Vietnam. 

 

1) During the afternoon of March 4th and 7th, we will be conducting information awareness…

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Many of you will recall our plan to establish a communal foster home for dogs and cats rescued off the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam....a place where these scared and injured animals can find love and be prepared physically and temperamentally for eventual adoption into suitable forever homes. 

The Restored Hope Foster Home opened last spring in part through a grant of $1,500 in March 2012.  We followed up with a subsequent grant of $3,500 in August 2012 and recently…

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In December 2012, Kairos Coalition provided tuition grants totaling $2,800 to 74 primary, secondary and university students for this school year.  It may not seem like a lot of money but this was enough to cover the tuition and fees for these students for the first half of the 2012-2013 school year.  This was a continuation of the previous school year tuition grants top 74 students.  2 dropped out of the program so we added two new students to the scholarship rolls.  

Since the last…

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This is a short video from the ceremony to award the 2012 Kairos Coalition Planting the Seeds of Compassion Scholarship to each of 74 children from Nam Thắng village (Tiền Hải District, Thái Bình Province, Vietnam). I was particularly move

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What if you could really make a difference?

Do you really believe it  is within your power to do so?

Believe me, it really is possible....and it starts right here: The Restored Hope Foster Home Project

 

Since 2010, the Kairos Coalition has been collaborating with an inspiring group of young Vietnamese volunteer animal welfare advocates.  This…

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I am sad to share that Happy passed away at 1:30AM this morning (March 12, Vietnam).  Happy was one of the first cats in Vietnam to be equipped with a wheelchair following her rescue off the streets of Ho Chi Minh City.  Her story can be read here:  …

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Because we believe that education is an important component for developing more humane societies, in March 2012, the Kairos Coalition will pilot a new scholarship program in Vietnam.  Over the next five years (2012-2017), we have committed to assisting 60-70 low-income middle and high school students from Tien Hai District, Thai Binh Province in the completion of their education by providing comprehensive scholarships sufficient to cover tuition and book expenses.  In return for receiving…

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From September to November 2011, the Kairos Coalition collaborated with Yêu Động Vật (animal lovers) volunteers to plan and run a nation-wide Animal Welfare Propaganda Poster Contest in Vietnam as a component of the Kairos Coalition’s ongoing multi-faceted Humane Education program in Vietnam.

 

For the last seventy years, the Propaganda Poster has been a fundamental tool used by the Communist Party of Vietnam in its efforts to inform and educate the citizenry, extol…

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In May 2011, the Kairos Coalition sponsored a trip by three Yeu Dong Vat members to visit Bangkok, Thailand in order to conduct a fact-finding research mission about the operations and activities of SCAD Bangkok (www.scadbangkok.org) , one of Thailand’s best-known and most successful companion animal rescue/adoption and animal welfare education organizations in Asia.  SCAD was founded in 2002 by British Expatriate Sherry Conisbee. Originally, called…

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In October 2011, Kairos Coalition sponsored two representatives of Yeu Dong Vat to attend the 2011 No More Homeless Pets Conference held in Las Vegas, NV from 21-23 October. This conference, which is hosted by the Best Friends Animal Society, is one of the largest gatherings of companion animal advocates in the world.  Our YDV friends not only had the opportunity to attend highly informative and practical presentation and training sessions on subjects as varied as low-cost spay/neuter…

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I'm so thrilled to announce the completion (and availability!) of a Vietnamese Language Go Veg Guide (http://www.scribd.com/doc/71585820/Cam-Nang-an-Chay-Complete).  

This 21 page guide was developed in collaboration with Yêu Động Vật(ydv.rog) and Vietnam's Green Generation Network (Thế Hệ Xanh) with a generous financial grant from A Well…

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Sometimes, we don’t have to look very far for opportunities to do good things.

Often, they simply find us. Fate does all the hard work. We just have to keep our eyes open and be willing to take risks when such moments arise. All that is required of us is compassion, courage and perhaps a bit of faith.

I call these moments “Kairos” opportunities, points in time that collide with destiny to create a singular window of wondrous opportunity. These moments cannot be measured or…

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In Hanoi, the Kairos Coalition has partnered with IOGT-VN, a domestic youth development NGO, to pilot a Humane Edutainment program aimed at fostering the development of a cadre of youth grassroots animal activists. IOGT-VN has ten years of experience in developing the leadership potential of Vietnamese youth, but had never before been involved in animal protection issues; however, they were intrigued by the Humane Edutainment concept and have quickly become its most enthusiastic… Continue

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If oppression and cruelty to animals is a sickness… a cancer eating away at the soul of humanity and wreaking destruction upon all of creation, then perhaps a Humane Vaccine is what is called for…



Vaccines are biological preparations that are designed to improve an organism’s reaction to a particular disease. They can be created for prophylactic purposes…that is to prevent a future infection by a particular pathogen…or they can be therapeutic…intended to cure an existing… Continue

A truck on Highway 8 in Laos transporting dogs for meat from Thailand to Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam today stands at the same…

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Thanks for your interest in what Kairos Coalition is trying to achieve in Vietnam. Someone asked me the other day to describe in a single sentence the vision of Kairos Coalition. I answered that I could do better than that…I could do it in two words…“time travel”. That response got a pretty funny look, but if you think about it what we really are talking about is very much like the plot of that 1985 movie “Back to the Future” with Michael J. Fox and the Christopher Lloyd. Let me explain what I… Continue