Lets Chat About Cats - Episode 10 with special guest Linda Van Gelder from Stichting Buitenlandse Asielen SBA

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In this episode I chatted with the lovely Linda Van Gelder the secretary from the Stichting Buitenlandse Asielen (SBA) who are a non profit organisation based in the Netherlands.
SBA is a foundation helping other animal shelters all around the world. They provide not only financial help for a guaranteed period of agreed time but they also assist with ways to make the shelters operate better, more efficiently and provide other vital support.
Once the shelters are able to cope on their own and no longer need the help of SBA then they go it alone but SBA maintain contact and will lend further support if necessary and encourage the shelters to continue their positive work and are very happy when the shelters become self sufficient as it means they have helped them enough for them to do so.
The SBA currently provides financial help and assistance for between 17-22 shelters around the world from places such as Colombia and Costa Rica in Central and South America. In Europe places such as Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Spain, Slovakia and the Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary in Rome. SBA even help shelters as far away as Asia in Sri Lanka and Thailand.
SBA was set up in 1983 by Mrs Diny Brummelman and has a cooperation agreement with the Dutch Government.
The organisation relies on donations to keep operating and passes these much needed funds onto the various shelters receiving their support.
You can find SBA on Instagram @stichtingbuitenlandseasielen and their new website is being created currently and you can find it when its operational on Stichting Buitenlandse Asielen is under construction but in the meantime check out their old website for more about this fantastic organisation! Organisation - Stichting Buitenlandse Asielen (s-b-a.info)
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