hello. welcome to "asian pacific america." i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozy tv. we feature some pet projects as we talk about a mission to xleer the shelters, animal shelters. this is a nationwide effort by nbc and telemundo to help agencies get adoptive pets into homes. we talk about projects connected with the peninsula humane society that benefit the clear the shelter program as well as the creative efforts by the family of guy kawasaki to help animals. we move to silicon valley,

which is part of the clear the shelters movement where they continue their vision of the community where every pet has a home. >> we move to highlighting one of the most colorful groups in the bay area, the chi am social circle. it is celebrating its 50th anniversary. we talk to chi am circle about that. we will feature one of the most popular artistic performances presented on asian pacific as we repay a visit to the cantabella clirn's chorus coming up later. the peninsula human society is a private independent nonprofit which prides itself on doing more than some of the traditional animal facilities. the peninsula human society is an open door shelter and accepts all animals, regardless of age, breed or size. it has rehoemd 100% of its healthy dogs and cats.

it promises to try to keep doing it. they were seeking submissions of short videos to help promote their foster care program. with me is one of the winners who not only had her video chosen but amy kawasaki is an intern specializing in helping the agentscy. >> tell me how your family got involved with the agency. >> it all started about four years ago when we adopted a dog named jersey from the humane society. ever since then, my family and i, specially me, has loved going to the peninsula humane society, whether it is adopting an animal or just going to visit. >> how many animals have you adopted? quite a few. it didn't stop with one, right? >> right. >> give me an idea of your interest in videos. how did you get interested in doing that? >> a man named scott delucci had

first asked me to make a video on rabbits i used my rabbits to make a video. when i was done, i sent that video to scott. i'm pretty sure he liked it more than what he was expecting. he asked me to do more videos. because i'm a huge animal lover, i had to say yes. >> it was a combination of two different interests? >> yes. >> here is one of your videos now. let's take a look at it. this is the peninsula humane society in spca. come and join us for a wonderful adventure we are about to have. there are many floors you can visit here at the peninsula humane society. when you first walk in, something you may notice is a gift shot for you and your pet. let's head to the dog adoptions. here the peninsula humane society, the dogs stay in very comfortable rooms with toys and furniture. this is the dog park for the dogs to run around and play. small animal wellness and

adoption center. this is the reptile room. the humane society is more than just cats and dogs. come on. let's head to the rabbit and guinea pig room. the spca makes sure all the animals are comfortable and happy. this is the bird room. ofield's kitten nursery. oh, they are so cute. wildlife wellness center. wow, they are feeding an owl. >> you have very nice, clear delivery. have you gotten to the point that you like hearing your voice? >> yeah. >> how did you decide how to put the video together and what inspired how you did it? >> i have always been interested in making montages, specially while going on vacations. i would take pictures or video and put them into a long movie

using an app called imovie. that's how i decided tore knew what i was going to do with the humane society. i did the same thing that i did or liked doing whether going on vacation but instead using animals with it. >> when my son was a teenager, he also does a lot of videos. it is the way young people like to see their messages these days? >> yes. >> what about the messages in your videos. what are you bottom line trying to get across to people? >> i want to make sure that people know how much animals mean to other people. and what they need to know on how animals are important to most people' lives. they are very important. sometimes people don't really think about how much animals are a part of other people's lives. other people treat them differently. so the message i want to set out is to think about animals more than just knowing that you have a pet and you are having it because you like them but also

you have to take care of them and love them a lot more than what many people may think. >> that's right. are you getting a lot of feedback on the videos? >> yeah. >> what are people telling you? >> it is great. they don't know any other 13-year-old that's making movies like this. >> what about your dad and your family, do they like the career choice you are going here sf. >> yeah, i guess. >> tell me something. the last question i wanted to get from you, which is, how do you want to expand maybe your role there as well as what you're doing creatively? >> well, i'll be making more movies for the peninsula human society. what i want to do is seek out more messages to tell people who see these videos that i make on how much i spend, on how much time i spend on doing these videos. >> they are good messages and you are a good messenger. >> thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> the event is the peninsula

human society clear the shelters, saturday, august 15th, from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at 1450 rollins road in burlingame. you can get more information on our website. we move on to another agency doing what it can to clear the shelters. we talk with humane society, silicon valley, next. looking for one of these? yoplait. smooth, creamy, and craved by the whole family.

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together, we're building a better california. i have had the pleasure of doing many stories with humane society silicon valley, even when it was back in santa clara valley. for over 80 years, it has stayed the course of its mission to stay and enhance lives, four-legged and two-legged ones. it's vision is through compassion and collaboration. wants to build a community in silicon valley where every pet has a home. joining me, dr. christie camia, chief of shelter medicine at

humane society, silicon valley and bernadette cruz, director of marketing. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> we can't avoid this. let's talk about these dogs here as well as the stories behind them. this is hayward and fremont. they are two puppies in our foster program. they were abandoned when they were about 1 1/2 old. there is a total litter of five. is they were abandoned at a b.a.r.t. station. it wasn't our shelter. we actually transferred them in from another shelter that didn't have the resources to take care of them. because they were orphaned at such a young age, they were put through our foster care program and bottle fed and they are about seven weeks old now. >> you would like to think that these circumstances are kind of unusual. they are probably not. >> it happens. it happens. we have a pretty robust foster program to do just that, taking care of the underage or the ill

and injured. our families take the puppies home or the kittens home. we have quite a bit of kittens. the families take care of the animals until they are old enough or well enough for adoption. then, they go through our adoption program. >> what kind of state of mind do animals go through had they go through something like that? >> it is pretty stressful, stressful being lost. as much as we try in a shelter setting to keep them comfortable and provide the best care, it is not going to be anywhere as close as being hope. being able to send them to a foster care home, they get ta real life experience of growing up in a home and that also makes for awesome adoption. >> give us an idea in terms of i know that probably the basic mission has always been the same. how much has the organization grown and how much has the demand grown for your services? >> a lot of what we do. we are a safety net in the

community. in addition to caring for homeless animals that come in through strays or that owners have to relen quish. many of our animals come through transfers from other shelters. we have a network of partner shelters within santa clara counsel county and in the surrounding counties. we will transfer them and put them through our programs to get them adopted. >> that's actually a change i have seen over the years or the decades where there used to be a lot more autonomy by all the different agencies. >> now, it is much more of a network. >> there is much more collaboration and working together, cooperation. >> kind of needs to be? >> it needs to be, yes. it is a collective effort with everyone. >> give us an idea in terms of clearing the shelters and what you are doing about that? >> we have our cleared the shelters event that is happening saturday, august 15th. all of our animals will be up

for adoption for free. we have cats and dogs and rabbits at our main shelters. we also have neighborhood adoption centers that will also have kittens, some dogs and some pocket pets, such as hamsters and guinea pigs. >> what about those kind of animals that people don't think about too much, when they think of animals, specially ones that might be in need of a home. what kind of animals are those? are you starting to have a problem with the population of those? >> in addition to the cats and dogs, we do have quite a large rabbit population. believe it or not, we do get in your stray rabbits. we put them through the program same as the dogs and cats. they get the veterinary carry they need and if they need a foster home to recuperate, we will do that. they are adopted, spayed and neutered just like the cats and dogs. are you offering different ways to motivate people in terms of cutting costs and fees?

>> we, as much as possible, would love to keep animals in the home and prevent them from coming into the shelter in the first place. that is our best case scenario. so we do offer some programs to help with that. we have the chihuahua project, which is a program that offers free spray and neuter surgeries and free vaccines to chihuahuas a and chihuahuas in five zip codes in san jose. chihuahuas and chihuahua mixes are probably the highest number of intake in the area. >> we are promoting this program but you do need this type of program. it is really a year-around program that you can face. there have to be times you can push it to the public and get them to think about it. this is one of those times, right? >> we do offer walk-in vaccine

clinics and spay and neuter surgeries at a low cost. we perform surgery six days a week by appointment. a two-hour project. candidates. that's also by appointment or walk-ins. we provide low cost, spay and neuter for dogs, cats, rabbits and vaccines. >> they will be up for adoption. >> the humane society silicon valley is holding its adoption marathon saturday, august 15th from 10:00 to 4:00 at 901 ames avenue in milpitas. we have a little bit more about the clear the shelters program later on. next, a look at one of my favorite groups in the valley, the chi am circle. a group that was started by women and keeps growing and helping the community. they are up next. hey foster farms!

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welcome back. i recently had the honor and pleasure to be one of those at the 50th anniversary celebration at chi am circle. with me right now is the bashful jerry wong who is a co-founder of chi am circle and a past president as well as a driving force behind the group's efforts to help the community. also, with us is teddy sue. she is the current co-president of chi am circle, who is also very involved in numerous other community groups and projects. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having us. >> jerry, give me an idea here first of all how chi am circle got started? we have talked about it before. it is such a fascinated story. how did it first get started and why? >> i think a lot of us were new

wives that came into the community with our engineer husbands. we wanted to preserve some of our heritage with our children and we were lonely in a new community. >> what did you talk about? >> we were talking about how we were so happy to get away from our children and husbands. we thought we would like to start making crafts and such. we had to have an excuse to get out. we wanted to assimilate into the community and have our children. we started a chinese language school, that was one of our goals, as well as a teen club as the children got older. we had a teen club. >> when you first got together and it was a social club of a limited number of people, how soon before you started to see the potential in terms of the growth, where it could go, how much more you could do beyond just your immediate needs? >> it was amazing. there were only ten of us women that started it. then, the next meeting, we said,

bring a friend. pretty soon, everybody brought a friend. within the first year, we had 80 members. then werks could see there was a diversity of interests and backgrounds and so i think that's about the point we thought this community is really growing. our children are in the schools now. how can we get involved? possibly that's about the time we wanteded to do some outgrowth. >> looking out for the next generation kind of helped form your goals too? >> right. >> you are the current co-president. >> with sylvia ing, yes. >> how long ago did you join? >> seven or eight years ago. i can't remember exactly. i got involved immediately. that's the way to do it when you join an organization. fortunately, they offered a lot of opportunities for new members to just jump in there and

participate. >> it is kind of interesting, after all these years, the reason why people joined and what they do whether they do join hasn't changed much, has it? >> no, it hasn't. our growth is remarkable. we have new members coming in awe the time. we are very fortunate to be able to programs and activity that interest the older generation and the newer people coming in. what are some of those programs? >> in june, we had a roux he lay for life. we were able to raise money for the silicon valley cancer organization. we recently had a tour of the golden gate bridge and actually walked across the bridge. some of us were wondering if we would ever make it but we did, all of us. it was fun. next month, in september, we are going to have our 50th

celebration. just fact that we have been here for 50 years is testament to the wonderful organization that jerry and her co-founders had started. >> we had a great time showing some pictures. mike inouye and twi vu were there. when you were watching the event going on, what was going through your mind in terms of how big the organization has gotten to be able to put on that kind of event? >> it was one of those things that we had so many different friends and different generations that came out to support us. we had 900 people come. we had former honorees that we had honored like christie amagucci. it was a great feeling to know

we were part of the community. we come from different backgrounds. some are immigrants. some are fourth generation, like myself. we are not a chinese organization but an asian-american organization. >> what about the next 50 years, what do you want to do? >> this club is going to grow and be one of the major, major organizations of this community, because our community has changed a lot. we are going to try to bridge all the different generations that have come. >> you have done that with a number of the different asian groups and with the generations. you are on your way. thank you very much for doing it. >> thank you both for being here. appreciate it. >> thank you for having us. >> 50 years of service. coming up, some more events in the bay area for clear the shelters and are showing the cantabella children's chorus. stay with us.

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from the cantabella children's chorus, there are a number of clear the shelters events coming up. these are just a few. all together, there are about 40 sites. you can get that information on the nbc bay area website. nbcbayarea.com. on august 15th, nbc bay area and the berkeley humane societies clear the shelters block, going on august 15th, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. you can share your photos and use hashtag, clear the shelters. the family friendly block will feature as many as 20 pet adoption organizations. join laura garcia cannon, sam brock. they will be out there to help. on august 14th, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., san francisco's spca rescue row on alabama. taking place at 201 alabama street. we hope to see you out there to support the cause.

we close out our show with the cantabella children's chorus. please check out asia pacific america with robert handa on facebook and twitter. we would love your feedback. please join us next week and every week here. thanks for watching. enjoy the performance by the cantabella children's chorus. ♪

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