No matter where you go, you're likely to find some serious and persistent problems within a local community. Although it's common for disenfranchisement from economic opportunities to be at the root of many of these problems, they can become complicated, ugly, and harmful to the world at large the more they're left to fester.
So when two communities can find a way to work together and address the issues affecting both of them, it's easy to imagine the passion that can come from that solution.
And in the case of a non-profit organization called VETPAW, those communities joined together despite being an ocean apart.