Mexican Children Built Homes For Stray Dogs With Recycled Materials

Oct 15, 2019 by apost team

The 35 youngsters all attended an elementary school called the Zacatecas Educational Institute. Toward the end of the school year, the children decided they wanted to work on a project that would benefit their community.

After discussing the matter with their teacher, Professor Elnora Peña Sanchez, they realized that their community had a very common and unfortunate problem: lots of stray dogs. In fact, around 70 percent of the dogs in Mexico are strays.

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The children thus decided to build dog houses that would protect the homeless canines from bad weather. They also decided to use recyclable materials that they already at their homes in the hopes of promoting recycling. They used materials like wooden boards, cloth, plastic tubs, cardboard, and old sheets. They also painted and decorated the doghouses.

After finishing the twenty doghouses, the children donated them to a non-profit animal rescue organization called Albergues Lazos Caninos, which operates in the municipalities Calera, Enrique Estrada, Guadalupe, and Zacatecas.

The president of Albergues Lazos Caninos, Silvana Ortiz del Rio, said that four of the dog houses would be given to people with limited financial resources who had rescued puppies from the street. He also thanked the students for making the dog houses and their instructor for teaching her pupils empathy and love for animals.

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