“Stand For Strays” Ensures Homeless Dogs In Thailand Have Shelter In Extreme Weather. – InspireMore

Shelter is one of those things that we take for granted until we don’t have it.

As mind-boggling as it might seem to some people, the streets of Thailand are packed with thousands of homeless dogs. However, a group of volunteers is trying to change this.

A project called Stand for Strays is aiming to fight the ever-growing canine population issue in Thailand.

A doctorate student named Ajarn Yossaphon Chanthongjeen noticed the dogs in Pak Kret, a suburb of Bangkok, had no shelter from the sweltering heat or driving rain. He worked with Stand for Strays to come up with a simple solution: Repurposing hard poster boards into basic shields from the elements.

These inexpensive billboards would have ended up in the trash, but now they’re being placed around cities with instructions on how passersby can help stray dogs use them for shelter. There are over 300 stray…