Animal rights activists in the Philippines are celebrating Valentine's Day by helping some stray dogs and cats find their forever homes.
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00:00Valentine's Day. A day to spend with that special someone. But for an animal rights
00:08group in the Philippines, it's also a day to make a special connection of a different
00:13kind. This is The First Date, an event organized by the Philippine Animal Welfare Society or
00:20PAWS in Manila.
00:22The First Date is, we started out in 2018, basically to raise awareness for the shelters,
00:31for the shelter and to raise funds, and then to introduce also our adoptable animals to
00:36market them and hopefully find them loving homes.
00:40The facility cares for 250 dogs and cats. Most of them are survivors of abuse or neglect,
00:48making The First Date an important opportunity to give these animals a happy and loving future.
00:55Participants help socialize the animals, and can even decide to permanently adopt them.
01:00It helps to heal their trauma, yung sa mga pinagnaanan nila, and it helps them to be
01:06more sociable sa mga susunod and sa mga potential families na pupuntahan nila, forever home.
01:12For pet lovers, we have so much love to give, and I think yung apaw or yung sobra from the
01:19cup that we have for the love and passion, the compassion that we have for pets, these
01:26pets na nandito sa PAWS deserve that, or needed that, and even more.
01:34Though the organization only cares for a tiny portion of the over 13 million stray dogs
01:39and cats in the country, it can still make a big difference to the lives of the animals
01:45who meet that special human at The First Date.
01:48Fu Hua Hong and Sani Chi for TawanPlus.