(18 Jul 2025)
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Bogota, Colombia - 17 July 2025
1. Various of students at a public school with dogs rescued from abuse
2. Teacher Murcia with students outside the shelter
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andrea Murcia, Four-Legged Friends program:
"Well, we started secretly because this is a public entity, a school, so we fed those who arrived (at the shelter), but nevertheless, here inside, they sneaked in with their suitcases."
4. Various of dogs in cages at the shelter inside the school being cared for by students who volunteer their time
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francisco Paz, Four-Legged Friends program:
"The children's approach to the dogs and the dogs' approach to the children is something I loved because I saw a two-way education, and more than education, a recovery, and that's because we bring the dogs to recover them, and the children, more than recovering them, are educating them, and the children are educated and re-educated day by day through their work with the animals."
6. Various of Professor Paz teaching yoga to students with their dogs in a tent set up inside the school
7. Maria Alejandra petting a dog inside a cage at the shelter
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Alejandra Molano, school student:
"I changed. I've improved significantly in my teamwork. I was a person who didn't like to approach people. I preferred to keep quiet about many things. The project taught me how animals protect us from many things and how their positive energy and our energy change them and us."
9. Various of school teacher caring for a cat
10. Various aerials of students and teachers training dogs on the school basketball court ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
A school in Colombia’s capital has become an unlikely refuge for dozens of rescued dogs, offering them not only a second chance at life, but a home filled with affection.
At the Delia Zapata Olivella School in northeastern Bogotá, the program “Four-Legged Friends” has been operating for several years.
Since its inception, it has rescued and rehomed more than 580 dogs, many of them victims of abuse and neglect.
Each morning, the dogs eagerly await the arrival of the students, who hug and care for them as part of their daily routine.
Inside a tent set up on school grounds, children learn the basics of dog training, practice yoga alongside the animals, and offer them the love they were once denied.
The school’s animal shelter, which has received recognition from Bogotá’s City Hall, has been described as a pioneering effort in the development of an “animal rights classroom.”
The project began with a single dog rescued from the streets by students and a supportive teacher.
The animal, later named Mickey, refused to eat.
When taken to a vet, it was discovered that his snout had been sealed shut with an industrial stapler.
After three surgeries, Mickey survived—and became the first official rescue of the initiative.
From that moment on, students, teachers, an... [truncated]
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