José Valvenarque Bezerra sets his alarm for 4 in the morning. Every day. For 10 years.
While the state of Piauí, in Brazil, is still asleep, he is already preparing food and water for nearly 200 dogs and cats that have neither an owner nor a roof over their heads. He goes through the city point by point, with the support of some people who joined his cause, and he does not limit himself to leaving the food: he stops to look at each animal, checks whether it is limping, whether it has a wound, whether something in its body is asking for help.
When he finds one that is ill, he does not just pass it by. He seeks guidance, arranges treatment, and persists until he gets someone to care for it. Ten years of early mornings, asking nothing in return, sustained by the simple idea that no animal should have to go hungry on the streets.