Migrant workers in Singapore have formed bonds with stray animals and take care of them with the help of animal welfare volunteers. They provide food and maintain the health of over 200 stray cats and dogs in an industrial area.
Every Saturday night, in a far-flung industrial corner of Singapore , a crew of volunteers brings food to the stray animals that shelter at factories in the area. As the feeders approach, cats and dogs emerge from the shadows and wait expectantly at the factory gates. The six core members of local animal welfare group The Stray Affairs have become a familiar sight. But the other six days of the week, it is migrant workers living and working in the area who keep the animals fed and healthy.
In this industrial fringe where migrant workers are thought to be merely transient, they have fostered unlikely bonds with the stray animals by becoming their caretakers. “They serve as our eyes and ears on the street,” said The Stray Affairs member Daryl Mah, 25
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