Artist Upcycles Waste to Shelter Stray Cats

This artist creates shelters out of recycled tires for stray cats in Cairo.
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Ibrahim Abougendy is an artist in Cairo, Egypt who has created a prototype of a cat shelter made out of used tires. Tires are insulated and hold heat well, and he adds other recycled materials like wood to create the ‘sheltires.’ The mobile units can hold 5 cats each and can be put in the streets or outside houses. Abougendy says that because of climate change, snowfall and heavy rain have affected Egypt, which makes sheltering the stray animals that much more important. Abougendy is working with Petman, an e-commerce store for pets. You can donate to put more sheltires on Cairo streets here: https://go.nowth.is/petman.

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