He couldn't work wood. He only knew that seeing dogs and cats sleeping in the rain and in the cold, without shelter, he seemed no longer acceptable.
Leomar Aparecido Miguel is a truck driver in Brazil, in São José do Rio Preto, in the State of San Paolo.
His project was born of a very simple observation: for abandoned animals, finding something to eat and drinking is fundamental, but not enough. When bad weather arrives, it also serves a dry place to take refuge.
Leomar was not a carpenter and had no experience in the construction of bunks.
So he learned.
It turned a ground into a small workshop and began to use free time to build wooden shelters for dogs and cats without home.
The project was named after Semeadores do Bem Pets.
The cots are not sold. They are mainly donated to independent volunteers, to organizations dealing with animals and to people who assist abandoned ones.
Part of the materials comes thanks to donations. When donations are not enough, Leomar and his wife also contribute personally to expenses.
But it is the growth of the initiative to tell how far a repeated gesture can arrive day after day.
At the beginning of 2025 235 shelters were built.
In July 2026 they were already more than 1,700.
Behind that number there is not only wood assembled.
There are hundreds of small shelters that, on rainy nights or on colder days, can make a difference to an animal that does not have a home.
Everything started with a truck driver who didn't own the tools of the craft.
He decided to learn how to use them because he had found a pretty important reason to do so.