Our Soidog20years Timeline Continues. Its 2004. Ha..

Our #SoiDog20Years timeline continues.

It’s 2004. Having returned to be with John at home for Christmas, Gill is coming to terms with the life-changing circumstances of losing both her lower legs. One cannot imagine what was going through her mind at that stage. But being the determined individual she was, she would get through it come what may. That was Gill. She wouldn’t let anything get in the way of the mission to save the dogs and cats of Asia.

What happened next was the stuff of nightmares. It is Boxing Day, December 26th 2004, 07:59am local time. Without warning, the largest climatic event this century hits the region: the infamous 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami devastates large swathes of the island, not to mention causing deadly impact throughout the sub-continent and Southeast Asia.

The Dalleys themselves are safe, but thousands of lives are lost, including Gill’s closest friend and Soi Dog volunteer Leone Cosens, pictured here. It became the most unimaginable end to what had until that point been a successful first full year of operation for Soi Dog.

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Established in 2003 in Phuket, Thailand, Soi Dog is Southeast Asia's largest organisation helping stray animals. The Gill Dalley sanctuary in Phuket is home to over 1,600 animals. Soi Dog also has a treatment facility in Bangkok and responds to crisis situations throughout Thailand. The organisation is dedicated to implementing effective, sustainable solutions that reduce the suffering of dogs and cats in Asia, runs entirely on donations and works efficiently so all donations are used to help animals as effectively as possible.

The foundation is a registered not-for-profit organisation in Thailand, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, France and Holland. It has a maximum 4-star rating with Charity Navigator, the largest and most-utilised independent non-profit evaluator in the United States, a platinum seal of transparency from Candid, the world’s largest source of non-profit information, a Top Rated award from Greatnonprofits and the Travelers’ Choice award from Tripadvisor.

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