What do you want to be when you grow up? It's the question you ask children when they begin to make decisions in their life. When they reach adolescence, they start the path that best suits them; have a family, go to college, be famous, have fashion clothes, money or just travel thousands of kilometers in a late model car.
And what happens when you get everything you want and are traveling in your latest model car? continue in the comfort of your car ?, would be ideal for many people? But it was not the case of Gökçer Korkmaz, a Turkish model who at 22 decided to leave his life behind to go live with 500 unprotected dogs.
Everything happened in 2006 when he was traveling with his parents through Babaeski village and he noticed that there were few people, but many homeless dogs, malnourished and hurt, eating what they could in a large dump, asking that suffering was not eternal.
For this young model it was inevitable that he did not cry, since then he knew that his life would take another course. That is why at 22 years old he decided to abandon modeling to devote his life to the helpless animals.
A surprising decision
The young man communicated the decision to his parents: he would leave everything to move to that small town to help the abandoned animals.
He sold all his possessions: a motorcycle, his electric guitar and each of the precious things he had.
He said goodbye to everything he loved
They came to think that this feeling would be temporary, but it was not like that.
They thought that it would only be a stage that would last a few weeks, it is more than 10 years old
He built a paradise for helpless animals.
He bought a piece of land and opened a shelter that currently houses 500 animals among dogs, cats and even sheep. Fortunately Gokcer is not alone, he has a dozen volunteers who help him in the shelter, which is also built with recycled materials and discarded wood, which is used for the buckets. No one cuts down a tree or uses elements that harm the environment.
The suffering of the animals during the cold winter and the agony of living without water during the summer ends in the shelter.
Unfortunately, the goods that exmodelo had disappeared, but the solidarity of the people never ends, and some make donations for Korkmaz to continue doing this noble work.