All over the world every day there are dogs that need new homes. For those dogs that don’t have a place to call home, forced to live on the streets, they need it the most. Hope for Paws is a nonprofit animal rescue based out of Los Angeles, California, and their mission is to rescue dogs in need of help and find them loving forever homes. They recently received a call from the Costa Rica Dog Rescue to fly down for one week and volunteer their time with the organization. They accepted the offer, thus beginning a truly incredible experience that they wouldn’t soon forget.

Rescue after rescue, the Hope for Paws team embarked on an amazing journey with the Costa Rica Dog Rescue, documenting their saves as they did them. Watch this touching video below of dogs that transform so quickly with a little bit of encouragement and a whole lot of love: