Mission

HOWS Project was created in 2008 to address an overlooked need to help improve the lives and well-being of outside dogs in Charlottesville and surrounding counties in Virginia by building HOWS Project Dog Houses to improve the often legal but inadequate shelters outside dogs call "home".

HOWS volunteers distribute these HOWS houses along with other "essentials".
These include no-tip water buckets, stainless steel food bowls, sturdy nylon collars and walking leads, straw bedding, flea/tick preventative, dog food, treats, toys, hugs...and education for the animals' people regarding best practices for their 4-legged companions.