The Charity Reuniting Syrian Refugees with the Pets They Had to Leave Behind
(WorldNews Netherlands)

This article originally appeared on VICE Netherlands. “Kyra! Kyra!” someone calls from an apartment in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The building’s hallways are carpeted and there’s a walker outside nearly every door as I make my way upstairs. “Hi,” says Hiba, 29, holding her black-and-white cat. She shares the apartment with her parents and her two pets – Kyra and Tabloesj. Hiba and her family fled from Damascus, Syria’s capital, in 2016. By that time, the civil war had already claimed 400,000 lives. To get to the Netherlands, she had to leave her pets behind – Kyra with friends and Tabloesj at a shelter. “I cried every...