People Are Doing Everything To Reunite Refugee Cat With His Family
source: The Dodo, Feb. 10, 2016
A cat named Dias has been through more than many people have in a lifetime — and he's still waiting for his happy ending.
Dias survived the flight from Iraq to Europe during the refugee crisis, but he still needs help — and Ashley Anderson is determined to achieve the impossible.
Last fall, Anderson — an American now based in Switzerland — volunteered to spend months on the island of Lesvos pulling people from the waters of the Mediterranean as they arrived in record-breaking numbers from Syria and Iraq.
They had lost their homes, their countries. They risked their lives. They brought with them only what they could carry.
Greece is the main landing place for people trying to take refuge in Europe. In one little boat was a family fleeing Mosul, Iraq, a city now controlled by the militant extremist sect, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
With them was a little white cat."This family probably paid thousands to get a spot on this rubber boat — even infants required a fee," Anderson told The Dodo. "They cared enough about this cat to bring [him] with them."
Dias soon after he landed in Greece.
Volunteers, including Anderson, try to swim out to help people jumping off a sinking boat.
Read more: https://www.thedodo.com/refugee-cat-lost-family-1596361328.html
FB page for Dias the cat: https://www.facebook.com/reunitediasthecat/?fref=ts
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