A Safe Haven For Rescued Animals

As a child in Tangier, Morocco, in the late 1970s, Salima Kadaoui made it her mission to save strays from animal control. The eight year old volunteered at an animal charity and witnessed how the city’s lack of vaccination, neutering and spaying programmes made the situation worse. “I promised myself that I would change my country and that promise stayed with me.”

In 2012, after raising her family in the UK, she returned to Morocco and made good on her childhood vow, founding the Sanctuaire de la faune de Tanger. It is now home to more than 450 dogs, 100 cats, 48 donkeys, two wild boars, an ape, two storks and a mule, along with smaller creatures. Kadaoui believes her work has helped people sympathise with animals.