(21 Feb 2025)
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Lima, Peru – 21 February 2025
1. Tourists taking pictures of stray cats in Kennedy Park in Miraflores, Lima
2. Cat lying on the roof of its house
3. Various of cats eating
4. Aliisa Hautala, tourist from Finland, with a cat
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aliisa Hautala, tourist from Finland:
"Very nice that this is possible here because I have never seen like a cat park like this, anywhere else in the world even in Finland."
6. Various of cats in the shade
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Viviana Meza, manager of human development of the Municipality of Miraflores:
"Today, we are here in the park (Kennedy), doing a cat fair, where everyone who comes has products for pets and what we are looking for is that these fairs allow us to cover food expenses for 250 kittens approximately, with dry food and wet food."
8. Various of cat fair entrance
9. Various of attendees at stalls
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dalia Varillas, volunteer of the Wanda Foundation:
"Unfortunately, many people still don’t have a conscience of not abandoning them. That’s why we have always a large amount or a recurrent population inside the park."
11. Various of cats up for adoption in crates at fair
STORYLINE:
Volunteers in Lima on Friday hosted a public ‘cat fair’ to fundraise for a pack of nearly 200 stray cats that reside in the central Kennedy Park.
The park in Miraflores was once a rodent safe haven. To end the infestation, a couple of cats were brought in.
A quarter of a century later, the story turned upside down.
Dalia Varillas, a volunteer of the Wanda Foundation, said people are still abandoning cats at the park, and despite efforts to give some of them into adoption, more are introduced constantly.
Tourist Aliisa Hautala, from Finland, said she had never seen a park like it.
The goal of Friday’s cat fair is to obtain funds to feed the cats for at least a month.
"Today, we are here in the park (Kennedy), doing a cat fair, where everyone who comes has products for pets and what we are looking for is that these fairs allow us to cover food expenses for 250 kittens approximately, with dry food and wet food," Viviana Meza, manager of human development of the Municipality of Miraflores, said.
The municipality of Miraflores has agreed to aid with some of the funds.
AP video shot by Mauricio Muñoz
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