Isn't this a scam?

You are right to wonder this. It is a fact that there are many scammers active. Scams involving the adoption or sale of animals certainly exist.

When I – the writer of this text (Walter Vermeir) – considered adopting my cats through Safe Haven Egypt, I wondered this too.

SHE lives on Facebook. That is the place to look for evidence that SHE is legitimate or not.

This is the private one Facebook group of Safe Haven Egypt. Sign up for that group.

That group has 6500 members. Check out the posts. They are very numerous with interaction from many people. Multiple posts per day. And goes back years.

This is one of the very first posts in that Facebook group, done by Kareema Ibraheem (Koky), the manager of Safe Haven Egypt. She was already busy adopting cats internationally in 2015.

The video below is from 2018.

Check out some profiles of random people in the group 'Safe Haven Egypt' (SHE)'.

Active and passive. You will see that these are real accounts.

There are very diverse reports there about everything related to cats.

Of new incoming cats. Messages about raffles. Messages about cats that are leaving for their adopters. Messages from those adopters about cats that have arrived.

There are also messages from people who previously adopted a SHE cat, members of that FB group, who visited Safe Haven Egypt and share their experiences and photos.

There is also a special private Facebook group for people who adopted SHE cats; Where are they Meow?

That group currently has 852 members. Not everyone who adopted a SHE cat is in that group. As soon as you have been assigned a cat, after the positive 'home check', you can ask to be admitted to that group.

Anyone who searches Twitter or Facebook will mainly find messages from this project about the cats for adoption.

And speaking of this project; 'Friends of Safe Haven Egypt'.

This project has existed since January 27, 2023 this website since the beginning of February 2023. It is deliberately designed to be as identifiable as possible, via a personal domain name. There is also a page with adopter reviews of people adopting a cat at Safe Haven Egypt through this promotional project.

The value of 'reviews' also has its limitations. Here too, I can only recommend that you investigate it yourself. Go to the version of those reviews on Facebook here.

Check out the profiles of the people who left the review and make sure it's a real profile.

If something is a scam, they want to get money from you. Adopting a cat at Safe Haven Egypt costs £210 with optional FIV/FeLV testing. That's a €250 / $260 – All Inclusive.

That's all there is to pay.

If this were a scam, then this promotional project, the very active SHE Facebook group and community (which would have to be fictitious), the extensive contacts with the candidate and extensive video conversation during the adoption procedure… would be a lot of work for that amount of money..

Under this section you can find a list of posts on the internet that mention Safe Haven Egypt. As you can see there are also some YouTube videos in there.

I hope that from what you can find here you can decide for yourself that Safe Have Egypt is legit.

Questions? Just ask.

Walter Vermeir

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List of posts and videos mentioning Safe Haven Egypt

Below are links to Safe Haven Egypt's private Facebook group. – Addition when new links are found.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9vjxCOG3c – Video from above about adopting SHE cat Cleo. Recommended. – Message in SHE FB group about this cat (SHE cat's name is Megan) – Post in SHE FB group posted by Kareema Ibrahim about various adoptions, including Megan (now Cleo) by Emma.
• https://www.facebook.com/LeonaEgyptianPrincess – FB page created by the SHE adopter about the cat Leona. In this post, adopter Candi talks about adopting her cat from SHE. – And this post in the SHE Facebook group by Kareema Ibraheem is about this cat and her adoption.
• https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6041060/scots-couple-cat-4000-miles-egypt-paint/ (and also here) – Newspaper article about adopting a SHE cat
• https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554180282064 – Page about adopted cats from SHE. – The performance post. – Message from adopter Karin & cat Bluebell in the SHE FB group about the adoption. – Review from Karin on FB of this project.
• https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3724936084196259 Video post from Nails & Tales Nagelstyling Zaventem about opening a donation jar in favor of SHE

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMnj69A1NE – Video (above) about Kamel, adopted SHE cat to the UK. – Post in the SHE FB group about Kamel with reference to adopter Kerry
• https://meow.af/meet-the-resilient-three-legged-cat-who-survived-a-senseless-attack-and-found-the-perfect-forever-home/ – Article about the same cat Kamel who comes from Safe Haven Egypt
• https://travelab.agency/safe-haven-egypt – Organizer of guided trips to Egypt, the Middle East and Greece. They have a page to promote SHE, encourage people to adopt from SHE and consider being a 'flight parent'. And they also donate part of their profits on a booked trip to SHE.
• Instagram profile of a SHE cat whose owner posts a lot of photos of that cat. – 'Apollo The Baguette'. – Link to specific message in which the owner writes that the cat comes from Safe Haven Egypt
• Message in the private SHE Facebook page from an adopter of the SHE cat Cinnamon

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