SKUKUZA – When Hylke Walters and her partner Sander Leenstra from Caleppe aan den Ijssell, close to Rotterdam in the Netherlands rented a car from Hertz at the branch in Oliver Tambo Airport for their vacation in the Lowveld, especially the Kruger National Park, she found a pink teddy bear in the back of the car.

She made the teddy an onlooker on their whole trip, with the view of putting the video online to find the little owner. The video went viral and the lost teddy now has his own facebook page (Where is my mommy) with almost 200 friends and is a celebrity on Dutch telvision after he was featured on various news programs like Hart van Nederland channel.

The car rental company has sent e-mails and made phone calls countrywide to customers who rented the car before Walters and Leenstra.

Margie Haworth, marketing consultant of Hertz, said to Lowvelder that it might take a while because the teddy was “firmly wedged between the seats and might not have been visible for ages.”

Walters said to Lowvelder today that “teddy is making friends allover the Netherlands and now has friends from all over the world interested in the KNP as well.”

Walters decided after finding the teddy i nthe car to give it the best vacation ever with the hope that her video with teddy in the Kuger goes viral.

“We need all the help we can get. Somewhere out there is a little girl crying for her bear. It is our mission to reunite the two.”

Hylke said that the help of Lowvelder‘s onliners “was fantastic.”

“I am so sad for the little girl. In our younger years we all always had one beloved teddy. Everybody can relate to the heartache it gives when you suddenly lose it. I want her to find it back because the bear was obviously loved intensely since it looks very used and very much hugged,” said Hylke.

She is a former school teacher who now devotes her life to training dogs. She loves dogs, but at present is the owner of only one.

Hylke is prepared to courier the teddy anywhere in the world to reunite the bear with her rightful owner. She asked anyone who can help to contact her hylke77@gmail.com or on Facebook Hylke Walters.

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