Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee, will travel the US
New York, US AP Little Amal, a 3.7-metre tall puppet of a Syrian refugee, will journey across the United States this fall, visiting key places in America’s history to raise awareness about immigration and migration. The puppet of the 10-year-old girl will visit the US Capitol, Boston Common, Joshua Tree National Park and the Edmund Pettus Bridge among […]
From Gaziantep to Glasgow, Little Amal delivers seeds of hope to COP26
Glasgow, UK Reuters After walking thousands of miles across Europe, a giant puppet named Little Amal reached the Glasgow COP26 talks on Tuesday to raise awareness of the plight of refugee children on the front line of climate change. On Gender Day, the 3.5 metre tall Amal – a figure representing a young Syrian girl […]
Puppet makes cross-Europe trek to support child refugees
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters A 3.5 metre tall puppet depicting a Syrian refugee girl arrived in Geneva on Tuesday as part of an 8,000-kilometres walk across Europe to raise awareness of the plight of young refugees. “Little Amal” – which means ‘hope’ in Arabic – started her journey on 27th July in Gaziantep, Turkey, near the […]