Little Amal’s Appearance | ‘Good Chance Theater’ YouTube capture
The march of ‘Little Amal’, a 3.5-meter puppet that symbolizes a 9-year-old refugee girl, has recently attracted the attention of Europeans.
According to The Guardian on the 18th (local time), this doll, produced by the famous puppet theater ‘Handspring Company’ to inform the urgency of the relief of Syrian refugee children, started in Syria at the end of July and went through Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, etc. to the UK. We are working on a project to move 8000 km to the The movement path of the doll is taken from the path that real refugees pass. Amal means ‘hope’ in Arabic.
Little Amal, who is now said to have arrived in France, won the support of many Europeans during the march. When they visited a refugee camp in Gaziantep on the Turkish-Syrian border, refugee girls lit lamps to welcome them, and even met the Pope in Vatican City in Italy.
On the other hand, when passing through Larissa in central Greece, far-rights threw stones at dolls. In Athens, protests demanded that Little Amal’s route be changed, and the mayor of Calais, France, is said to have raised the issue of Little Amal’s existence. Little Amal Project producer Yolanda Markopoulu said: “It was interesting to see how they felt threatened even with dolls with the image of a 9-year-old child. .
Little Amal is now set to cross over to England. A choir will welcome Little Amal this summer in Fawkeston, England, where thousands of refugees arrived by boat. Little Amal will then visit St. Paul’s Cathedral (St. Paul’s Cathedral) and the Royal Opera House in London, and then finish the 8000km long journey from Manchester.
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