The world was horrified by images of a wounded Syrian child sitting dazed and bloodied in an ambulance after an airstrike in Aleppo last month, and now a 6-year-old from NY is offering the boy a home.
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When images of a stunned and bloodied 5-year-old boy being loaded into an ambulance in Aleppo, Syria, were carried by news networks across the world in August, a 6-year-old boy named Alex was watching.
On social media, many users applauded the president’s approach – but reserved most of their praise for young Alex.
The video has been shared more than 60,000 times on Facebook.
The boy, identified as Alex, wrote a letter to President Barack Obama, asking him to bring the Syrian boy to his house.
Obama first read portions of Alex’s letter at the Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis, which he hosted at the United Nations on Tuesday.
The distressing picture of a dust-enveloped Omran went global in August thanks to the Aleppo Media Centre – and now Alex, from Scarsdale in NY, has offered a helping hand, from one little boy to another.
“Can you please go get him and bring him to our home … we’ll be waiting for you guys with flags flowers and balloons”. He would introduce him to his friends.
“We should all be more like Alex”, Obama said. “We can all play together”. Imagine what the world would look like if we were.
“We will give him a family and he will be our brother”, Alex said. Catherine, my little sister, will be collecting butterflies and fireflies for him. Since he won’t bring toys and doesn’t have toys Catherine will share her big blue stripy white bunny. Continuing with Alex’s words, he says: “I will teach him additions and subtractions [in maths]”. And he [can] smell Catherine’s lip gloss penguin which is green.
Alex doesn’t want him to suffer-he wants to help him give him the opportunity to live a better life. “A six-year-old who has more humanity, love and understanding than most adults”, wrote Amanda Keller.
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Another commentator on Facebook, Syed Mahmood Kazmi wrote: “Incredibly powerful!”
