{"id":1594,"date":"2021-10-28T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T10:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2021-11-01T17:03:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:03:48","slug":"8000-km-journey-highlights-an-unlikely-changemakera-very-tall-refugee-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"Little Amal Takes A Long Walk To Raise Awareness About Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Amal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Amal.jpg 960w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Amal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Amal-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shining a light on the stories of millions of young refugees across Europe is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkwithamal.org\/about-us\/little-amal\/\">Little Amal<\/a>, a 3.5-metre tall puppet deemed to be one of the most innovative and adventurous public artworks ever attempted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The refugee puppet started her journey in July, travelling through Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, France and the UK, following the route that a child migrant from Syria might take. Her walk highlights the plight of millions of refugee children \u2013 many unaccompanied and separated from their families \u2013 who are forced to undertake harrowing journeys under life-threatening conditions. Unfortunately, the pandemic has made their situation even worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This travelling festival of art brings a powerful message of hope and raises awareness of displaced children worldwide. In every city, crowds (often in their hundreds) have welcomed Little Amal, including the Pope, keen to be a part of this momentous journey.&nbsp; As well as see how the puppet interacts, which registers all kinds of emotions such as happiness, anger and occasionally pain \u2013 all the feelings that a nine-year-old child-like Amal might experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amir Nizar, Artistic Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkwithamal.org\/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgdW69fed8AIViL7tCh2w5QKiEAAYASAAEgJCefD_BwE\"><em>The Walk<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp; says \u201cThe purpose of <em>The Walk<\/em> is to highlight the potential of the refugee, not just their dire circumstances. Little Amal is 3.5 metres tall because we want the world to grow big enough to greet her. We want her to inspire us to think big and to act bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Find out more about this extraordinary story and where she is on her journey at: www.walkwithamal.org<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shining a light on the stories of millions of young refugees across Europe is Little Amal, a 3.5-metre tall puppet deemed to be one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16,15],"tags":[459,460,461,463],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-children","category-installation","tag-little-amal","tag-puppet","tag-refugee","tag-the-walk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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