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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Giant puppet Little Amal to meet Ukrainian refugee children in Poland

Little Amal outside the Ukrainian embassy in London in March.
Little Amal outside the Ukrainian embassy in London in March. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

After last year’s 5,000-mile journey across Europe to draw attention to the plight of refugees, Little Amal, a giant puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian girl, has travelled to Poland to meet children who have fled the war in Ukraine.

Amal became an international symbol of displacement and loss – but also of compassion and generosity – when, with a team of puppeteers and support workers, she walked from Gaziantep near the Turkish-Syrian border to Manchester between July and October.

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