A six-year-old boy from New York has won the respect of US President Barack Obama and thousands of others after he offered to take in Omran Daqneesh, a little boy who was injured after his home in Aleppo, Syria, was bombed.
he image of five-year-old Omran sat alone in an ambulance, covered in dust and blood, shocked the world and inspired six-year-old Alex, from Scarsdale, New York, to take action.
In a handwritten letter sent to the White House, Alex asked Obama to go and collect Omran and bring him to his house where “we will be waiting for you guys with flags, flowers, and balloons.”
Alex offered to help Omar in many ways including adopting him, donating his bicycle and helping him learn another language.
Read the six year old boy letter
The boy also noted that he has a Syria friend whom he can introduce him to back in school.
“Catherine, my little sister, will be collecting butterflies and fireflies for him. In my school, I have a friend from Syria, Omar.
I will introduce him to Omar, and we can all play together. We can invite him to birthday parties and he will teach us another language.
Since he wont bring toys and doesnt have toys, Catherine will share her big blue stripy white bunny. And I will share my bike and I will teach him how to ride it. I will teach him addition and subtraction,” says Alex.
President of The United States of America Message
In his message, Obama asked people to read the letter to “understand why he had decided to share it with the world.”
“Alex is just six years old. He lives in Scarsdale, New York. Last month, like people around the world, he was moved by the heartbreaking images of Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old boy in Aleppo, Syria, sitting in an ambulance, in shock as he tried to wipe the blood from his hands.
So Alex sat down and wrote me a letter. This week at a United Nations summit on refugees, I shared Alex’s moving words with the world.
Alex told me that he wanted Omran to come live with him and his family. He wanted to share his bike, and teach him how to ride. He said his little sister would collect butterflies for him. “We can all play together,” he wrote. “We will give him a family and he will be our brother.”
Those are the words of a six-year-old boy — a young child who has not learned to be cynical or suspicious or fearful of other people because of where they come from, how they look, or how they pray.
We should all be more like Alex. Imagine what the world would look like if we were. Imagine the suffering we could ease and the lives we could save.
Listen to Alex, read his letter, and I think you’ll understand why I shared it with the world,” Obama wrote on his Facebook page.