Boy, 6, Writes To Obama: Let Me Adopt Omran

    • Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar | TNN & Agencies
    • Publish Date: Sep 23 2016 9:50AM
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    • Updated Date: Sep 23 2016 9:53AM
Boy, 6, Writes To Obama: Let Me Adopt Omran
This photo of Omran (left) spread like a wild fire on the internet last month

Six-­year-­old Alex, who has asked US President Obama to help his family adopt Omran, a young refugee from the Syria

NEW DELHI: There aren't too many children who can say US President Barack Obama read a letter they wrote to him. But six­year old New Yorker Alex can tell all his friends that Obama not only read his letter about a Syrian refugee, but
also hailed it the spirit it embodied as exemplary.
Alex wrote to President Obama about Omran, a little Syrian boy who was photographed last month covered in dust and blood after an airstrike in Aleppo, the epicentre of the Syrian Civil War. The photograph quickly came to symbolise the confict that has ravaged Syria for more than half a decade, in much the same way that a photograph of a young boy, Aylan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach became a symbol of the European refugee crisis in 2015. 
Alex's request was simple. He asked Obama if he could "please go get him (Omran) and bring him to our home."
"We'll give him a family and he will be our brother," he pledged. He said he'd introduce Omran to Omar, one of his Syrian friends from school. "We can all play together. We can attend birthday parties, and he (Omran) will teach us another
language," he wrote.
Alex also promised that he and his sister Catherine would share their toys with Omran, and that he'd teach his new brother "addition and subtraction."

President Obama lavished praise on Alex at the Leaders Summit on Refugees in New York. "The humanity that a young child can display, who hasn't learned to be cynical, or suspicious, or fearful of other people because of where they're
from, or how they look, or how they pray. We can all learn from Alex," he said.
 
You can watch Alex read out his letter to Barack Obama ­ as well as Obama's response here.
 
 


If you have to write an open letter to a politician, who would that be? And what would be the issues on which you would want to write about? 

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Vishnu Varthan J Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

I would like ask the PM to change the education system in India.

Bhavana Jaison Atomic Energy Central School No 2

Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal , the Chief Minister of Delhi . Both are very transparent, trust able, and straight forward in their Government dealings and I have full faith that if any one writes an open letter they will find time to read and do the need full.

Vaishnavi S NAGARJUNA VIDYANIKETAN

I would like to write a letter to the PM asking him to provide better facilities to the soldiers who guard our country day and night.

Harini MS NAGARJUNA VIDYANIKETAN

My letter would be to Late APJ Abdul Kalam. Although he''s no more, that will be my everlasting dream. I''d ask him to come give a guest lecture at my school, and try to incorporate the many ideas we have into making a better India.

Vandana Subash City International School Wanowrie

A similar incident had happened in India when a poor 8-year old girl in Maharashtra requested our PM to give her money for a surgery as she was suffering from cancer.Narendra Modi ji immediately sent her some lakhs of money.

Kashish Verma Bharti Public School Swasthya Vihar

If I had a chance to write a letter to a politician, it would definitely be our PM demanding him to do something against those murderers who kill a child''s childhood and future and pudh them into the cruel act of child labour and use them for their illegal deeds. I would also ask him to open free schools for such children who are orphan, homeless or not well to do.

R.Rithika Reddy JOHNSON GRAMMAR HIGH SCHOOL, ICSE

I would also like to ask our CM , KCR sir about river extensions in the state

Shruti Kraleti SILVER OAKS,Bachupally

If I could, infact I want to, write a letter to PM Nawaz Sharif asking him what Pakistan is achieving by sponsoring terrorism. Also what Pakistan thinks it will achieve by owning Kashmir? What did it gain from its several attacks on India? Does Pakistan believe in peace?

Mansi Borade PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

according to me i think that by adopting children we can get good blessings from and only by keeping that child happy and fulfilling their wishes.

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