Little Amal in Britain: giant puppet of Syrian refugee reaches Folkestone – video

The elephantine puppet representing a nine-year-old Syrian miss has reached the UK, making her archetypal halt successful Folkestone, Kent, aft walking thousands of miles crossed Europe.

Choirs sang and children greeted Little Amal connected the formation connected Tuesday. She had made the aforesaid cross-Channel travel taken truthful acold this twelvemonth by more than 17,000 people seeking refuge from conflict, hunger and persecution.

On the past limb of her journey, Little Amal volition sojourn Canterbury, London, Oxford, Coventry, Birmingham, Sheffield and Barnsley earlier the bonzer and analyzable 14-week travelling thoroughfare theatre accumulation ends successful Manchester connected 3 November

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