A 12-foot puppet on an international journey stopped in San Diego on Saturday. The puppet named Little Amal, meaning “hope” in Arabic, represents a…
One of the primary goals of bringing Amal to so many different cultures, places and environments is to bring awareness to the challenges refugees face, according to one of Amal's producersA 12-foot puppet on an international journey stopped in San Diego on Saturday. The puppet named Little Amal, meaning “hope” in Arabic, represents a 10-year-old girl who is a refugee from Syria.
Chauhan has been studying Amal in her UCSD dance class. She explained that she was speechless when she saw the puppet in person.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters. “Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium,” David Lan, one of Amal’s producers, told NBC 7. “And tomorrow, she will cross the border and spend three weeks traveling south through Mexico.”
Lan shared that one of the primary goals of bringing Amal to so many different cultures, places and environments is to bring awareness to the challenges refugees face.
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