A 10-year-old Syrian girl stepped off a boat in Boston Harbor on September 7th—a beacon of hope encountering a new land. Her name is Amal, and she was without parents, a stranger in a strange place, displaced from her home and everything she knew. But Little Amal was not alone; observing closely, she was surrounded

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Little Amal represents millions of displaced refugee children separated from their families. Source: Giant puppet tours England to mark World Refugee Week | Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter

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“We asked ourselves — if we could move 1,200 trees through a city center for over 100 days, then imagine what else we could do,” said Bruno Doedens, a Dutch landscape architect an… Source: A Moveable Forest in the Netherlands – THE DIRT

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