African drummers play as Little Amal delights crowds of onlookers as she walks through the city centre on 27th October 2020 in Coventry, United Kingdom. Little Amal is a metre-tall puppet and living artwork of a young Syrian refugee child who has spent the last 3 months walking 8000 km from the boarder of Syria across Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the UK to focus attention on the urgent needs of young refugees. Coventry, which has the largest Syrian resettlement programme in the region, and also a large population of asylum seekers, is the current city of
African drummers play as Little Amal delights crowds of onlookers as she walks through the city centre on 27th October 2020 in Coventry, United Kingdom. Little Amal is a metre-tall puppet and living artwork of a young Syrian refugee child who has spent the last 3 months walking 8000 km from the boarder of Syria across Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the UK to focus attention on the urgent needs of young refugees. Coventry, which has the largest Syrian resettlement programme in the region, and also a large population of asylum seekers, is the current city of culture, with a long history of welcoming people to the from all over the world. In recent years Coventry has welcomed people from Syria, Afghanistan and Iran as well as a number of European and African countries.
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