Bana Alabed, the seven-year-old girl whose tweets from Aleppo gave devastating insights into the Syrian war, has pleaded with new US President Donald Trump to "do something for the children in Syria" in an open letter
Bana amassed hundreds of thousands of followers for her messages from war-torn Aleppo sent with the help of her mother, Fatemah. The family was evacuated to Turkey in December during the mass evacuations, and is now living in Turkey.
"You must do something for the children of Syria because they are like your children and deserve peace like you," she said in the letter. Her mother said Bana wrote the letter days before Trump's inauguration, because "she has seen Trump many times on the TV"
"I am part of the Syrian children who suffered from the Syrian war," she wrote in the letter. The girl told Trump her school in Aleppo was destroyed by the bombing and some of her friends had died.
"Right now in Turkey, I can go out and enjoy. I can go to school although I didn't yet. That is why peace is important for everyone including you."
"However, millions of Syrian children are not like me right now and suffering in different parts of Syria," she wrote.
Bana also offered her friendship to Trump saying, "If you promise me you will do something for the children of Syria, I am already your new friend."
At least 15,000 children are among the more than 300,000 people who have been killed in Syria's six-year war between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and rebel forces.
Bana Alabed,,the seven-year-old girl who found fame online by tweeting about her life in the war-ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo
Bana first shot to prominence in November last year for depicting the plight many faced in Aleppo, as she tweeted pictures of the city's bombed buildings and of herself at home
This is our house, My beloved dolls died in the bombing of our house. I am very sad but happy to be alive.- Bana
Bana and her mother, along with 25,000 other refugees, were evacuated safely from the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo to Turkey last month.
On Dec 21, she met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who supports the rebels fighting his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, and expressed her wish to go back to her home one day and fulfil her dream of becoming a teacher
Bana and her younger brother siting on the lap of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan as his wife Ermine looks on
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