Children's Villages has launched a campaign from its headquarters in Norway, to raise public awareness about the situation of hundreds of Syrian children who are living in ruined buildings and in a precarious situation, because of a war that is characterized by a total lack of protection of minors.
Sources from the organization ensure that Norwegians will respond positively: the goal is to raise funds for the purchase of mattresses and warm clothes for these little ones; because as we know in Syria it can get very coldThe focus of the campaign is a video starring an 11-year-old boy named Johannes Lønnestad Flaaten, and the action itself constitutes a social experiment aimed at mobilizing civil society. Would you help a free and western child who is alone and without warm clothes at low temperatures? Would you do the same for dirty, hungry and scared children who can't even move to a refugee camp?
The little actor shivers cold at a bus stop in St. Hanshaugen (Oslo), while passersby care about their condition and offer different warm clothes (jackets, gloves, a scarf). The boy himself says he expected a worse response, but finally there were only three people who did not decide to help him.
And even more worried was his father, until he began to observe the kind gestures of people of all ages, some of whom stayed in suspenders or short sleeves. Although the concern of this father is insignificant to that suffered by adults who have minors in their care in Syria, because to the uncertainty of whether it will be possible to keep them alive, the certainty that the episode they are starring is added (and this is not a montage) will mark them for life.
I must tell you that the campaign is taking effect, and the number of donations continues to grow, so that Children's Villages will be able to provide anything insignificant help from Norway.
