A six-year-old New York child was so moved by the photo of Aleppo boy Omran Daqueesh covered in dust and blood, he decided to reach out.
To President Barack Obama, asking if Omran could live with him.
Obama first read portions of Alex’s letter at the Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis, which he hosted at the United Nations.
He then released an adorable video of Alex’s letter.
“Dear President Obama, remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance in Syria?” the boy read from his family’s dining room table.
“Can you please go get him and bring him to our home?"
"We’ll be waiting with flags, flowers and balloons.”
Alex said that he his sister Catherine would collect butterflies for Omran, and he would teach him how to ride a bike and how to do math.
He would also introduce him to his friends, he said.
“We can all play together,” Alex’s inspirational offer continued. “We will invite him to birthday parties and he can teach us another language.”
There are currently about 20 million refugees around the world, including almost 5 million in Syria, and 65 million people in all are displaced.
Obama urged the world to be as accepting as Alex.
“Those are the words of a 6-year-old boy … a child who has not learned to be cynical or suspicious or fearful of other people," he said.
In Alex’s mind, the President noted, there is simply no distinction of "where they come from, how they look, or how they pray."
“We should all be more like Alex. Imagine what the world would look like if we were. Imagine the suffering we could ease, the lives we could save.”
The U.N. General Assembly’s first-ever summit on refugees and migrants was held this week, but this six-year-old may have been the real star.