6-year-old New York boy, writes heartbreaking letter to president Obama asking to adopt Syrian boy

US: US president Barack Obama was moved by a powerful heartbreaking letter from a 6-year-old New York boy on Facebook requesting that the White House adopt a Syrian boy. Obama was touched by the letter that has since gone viral that he shared it with the world.

Obama read Alex's Facebook letter aloud at the UN Leaders’ Summit on Refugees held in New York this week.

Alex in his letter to Obama asks if it was possible to bring Omran to America and if he can adopt him and be his brother.
 
Alex, wrote the letter to Obama after the bloodied and confused image of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh in the back of an ambulance in Aleppo, Syria in August went viral.

The footage, which showed Omran Daqneesh wiping blood from his face, was shared around the world.

 “Dear President Obama,” Alex wrote.

“Remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance in Syria? Can you please go get him and bring him to (my home)? Park in the driveway or on the street and we will be waiting for you guys with flags, flowers, and balloons.

“We will give him a family and he will be our brother. Catherine, my little sister, will be collecting butterflies and fireflies for him. In my school, I have a friend from Syria, Omar, and I will introduce him to Omar. We can all play together.

“We can invite him to birthday parties and he will teach us another language. We can teach him English too, just like my friend Aoto from Japan.

“Please tell him that his brother will be Alex who is a very kind boy, just like him. Since he won’t bring toys and doesn’t have toys Catherine will share her big blue stripy white bunny. And I will share my bike and I will teach him how to ride it.

“I will teach him additions and subtractions in math. And he [can] smell Catherine’s lip gloss penguin which is green. She doesn’t let anyone touch it.”

“Thank you very much! I can’t wait for you to come! Alex” he ended the letter.

Obama said the letter needed to be shared.

“Those are the words of a six-year-old boy — a young child who has not learned to be cynical or suspicious or fearful of other people because 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 and the lives we could save. Listen to Alex, read his letter, and I think you’ll understand why I shared it with the world.”

Omran’s home was destroyed during an air strike in Syria on August 18. He was caught on cameras as he was pulled from the rubble and rushed into the back of a waiting ambulance.

The nurse who treated Omran, Abu Rajab from the Syrian American Medical Society told ABC news that he did not cry when he was being treated but couldn’t hold back tears when he was reunited with his parents again.

“He didn’t say anything except to ask for his parents ... They arrived shortly after, in a second wave of people,” Rajab said.

Omran who suffered some head wounds was later released from hospital shortly after being admitted.

The White House also posted the video online.