Little Amal, a puppet, is walking 8,000 kilometres, from Turkey to the UK in search of her mother

Good Chance Theatre’s latest production features aSyrian puppet that will walk from Gaziantep to Manchester, to raise awareness on the refugee crisis

Little Amal is setting out to look for her mother. The nine-year-old is a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, who will walk from the Syrian-Turkey border to the UK, in search of her displaced family. Along the way, each village, town and city she visits, will welcome her with a slew of events ranging from performances to art installations. Amal might be a 3.5-metre-tall puppet, carefully created by the Handspring Puppet Company in Cape Town, South Africa, but her journey encompasses the real tales of numerous young refugees and countless children who get torn away from their homes and separated from their families, not just in Turkey and Europe, but all around the world.