Bana al-Abed to Trump: Save the Children, Child Syrian Tweeter Pleads

Bana al-Abed, a 7-year-old girl from Aleppo, Syria, has written President Donald Trump a letter asking him to help save the children of her war-torn country.

Bana became famous for her tweets about life in besieged eastern Aleppo from a child’s perspective. Her family now lives in Turkey after being evacuated from Aleppo when her home was destroyed in December, but she is still very concerned about those remaining in Syria, especially the children.

“Can you please save the children and people of Syria?” Bana wrote to Trump days before his inauguration, NBC News reported. “You must do something for the children of Syria because they are like your children and deserve peace like you.”

Bana said she is at peace living in Turkey, but misses her friends from Aleppo, some of whom died in the attacks there, according to NBC News.

According to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 4.8 million people have left Syria since the war started in 2011, and 6.3 million have had to leave their homes but were relocated within Syria, NBC News reported.

Bana’s Twitter account has 362,000 followers. Her mother Fatemah helped her start the account and also helped send the letter to Trump, Newsweek said.

Fatemah told the BBC that Bana wrote the letter because she saw Trump “many times on the TV.” Trump’s position on the conflict in Syria is not yet clear.

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