Alex, 6, writes heartbreaking letter to Obama on Syrian 'dust' boy

IT takes a six-year-old to melt the heart of a powerful world leader.

Meet Alex, an inspirational six-year-old from Scarsdale, New York who wrote a poignant letter to President Barack Obama pleading him to provide shelter to Omran Daqneesh, the five-year-old Syrian boy whose shocking image of him covered with specks of dust sitting alone in an ambulance.

In a letter to White House, Alex persuaded Obama to visit Syria and bring Omran to the United States.

“President Obama, do you still remember the boy who got picked up by the ambulance in Syria? Can you please go get him and bring him here?

“We will wait for you with flags, flowers and balloons … We will give him a family and he will be our brother,” wrote Alex in the letter.

Understandably, Alex's handwritten letter travelled wide and far. It moved many hearts and shed tears of those who read it.


A visibly-moved Obama took the privilege to read the letter at the 71st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) following the migrants’ crisis, before the White House recorded Alex reading the letter.

“We all need to be Alex … imagine his misery and how many lives we could save,” said Obama on his Facebook.

Meanwhile, Alex’s moving letter received numerous praises from social media users, citing him as more humane than any grownups.