The NGO Save The Children UK has posted a shocking video that is thought-provoking. She transposes the Syrian war to Europe, where we follow a little girl whose daily life changes.
What if a war takes place in Europe? To raise awareness about the war in Syria, the NGO Save The Children UK has chosen to transpose it to London (United Kingdom). In an advertising spot, posted on YouTube on March 5, the organization follows the year of a little girl whose existence changes with the conflict.
A short, but striking film, framed by two birthdays. At the start of the video, the little girl faces a cake covered in candles and is surrounded by a happy family. A year later, the cake is made of sand, decorated with a small candle. Only the mother of the child whispers to him “Make a wish my darling. In one year, the little girl’s daily life has been turned upside down: instead of having dinner at home, she nibbles on fruits picked up in a park, her face is increasingly dirty, she loses her hair and falls ill.
Watch the Save The Children UK spot:
Health crisis for three years
This spot illustrates the damage of the Syrian war, especially among children. This girl of normal existence, who ends up fleeing the fighting and gas attacks, represents all the Syrian children who have suffered from the civil war for three years now. The objective of this film: “to better understand the Syrian crisis (…), to imagine what one feels when a civil war breaks out in his hometown, making his life, his health, his security shutter in shattering”, explained a spokesperson for the NGO Save The Children. At the conclusion of the film, a simple sentence to remind us that the conflict always causes so much damage: “It is not because it does not take place here, that it does not take place at all. “
Since the start of the Syrian war, a polio epidemic has raged in the country. The disease had been eradicated in 1999. The civil war caused a great deal of health damage to the population: hospitals closed or destroyed, doctors kidnapped … On the occasion of a campaign by Médecins Sans Frontières, why actor had met Dr Bernard Leménager. “Even giving birth has become extremely risky”, explained this doctor who carried out a mission in Syria. In some towns, people’s access to health care has even been completely interrupted since the start of the conflict.
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