This photo shows a young Afghan girl skipping across the tarmac at an airport after being evacuated from Kabul. It has gone viral in the last week.
The photo was taken by a photographer Johanna Geron at Melsbroek military airport near Brussels, Belgium. The girl was one of 1400 people evacuated to Belgium.
The former Prime Minister of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, tweeted the photo and wrote, "Wonderful. This is what happens when you protect refugees. Welcome to Belgium, little girl!"
The current Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo said, "Belgium will continue to repatriate to our country those people evacuated (in the coming days)"
What's happening in the photo, where is it taken?
- what's happening in Afghanistan?
- What does evacuate mean? Why are so many people trying to leave?
- what is a refugee? What makes the people leaving refugees?
- why are so many people from different countries helping to evacuate families?
- this picture has gone viral, what do you think that shows about how people around the world feel about refugees and the situation in Afghanistan?
- how do you think the little girl in the picture felt when she was in Afghanistan?
- how does she feel now? Why have her feelings changed?
- "This is what happens when you protect refugees" what does that mean?
- Some people say we shouldn't help refugees and they shouldn't come here. Why do some people feel like that?
- "Welcome to Belgium, little girl" why is that important to say?
- what can we learn from Guy Verhofstadt?
- what can we learn from this little girl?
- how is the girl different to you, how is she similar? What might she like doing that you like doing?
- If this little girl came to our school what would we do to make sure she didn't feel like an outsider?
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