What is Rami’s version of this toy story? |
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Rami Adham, a 44-year-old father of six, is a Finnish-Syrian who started a voluntary mission to bring food, medicine, water and toys for people affected by the Syrian Civil War, especially the children. Rami immigrated to Finland in 1988 and he now runs an aid agency called Suomi Syria.
That realisation turned him into a full-time toy smuggler, moving toys from Finland to Syria through Turkey.
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Why have doubts been cast over his story? |
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Rami Adham seemed too good to be true. The internet saluted the man who would risk his life many times over just to make little children smile. His story went viral. Donations started pouring in to enable him to buy more toys. With fame came more scrutiny. And then came the allegations from Finland, his resident country, that his story was not true - at least not completely true.
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When did Adham counter these allegations? |
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In an interview with the BBC, Rami Adham did not exactly disprove the allegations; he either played them down or showed them as ‘things you have to do when you are in a war zone’. On misappropriation of donated money
On Jihadi links
On faking his injury
On the investigations
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Where is international aid failing the Syrian people? |
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Even if Rami’s story is true, there is little that toys for little children can achieve in a city that is crumbling by the day.
Aleppo needs the United Nations and the International Red Cross more than it needs Rami Adham. |
Who are the orphans? |
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Children survivors and victims’ in Syria have been named the ‘faces of war.’ So young and innocent, yet, they endure cruelty brought by vicious and inhumane acts of extremists. Even if they manage to survive, they have to live through the trauma of seeing their parents get tortured to death in front of their very own eyes.
But generous people alone cannot save these children. The world has to act now to save an entire generation of Syria from elimination. |
How did Rami fund his charity work? |
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People responded in huge numbers after Rami’s story went viral, so much so that the money he collected has now become a source of investigation. Rami provided a heart-warming story to be consumed by people like us who sit cosily in our rooms far away from the children who are being robbed of their most precious years by a never-ending-war. The reality is cold and dark. The children of Syria need toys. But they also need to live, study and play in peace. |