Maeve Higgins: Little Amal tours the Big Apple on her journey across the world

A giant puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian girl resonates with so many people

Little Amal visits the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, in November of last year. The 3.5 metre tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee started her journey in Turkey on 27 July 2021.

New York is a city where wonderful, sad, and strange things happen every moment, most going unnoticed by the millions living here.

Residents and visitors come and go, vanishing when they leave, barely visible when they’re here amongst the crowd.