Walking through a quiet Ankara park on a cold February afternoon, it was hard to miss the giggles and playful screams of 7-year-old Bana al-Abed and her two brothers.
As they bounced on a trampoline, the bloody war in their Syrian homeland seemed like a very distant memory.
But Bana, along with her family, only fled the besieged eastern portion of Aleppo in December. Her story had begun to resonate globally when, with the help of her mother Fatemah, she started tweeting about the plight of
people living in the war-torn city.
When she tweeted that she liked reading, author J.K. Rowling sent her eBooks of the entire Harry Potter series.
The family eventually was safely evacuated -- and now are experiencing a very different reality. "I am very happy, so much safe and peace and play, there is no bombings," said Bana, as she rocked back and forth on a purple dinosaur ride.
Her 3-year-old brother Nour ran from one slide to the next and shouted for his father to spin him faster.
Walking through a quiet Ankara park on a cold February afternoon, it was hard to miss the giggles and playful screams of 7-year-old Bana al-Abed and her two brothers.
When she tweeted that she liked reading, author J.K. Rowling sent her eBooks of the entire Harry Potter series.
The family eventually was safely evacuated -- and now are experiencing a very different reality. "I am very happy, so much safe and peace and play, there is no bombings," said Bana, as she rocked back and forth on a purple dinosaur ride.
Her 3-year-old brother Nour ran from one slide to the next and shouted for his father to spin him faster.
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