Ontario woman who was known as ‘napalm girl’ helping Ukrainians settle in Canada
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Tears streamed down Kim Phuc Phan Thi's face as she stood at the entrance to a plane set to carry Ukrainian newcomers from Poland to Canada last month.
Tears streamed down Kim Phuc Phan Thi’s face as she stood at the entrance to a plane set to carry Ukrainian newcomers from Poland to Canada last month.
The aircraft was emblazoned with a famous black and white photo of Phan Thi as a nine-year-old child — an image that made her known as the “napalm girl” — showing her naked, screaming and fleeing an attack during the Vietnam War.
Fifty years after that photograph was taken, Phan Thi found herself drawn to helping Ukrainians escape the war in their country for the safe haven of Canada, just as she had done decades ago.
“I just remembered what’s happening to them now … I have been there. I understand what they need,” she said in an interview from her home in Ajax, Ont.
“I’m so thankful to be alive and to be there for them, give them hope.”
Phan Thi, who years ago founded an organization aimed at helping children affected by war, is currently working to support Ukrainian newcomers and hopes to go on more flights similar to the one she was on last month.
She first became involved with last month’s effort after receiving an email from a social justice organization seeking permission to use the famous photograph of her as a child on the outside of their plane.
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