Three Years Later, We Finally Get a Brutally Powerful Ad About the Crisis in Syria

A girl's life destroyed in one second a day

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For PSA campaigns aimed at getting people to help the children of Syria, job one is making the crisis feel immediate rather than remote.

Last month's hidden-camera stunt in Norway, in which a child sat freezing without a coat at a bus stop in winter, did just that. Now, Save the Children has released its own U.K. campaign to make the horror in Syria feel real—the 90-second video below, which does so to devastating effect.

The ad, by creative agency Don't Panic, imagines if what has happened in Syria were to happen in London.

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