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White Helmets

The White Helmets is an organization consisting of volunteers from various professions

that have offered to save lives and offer emergency services for innocent individuals in the civil

war-ridden region of Syria and Turkey. The volunteers who are also known as the Syria Civil

Defense, are three men who are the first to respond to any bomb attack in the region of Aleppo

and across Syria. The organization has become famous with how they risk their lives in saving

other people regardless of their religious background and political affiliations. This paper evaluates

the actors' main goals, the actions they undertake to pursue them, and valuable contributions to the

development and the struggles they face in their missions.

The actors who are volunteers in the organization have a set of goals that they are focused

on achieving and that is the reason they formed the group. The White Helmets were focused on

reducing the number of innocent lives lost in the constant bombing attacks in Syria and specifically

Aleppo. They were a group of people from different professions who offered to risk their lives in

saving lives after bombing attacks and provide emergency health services to those affected and

injured by the bombing attacks. They seek to provide hope for the thousands of people who were

being affected by the constant bombing in Aleppo and across Syria. They, therefore, wore the

famous white helmets to symbolize the hope they represented for the millions across Syria.

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Through their volunteer mission, they saved a number of lives estimated to be more than 100,000

lives (Sterling 12).

In achieving these goals of providing hope for the hopeless citizens affected by the constant

bombing in Aleppo and generally Syria and saving innocent lives, they had to make sacrifices to

achieve them. The volunteers have opted to leave the option of living in the peace of their families,

their wives and children to undertake this volunteer mission. They offered to risk their lives and

the comfort of their families in order to save innocent people that would have died as a result of

the constant bombing in Aleppo and Syria. After the bomb attack, the White Helmets would rush

to the affected place unarmed in order to help all those individuals in need regardless of their

religious background and political affiliation. These volunteering work enabled them to save

around 100,000 lives affected by the bombing (Sterling 12).

Their motto as illustrated by the volunteers in the organization was ‘saving a life is like

saving the whole humanity' a statement that is extracted from the Quran. They presented hope for

the hopeless individuals and wore the famous white helmets as a symbol for hope. In a community

which people have chosen violence, the white helmets, on the other hand, chose peace as their way

of living something which encourages people around the world to peacefully co-exist instead of

opting to violence as a means of showing their superiority. Their bravery, peaceful nature made

them famous and inspiration for many individuals across the world. It is therefore interesting how

they make individuals want to live in peace and volunteer in making other people in trouble to

have a hope of living in the world (Sterling 12).

The volunteers in the organization performed diligently and this portrayed them as a

fearless group of individuals in Syria who in a short period of time had saved about 58,000 lives

as the country suffered the bombing from Russian airstrikes and terrorists. One of the most

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incredible facts about this organization is how they manage to save many innocent lives in quite a

short period of time. The actions of the volunteers depict unstoppable idealisms and intense

bravery, a unique type of integrity (Stirling 23).

The volunteers develop their white helmets characters through their practices and

interviews, they reveal themselves as people who are of great bravery, ideas, and integrity in front

of their enemies who do not see anything wrong with the bombing and trying to terminate civilian

areas and basic amenities such as hospitals. The actions of these individuals manage to bring out

a lot of information which could inspire myriad discussions amongst families what is occurring in

Syria, the Syrian government, the government of Russia, and the tendency of same U.S citizens to

perceive all citizens living in the Middle Eastern nations as perpetrators of evil and conduct

terrorists acts worldwide (Stirling 24).

The Russian bombings, the rescues conducted, young children being saved from the

rubbles, and the babies who were rescued by the white helmets, depicts a significant heroic group

of the citizens first responders who rescued a significant number of lives of people in just a period

of three years and still stay with the notion that saving a life is to save all humanity (Stirling 24).

The performance of the volunteers in the organization also allows them to freely express

themselves in their daily rescue missions a uses interviews and as they expound on why they do

what they are doing about saving lives, the ideals that motivate them to do that act, and how they

manage to maintain this bravery in the occurrences of such dangers. Some of the volunteers in the

organization offered to engage in this life-risking venture as some lost their loved ones in the

constant bombing attacks on Syria and therefore they did not wish for others to go through the

experience that they underwent. Such factors made the white helmets to press on and believe that

to save life equates to saving the human society (Sterling 13).

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The work carried out by the organization also depicts the culture of the people of the Middle

East through the White Helmets. Through the works of the organization, the characters and beliefs

of the individuals living in the country are revealed through those who actively participated in the

white helmets hence the film gives a sense of belonging to the people of the nation. The major

concern topics that are portrayed in through the works of the organization entails brothers and

sisters, the importance of friendships, significant boy role models and the significant role models.

The volunteers also portray myriad character strengths in their daily rescue missions of those

attacked by the constant bombing such as courage, perseverance, integrity, and teamwork. These

character strengths are majorly portrayed by the White helmet characters. These factors made the

works of the organization to be famous and an inspiration to many people around the world

(Sterling 14).

This diligent performance by the actors in the organization brings value to the nature of the

organization. Through their actions, the interviews, and the simple presentations that the

documentary portrays shows the unstoppable idealism and bravery. Their actions give an in-depth

and informative resource which could develop a dialogue. The actions of the members of the

organization serve as a powerful tool that could bring about a vital topic to the table in captivating

the way that some people perceive about the citizens of Syria. The White Helmets organization

also portrays a character-driven feature that focuses on the events that represented real people

render the human face on the worldwide issues that could otherwise seem to be distant (Sterling

15).

The performance of the actors in the organization was also valuable as it provided an

opportunity to comprehend and make connections between Syria and the outside world. The

performance of the members of the organization also instigated a conversation among people

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across the world on the vitality of engaging in volunteering missions and helping other people in

need. Seeing the life-daring activities that the volunteers engage in is also valuable as it makes

people develop the art of bravery and having hope regardless of the situation. This phenomenon

also reminded the viewers of the real people that have opposite view on certain issues, the

composite and nuances of the different state in which people live in and the significance of having

an honest and serious discussion (Sterling 17).

The role played by characters in the organization plays an important role in the overall

development. Through the actions of the organization, people can learn the art of volunteering to

those people who are unfortunate in certain conditions. The white helmets which are famously

known as a symbol of hope encourage humanity to always be brave and have hope despite the

situation they find themselves in. Individuals are also made to be brave to face any situations they

might find themselves and always to engage in life-risking events to better their future. In a

community that was ridden with violence, the volunteers chose to engage in peace and lifesaving

activities despite the victims' religious background or political affiliations. They, therefore,

encourage people that out of the bad things in the society they are able to do better by engaging in

positive activities. The acts of the organization also encourage positivity in people's way of

thinking and also have better behaviors in the world by fostering unity and the art of volunteering

(Aitken 14).

There are struggles faced by the white helmets while on their volunteer rescue missions

like risking their lives in saving lives after bomb attacks. They do this without any proper

equipment or any armor that can help during the rescue process. The only thing they use is the

white helmets that they have become famous for possessing. The volunteers also do not have funds

to offer full emergency health services and carry out their rescue missions in the affected areas of

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Aleppo and Syria. The volunteers also face criticism for people who do not understand the services

they offer and object their missions by saying the White Helmets are individuals who seek to

portray other states in a negative way (Aitken 14).

Conclusion

Conclusively, the White Helmets organization is a group of some individuals who seek to

save lives and provide emergency health services to those affected by the war events in Aleppo

and around Syria. The actors in the organization seek to foster peace and co-existence by engaging

in volunteer missions regardless of the victims’ religious background and political affiliation. They

also provide hope and bravery for those individuals passing through hard times like those affected

in the film. The actors in the organization engaged in volunteer rescue mission services to help

them save over 100,000 lives across Aleppo and around Syria. The activities they engaged in

contributing to development by bringing hope and bravery to the violence, offering alternatives

for those living in violent environments. The volunteers also face various challenges like lack of

funds to support their rescue mission, offer full health emergency services and criticism from

various people. Despite these challenges, the white helmets continue to risk their lives to save

innocent individuals from the constant bombing of the region.

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Reference List

Aitken, Ian. The concise Routledge encyclopedia of the documentary film. Routledge, 2013.

Sterling, Rick. "Syria's' white helmets' go to Hollywood." Guardian (Sydney) 1768 (2017): 12.

Stirling, R. "The “White Helmets” Controversy." Consortium News [Site] 23 (2016).

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