This screenshot maybe be blurry, but what isn’t blurred is this immigrant’s instincts of the legendary hospitality of Syria.
Attending an English-language and integration class run by volunteers in Ohio, Hazaa Alabdullah brings food to each class and feeds everyone there out of the goodness of his heart.
He’s now the subject of a viral TikTok video taken by Shea Kumar, who volunteers as one of the English teachers at the school.
“I teach refugees English and every week this students brings in food for the entire class,” wrote Kumar, adding in the caption to the video, “things like this make me love humanity.”
The comments were filled with teachers and volunteers who had previously or still worked with immigrant-related agencies, and they all could relate, or share a story of a similar gesture from a similar kind of man to Alabdullah.
Alabdullah immigrated to Ohio four years ago from Syria along with his wife, and four of his six children. He has already gone on to create some cherished memories of his new life here in America, including a visit to the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Ohio.
“Neil Armstrong stood on the Moon, you remember?” Alabdullah asks TODAY, who interviewed him briefly. He proceeded to tell the story of how he listened to the 1969 broadcast over a radio in his village.
It took him 6 months of searching newspaper stalls and magazine racks before he finally got to see a black and white photo of Armstrong on the Moon.
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“Now, I’m here in Ohio, I go visit his museum,” he said cheerily.
Kumar thinks the reason the video went to viral is because “it shows how good humanity can be,” she tells TODAY.com, adding that the students, from places like Eritrea, Somalia, and Lebanon, are uplifted by the gesture.
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