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http://news.yahoo.com/drowned-syria...s-human-cost-of-refugee-crisis-145135288.html
Tragic image of drowned Syrian toddler highlights human cost of refugee crisis
Can someone direct me to a fund that is trying to help these people? This is breaking my heart
“I’m not entirely sure what I can do to help this situation,” she continued. “But I do know that I cannot sit back and pretend that this isn’t happening. [I can't pretend] that that boy washed up on the shore wasn’t once a carefree happy child like one of my own, that there aren’t desperate parents trying to fight for and protect their children at our shores and borders. I will look and see and feel — because someone has to.”
Tragic image of drowned Syrian toddler highlights human cost of refugee crisis
His name was Aylan.
Images of a drowned Syrian boy’s body washed ashore on a Turkish beach caught the world’s attention Wednesday and highlighted the tragic plight of thousands of migrants who are fleeing the war-torn region, and the brutality of Islamic terrorists, to seek safety and asylum.
Three-year-old Aylan Kurdi was one of at least 12 Syrians who drowned trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.
The distressing pictures show Aylan, wearing a red T-shirt and blue shorts, lying face-down in the sand in Bodrum, a popular resort city, before a Turkish police officer carries his body away. The images quickly spread across the Internet under the hashtag “#KiyiyaVuranInsanlik,” which means “humanity washed ashore,” drawing renewed attention to the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
“Words and numbers only go so far and often the world needs something so out of the ordinary [of our] experience and so jarring to the senses to force it to engage,” Rob Simpson, a British humanitarian worker in Yemen (temporarily in Jordan), said to Yahoo News. “Yes, the picture is horrific, but the story it tells is even more so; one tragedy really amplifies the other. The only thing I hope is that the debate around whether it was right or wrong to broadcast this to the world does not overshadow and outweigh the real debate lying underneath: How a child can die this way.”
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Images of the toddler's body have dominated international headlines. (AFP Photo)
The widely shared image triggered intense emotions and left many who saw it seeking ways to take action to help those displaced by Syria's civil war, including Claire Nelson, a Glasgow-based businesswoman who took to Twitter after she saw the pictures.
“I stared at this picture this morning, really stared, and then I sobbed. Deeply and desperately sobbed. I sobbed for this child, his mother, his father and siblings. I sobbed for the others like him that we have seen washed ashore like litter on the beach,” she said in an email to Yahoo News.
Can someone direct me to a fund that is trying to help these people? This is breaking my heart
“I’m not entirely sure what I can do to help this situation,” she continued. “But I do know that I cannot sit back and pretend that this isn’t happening. [I can't pretend] that that boy washed up on the shore wasn’t once a carefree happy child like one of my own, that there aren’t desperate parents trying to fight for and protect their children at our shores and borders. I will look and see and feel — because someone has to.”
