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a powerful image: (Original Post) kpete Aug 2015 OP
Isn't that a cast on the child's arm? broiles Aug 2015 #1
Why would that matter to an Israeli soldier? awoke_in_2003 Aug 2015 #2
If that. hifiguy Aug 2015 #4
If that indeed n/t malaise Aug 2015 #6
Yep. nt LiberalElite Aug 2015 #3
another powerful image leads to 116k raised in one day for Palestinian refugee Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 #5
 

Liberal_in_LA

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5. another powerful image leads to 116k raised in one day for Palestinian refugee
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 08:35 PM
Aug 2015

The pen is mightier than the sword: Touching photo of desperate refugee selling biros in Beirut street as he carries his sleeping daughter sparks viral fundraising campaign that raises £75,000 in just one day
Abdul was forced to flee Yarmouk in Syria which has been invaded by ISIS
The father of two was photographed in Lebanon selling pens on the street
Pictures uploaded by journalist Gissur Simonarson for funding campaign
Campaign raised $80,000 that Abdul will use to help other Syrian families


An online fundraiser has raised more than £75,000 for a refugee from Syria and his daughter after a sharing moving pictures of the man selling pens in the streets of Beirut.
Gissur Simonarson, founder of Conflict News, posted the pictures on Tuesday and was flooded with requests to help the man, a Palestinian from the devastated Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria.
The touching pictures showed Abdul, a single father of two, holding up pens on a roadside on the southern outskirts of Damascus while holding his sleeping four-year-old daughter, Reem.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3215167/Viral-photo-desperate-Syrian-father-selling-pens-street-carries-sleeping-daughter-raises-44-000-just-one-day.html#ixzz3kFoXak3w
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