Over 80K dollars raised through crowdfunding for Syrian refugee

‘”It’s a terribly emotional picture,” says Gissur Simonarson. “You see the look in his face and just the way he holds the pens out, as if those pens are everything he has in the world.”

Last week, the Norwegian activist posted the picture of a man selling pens on the street in Beirut while carrying his sleeping daughter. Within just hours, requests poured in from all over the globe to help the man in the photo. His identity and the person who took the picture were unknown but through social media, the man was identified and with the help of crowdfunding over 80,000 dollars was raised to help him.

It took two days for Simonarson to find street merchant in the Lebanese capital. “Finally found him,” CNN quoted the activist’s tweet. “Been a lot of work, but it was worth it! Now lets help them!”‘

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