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The image of the palestiske Syrian Abdul selling pens in Beirut, with his daughter on the shoulder, has touched many. Icelander Gissur Simon Arson looked him up and started a collection to date has generated 1 million.
The image of the palestiske Syrian Abdul selling pens in Beirut, with his daughter on the shoulder, has touched many. Icelander Gissur Simon Arson looked him up and started a collection to date has generated 1 million.
It started on Tuesday with Gissur Simon Arson on his Twitter published two pictures of a man and his daughter. She hangs knocked over his right shoulder while he was trying to make some money by selling ballpoint pens streets of Beirut. Many touched by the picture and tweeted on the images.
Syrian father selling pens in the streets of #Beirut with his sleeping daughter #Lebanon #Syria pic.twitter.com/KOz4mjW1rd
- Gissur Simon Arson CN (GissiSim) August 25, 2015
Soon, Simon Arson questions if he could try to locate the man and with the hashtag #buypens search began. Several of micro-blog users in Beirut helped, and shortly later had established contact with him – Abdul, Palestinian refugees from a camp in Damascus and single parent to 9-year-old Abdelillah and 4-year-old Reem.
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Simon Arson, who resides in Oslo, felt motivated to try to help Abdul and his children, so he started a collection of Indie Gogo with the objective of $ 5,000. But sunshine story has been widely and in writing, lunchtime on Saturday, has skramlat $ 116,545. Abdul wants to use the money for their children’s schooling and to help other refugees.
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