11-01-2017 20:36 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Photo of dead Syrian boy boosts fundraising 100-fold – study

By Luke Mintz LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An iconic photo of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi washed up dead on a Turkish beach had a greater impact on fundraising efforts for Syrian refugees than hundreds of thousands of deaths, a study has shown. The photo of Kurdi appeared in media across the world in the days after he drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in September 2015. "People who had been unmoved by the relentlessly rising death toll in Syria suddenly appeared to care much mo
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