MIT student making sleeping bags for refugees in Middle East

Cambridge, Mass. • It wasn’t enough to send warm wishes to refugees in Syria. Vick Liu wanted to send them actual warmth.The sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is creating a new line of sleeping bags designed for refugees who have few other options to keep warm during harsh winters in the Middle East. An avid backpacker in his youth, Liu came up with the idea last year after reading about Syrian families who were struggling to survive freezing temperatures after fl