Though the refugee crisis in Europe is thousands of miles absent,heart-wrenching images in US media are moving Americans to do something to assist. Here some of our readers tell us whyAre you helping people caught up in the refugee crisis in Europe?
The shocking images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s body lying facedown in the surf in Turkey displayed on the front pages of newspapers worldwide this week enjoy drawn the world’s attention to a refugee crisis that has been escalating all summer.
On Thursday at least 14 US senators called on the US government to take in thousands more Syrian refugees by the conclude of 2016. The UK prime minister, David Cameron, or has now pledged to take in “thousands of refugees”,and Germany has agreed to assist at least 800000.
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Source: theguardian.com