
Get to know Aylan Kurdi, our first Peace Person of the Week. Aylan Kurdi was the three year old Syrian boy, who drowned at the beginning of September, while he and his family were trying to sail from Turkey to Greece. The weekend after Aylan’s death, fans at German football matches, displayed ‘Refugees welcome’ banners. Across the country, people began welcoming refugees arriving at stations, donating goods such as food, drink, nappies, clothes, and toys, and volunteering with groups working to settle them into the country. It took the death of one very young boy, to change the terms of refugee migration in Europe, and for this reason, we have decided that Aylan Kurdi is our first Peace Person of the Week. Read the full story at peacetimes.news #Peace #PPotW #Syria #Refugee #RefugeesWelcome #Europe #Germany #Turkey #Greece #Death #Volunteer
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