resident whose nephews drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after a boat loaded with Syrian refugees capsized is launching a campaign on the fifth anniversary of their deaths to help a German organization aiding refugee children. The death of Tima Kurdi's three-year-old nephew Alan Kurdi made international headlines after a photograph of his lifeless body on a Turkish beach was taken on Sept. 2, 2015. She says the situation for refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe has not improved since the death of her brother's wife and his two children. (Sea-Eye )"It took us one image — the image of the boy on the beach, Alan Kurdi — to move us to be human. Sea-Eye says more than 20,000 refugees including young children have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea and enter Europe.

Source: CBC News September 02, 2020 10:00 UTC