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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Shehab Khan

Mother collects baby carriers to donate to Syrian refugees

A mother in California is donating baby carriers to help Syrian refugees.

Cristal Logothetis set up Carry the Future, a non-profit which aims to help refugees with small children.

After intial fund raising and donations poured in, Ms Logothetis and ten others flew to Greece to hand out more than 3,000 baby carriers, Today reported.

Almost all the refugees are carrying everything they own, including their children, for hundreds of miles to leave war-torn Syria.

“Mothers have to walk hundreds of miles with babies and toddlers in their arms; a task that is physically strenuous to say the least,” says Ms Logothetis on the Indiegogo fundraising page.

Messages are being left on donated baby carriers 

A mother of a toddler herself, Ms Logothetis felt the need to act after seeing the image of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, the child who drowned as his family fled Syria.

"When I saw that picture, I didn't just see a little boy face-down on the sand. I saw what could have been my son." Ms Logothetis told Today.

The group has raised over $60,000 so far and have also set up another IndieGoGo campaign called “Operation Refugee Child”. The purpose of the second campaign is to provide care packages for refugees.

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