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12th Sep 2015

Pic: Check out this touching note found in a bag donated to refugee campaign

This was found in a jacket pocket

Tony Cuddihy

People are good.

The current refugee crisis engulfing parts of Africa, the Middle East and Europe is bringing out the best in many people across the continents.

This note was found in a jacket donated to the relief effort by a person in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and shows the level of warmth towards those whose lives have been torn apart in Syria and beyond.

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Meanwhile, several Irish stars are telling the stories of the 11 million Syrians being forced from their home by the country’s civil war.

Voices for Syria is part of GOAL’s efforts to provide relief for the refugees.

In this clip, Aiden Gillen speaks the words of Abdullah Kurdi, the father of the two young boys whose bodies washed up on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey recently.

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