Cost of the rubber raft meant to transport the Kurdi family from Turkey to Greece = $4450
Number of Kurdi family members to survive trip = 1
Age of Aylan Kurdi, the youngest family member drowned at sea = 3 years
Age of his drowned brother, Ghalib = 5 years
Syrian refugees drowned or missing at sea seeking safer home in 2015 = 2500
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Syrians currently displaced due to Syrian civil war and ISIL activity = 12 million
Syrians dead = 250,000
Syrian refugees = 4 million
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Broken down:
Refugees that are children = approximately 50%
Syrian refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon = 2.1 million
Syrian refugees in Turkey = 1.9 million
Syrian refugees in North Africa = 24,000
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Broken (breaking down) down further:
Ratio of Syrians to Lebanese in Lebanon = 1 in 5
Syrian refugee children absorbed in Lebanon schools = 90,000
Syrian refugee children in Lebanon not yet absorbed in schools = 295,000
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Pressing:
Syrian refugees who began walking from Hungary to Austria during the Labor Day weekend because conditions in Hungarian refugee camps were deplorable = 1000 plus
Distance from Budapest, Hungary to Vienna, Austria’s capital = 155 miles
Number of dead refugees found in the (airless) back of abandoned truck on Austrian highway = 71
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Price of international attention = young Aylan’s life
Resettlement spots pledged by entire international community as of the night of Aylan’s fateful crossing = 104,000
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Promises:
Syrian refugees promised acceptance into Germany = 800,000
(Population of San Francisco = near 800,000)
(Average price each Syrian refugee has been paying people smugglers to get to Germany = $3000)
Syrian refugees promised acceptance into the UK = 20,000
Syrian refugees promised acceptance into France = 24,000
Syrian refugees promised acceptance into Poland = 2000
Syrian refugees promised acceptance into Australia = 12,000
Syrian refugees promised acceptance into Canada = 11,300 (plus, depending on upcoming elections)
Syrian refugee families to be sheltered by the Vatican = 2
Syrian refugees who would find shelter if every Catholic parish, convent, monastery, and sanctuary in Europe took in one family of refugees, as per the Pope’s request = tens of thousands
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UN High Commission for Refugees referrals to US prior to Aylan’s fateful crossing = 12,000
Syrian refugees actually admitted to US since 2011 = 1500
Syrian refugees now promised acceptance by the US = 10,0000
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Funds required by UNHCR to assist Syrian refugees in 2015 = $4.5 billion
Funds UNHCR had received from international community, in 2015, as of the night of Aylan’s fateful crossing = $ 1.8 billion
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Photos captured of drowned Syrian refugee children to lend international attention to the humanitarian tragedy = 2 (both of 3-year-old Aylan)
Size of the Kurdi’s $4450 rubber raft = 15 feet
Swell of waves in Mediterranean Sea during this season of the Meltemi winds = 5 to 15 feet
Syrian refugees rescued by Greek coast guard from the Mediterranean Sea over the 2015 Labor Day weekend = 2500
Waves that lapped at 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s cheek while he lay dead on shore = unconfirmed
Cost of a collective blind eye = unconfirmed
Future for millions of Syrian refugees = still unconfirmed
