An online campaign launched after two touching photos of a Syrian refugee selling biros to support his children were posted online has raised more than $150,000 - and the amount is still growing.
Gissur Simonarson, the founder of Conflict News, posted two pictures to Twitter on Tuesday of a man holding a sleeping girl over his shoulder while he tried to sell pens on a roadside in Beirut, Lebanon.
“Gotten a lot of requests to help this man and his daughter. Anyone know people in Beirut able to locate him?” Mr Simonarson wrote after receiving hundreds of responses to the photos.
People soon began tweeting and retweeting the images using the hashtag #BuyPens in an effort to track down the man in the photos.
“Within 30 min of tweeting the photo with @Conflicts account, I was pointed to a twitter user,” Mr Simonarson wrote online.
The user told him he saw the man every day in his area. Within two days the power of people and the internet had led to the discovery of Abdul Haleem al-Kader and his daughter.