Syrian man selling pens on street to feed his daughter earns $37k after picture goes viral

This is great news! More than $37k has been raised in
just 11 hours to support a Syrian refugee pictured selling
pens in Beirut while carrying his sleeping daughter.
In the heartbreaking images, the man offers out a
handful of biros, clutching a plastic bag of more pens while
his little daughter sleeps wrapped over his shoulder.The
photos of the father and child went viral after they were
posted two days ago on Twitter by activist Gissur
Simonarson.
He was then inundated with requests to help the man and
so Gissur, based in Norway, announced he was going to try
to find him.
He launched a Twitter account named #BuyPens and within
30 minutes, someone on Twitter contacted Gissur saying he
saw the man every day around his house.
Incredibly, twenty-four hours later the man and his
daughter were identified as single dad-of-two Abdul and
his daughter Reem, four and a half.
Gissi launched a crowdfunding page to raise money to help
Abdul start a new life for his family.
Amazingly, in the first 30 minutes Gissur's goal of $5,000
was raised.
He wrote: "We have reached my goal of $5,000 in the first
30 min.
"This was never meant as a cap, just something to start
with.
"Let's make sure that Abdul and Reem can really start a
great new life.
"All extra donations will of course go directly to them as
well."
The fundraising total has reached more than $37,859 in 11
hours and continues to go up.