How Public Libraries Can Help Syrian Refugees

摘要

The toddler is lying face down on the sand, waves lapping near his face. He looks as though he could be asleep. But 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi is dead, having drowned, with his mother and brother, fleeing violence in Syria. Within a week of this tragedy in September 2015, President Barack Obama raised the number of Syrian refugees that the United States would accept in fiscal year 2016 to 10,000, up from about 2,000 in 2015.