Refugees Council, Open Arms ENG, Care4Calais mourn Alan Kurdi

Eight years after his death, organisations and individuals across the globe have continued mourning Alan Kurdi.

Alan Kurdi died at the sea at the age of two. He was a Syrian refugee.

Among the organisations that are remembering him today are Refugees Council, Open Arms ENG, and Care4Calais.

Below are their comments:

Refugee Council: 8 years ago the devastating image of a child who had died at sea united the world in grief. The child was Alan Kurdi, a Syrian refugee. He was just 2 years old.

Our thoughts are with his family on this day. We must do all we can to prevent this from happening in the future.

Open Arms ENG: 8 years since #AlanKurdi.
How many mothers, fathers, daughters, sons without a name have died since then in seas, deserts or walled borders?
People who fled war or dreamed of a better future are no longer here.
Only solidarity and the struggle of civil society will make life.

Care4Calais: Eight years ago, we woke up to one of the most horrifying, heartbreaking pictures most of us had ever seen: the image of two-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi washed up on Turkish beach.

What are we to make of the response to that image eight years on?🧵