Carnegie President Says Humanitarians Can Have Impact on Refugee Crisis
A six-country survey commissioned by the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity finds widespread misperceptions of the scale of the global refugee crisis.
While more than half the respondents said they would help Syrian refugees if they could, far fewer said they had actually donated time or money in the past year to help refugees and many questioned their ability to make a real difference.
Of those who have taken action, 27 percent did so after hearing a personal story about refugees.
"What is encouraging is that the research shows that although individuals might struggle to turn compassion into action, the public realizes that those humanitarians who do intervene on behalf of others can have a tremendous impact," said Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and a member of the Aurora Prize selection committee...