Abdul Halim al-Attar now has a new house for his children and the bakery of his dreams after being captured selling pens by the side of the road in Lebanon. A photo shows Abdul Halim al-Attar, a Syrian refugee residing in Lebanon, selling pens on the side of the road went viral in 2015. That photograph forever altered his life!

After the internet tracked him down, an IndieGoGo campaign in his honor raised a whopping $191,000.Hussein Malla / Associated Press Due to challenges in moving funds to Lebanon, Al-Attar has only received 40% of the remaining amount after banking and processing fees — around $168,000 — thus far.

Because PayPal does not operate in Lebanon, a friend of the fundraising campaign was forced to bring over withdrawn funds from Dubai. However, the money he got has aided both him and other Syrian refugees.

Though he told BuzzFeed News in August that he hoped to go to Europe, the Associated Press found him in Beirut, where he’d opened a bakery, a kebab shop, and a restaurant. He has not only donated $25,000 of the monies raised to friends and relatives in Syria, but he’s also hired 16 other Syrian refugees as employees in his businesses. Hussein Malla / AP Al-Attar is currently “breaking even with steady orders of fresh bread and shawarmas from nearby workers and families in the working-class neighborhood of Ared Jaloul,” the AP reports.

Al-Attar was also able to relocate his two daughters from their shared one-bedroom flat to a new two-bedroom. Reem, four, has new toys to show off, and her nine-year-old brother Abdullelah has returned to school after a three-year absence. Despite the fact that circumstances Attar’s have drastically changed,

The chances of a similar improvement in prospects for the 1.25 million Syrian refugees currently residing in Lebanon are slim. The small country of four million people has struggled to absorb the influx of refugees, and while foreign aid has helped, the Syrian crisis has had a negative impact on the Lebanese economy.