The International Olympic Committee is setting up a $2 million fund to assist refugees.

Migrants gather in front of the reception center for refugees and asylum seekers
as they wait for registration in Berlin, Friday, Sept. 4, 2015.

With this terrible crisis unfolding across the Middle East, Africa and Europe, sport and the Olympic Movement wanted to play its part in bringing humanitarian help to the refugees," IOC President Thomas Bach said Friday.

he IOC has a long-term relationship with the United Nations and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "We know through experience that sport can ease the plight of refugees, many of them young people and children," Bach said. "Our thoughts are with the many refugees risking their lives and the lives of their families to escape danger."