Kyrie Irving donates $45k to a Nigerian school & a Ghanaian orphanage
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- 28 Feb 2023
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Dallas Mavericks point guard Kyrie Irving has donated $45,000 to a fundraiser that benefits children in two communities in West Africa.
The fundraiser was started by 22-year-old traveler Cameron Mofid, who initially set a goal of $5k to help build a new orphanage in Ghana and improve a school and fund supplies for its students in Nigeria.
This campaign has now topped $65,000 in donations to help children in the cities of Accra in Ghana and Lagos in Nigeria.
'I just got back from backpacking in West Africa and set up a GoFundMe to raise funds for a school in a slum in Nigeria and an orphanage in Ghana that I visited,' Mofid told DailyMail.com
'We raised over $10,000 in the first week with the support of over 200 people and the fundraiser started trending. Yesterday, I woke up to a $45,000 donation from basketball star Kyrie Irving.
'His donation will provide a water tank for the school in Nigeria (so they have access to clean drinking water) and also ensures that all 351 students in the school will have shoes, uniforms, books, and backpacks.' Read More…
