Australian actress-comedian Celeste Barber’s Facebook fundraiser to support the bushfire relief in Australia is the biggest ever for the social media platform, clocking over $32.5M since she …
fundraiser to support the bushfire relief in Australia is the biggest ever for the social media platform, clocking over $32.5M since she first launched it on Friday, Jan. 3.
All funds will go to The Trustee for NSW Rural Fire Service & Brigades Donations Fund. Donations flowed in from Australians as well as the US, the UK, Belgium, and Portugal. To date, reports say that around 25 people have died from the fires, including more than a billion animals. Barber is the star of such Australian series as On Sunday, Russell Crowe, who wound up winning the Golden Globe for Best TV Actor in a Limited Series for Showtime’s“Make no mistake, the tragedy unfolding in Australia is climate change based.
The previous biggest fundraiser on Facebook was developed by Charlotte and Dave Willner in the US, who raised money for RAICES in Texas, accumulating $20.77M in the summer of 2018 from more than 530K people. The fundraiser’s goal was to assist immigrant families who were separated due to President Trump’s family separation policy .
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