This family raised A TON of money to help the migrant children separated from their parents
When news of the migrant children being separated from their parents at the border and held in Texas detention centres broke last week, many people were horrified, but felt like there wasn’t much they could do to help. However, this couple decided they had to take action?and their efforts have been rewarded a million-fold.
Dave and Charlotte Willner started a fundraising campaign to raise money for RAICES, a non-profit organization in Texas that provides legal services to immigrant families. Charlotte wrote on the fundraising page that when they saw the heartbreaking photo of the two-year-old Honduran girl crying for her parents who were taken at the border, they saw their own daughter, who is the same age.
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Why Donald Trump and a bad divorce made me decide to become a surrogateWhen they started the fundraiser less than a week ago, their goal was to raise $1,500 to help reunite at least one family that was separated at the border. Since then they’ve raised almost $16.7 million! Safe to say, they surpassed their goal?by over a million percent!
The Willners have since reset the goal to $20 million and Facebook has said that this is the biggest fundraiser its ever hosted on its site. In fact, Facebook had to update its fundraising plat...
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