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fund, kids in need of partnership and desks. set up to provide desks in africa where students have never seen desks. the desks we are delivering to these classrooms are made in malawi, the money you're contributing will be paid to workers in small factories there and help lift their families out of poverty. the money we raised far exceeded my expectations the very first day the fund was open after my announcement on this show december 16th. as we left it on december 23rd, we had just cracked the million dollar threshold, a level i never dreamed of reaching. with no further importuning from me, since then you have added almost $700,000, bringing the kind fund total tonight to $100,696,802 dollars. at $48 a desk, that will deliver 48,350 of these desks.
the kind fund total tonight to $100,696,802 dollars. at $48 a desk, that will deliver 48,350 of these desks. these desks are designed to seat two children. at the overcrowded schools in malawi i've been to they can easily fit three on this little bench. though we're already on track to deliver more desks this year than what i ever could have hoped for, we are many years away from providing a desk for every kid in malawi who shows up for school, never mind every kid in africa. but the kind fund is now, as i intended it to be, the permanent cause of this show. you will always be able to go to our website, la