Why it took an Edmonton social media star over a year to donate crowdfunding proceeds
What happened? Weerasinghe said she worked with GoFundMe to find a charity, which a spokesperson confirmed, but finding one was difficult and time-consuming. "Some of them didn't get in contact with us because obviously it was a very busy time," she said. In June 2019, she donated $20,000 to Alpha Trust, a social arm of the Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Sri Lanka, but according to a statement on Facebook from the church, after "extensive interviews and fact-finding," members of the Alpha Trust team concluded that all victims who needed help were being taken care of by other groups. In De...
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