Wow!: From pixels to pails, crowdfunded wells quench thirst in Senegal’s drylands
NGOUDA DIONE, of Reuters, reports on how builder and fundraiser Mamadou Diakhate is using the internet to fund wells in communities lacking water…
India crowdfunds millions for its weary crematorium workers
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Pity the undertakers – burying and burning all day long, chanting deep into the night yet never keeping pace with the corpses of India’s COVID-19 crisis. And all for what? “For every one body that I perform last rites for, there are a dozen more waiting. There is no social distancing, […]
StrangeSights: A watch to stop face-touching; a presidential poet pays tribute to wheat; and, ‘Wild West’ town for sale…
DAVID ADAMS reports on the odder side of life…
Updated: Folau crowdfunding shut down after $A750,000 raised
Updated 4.30pmMelbourne, AustraliaReuters Sacked Australia fullback Israel Folau’s crowdfunding campaign to raise money to fight his termination has been shut down by the GoFundMe platform, with more than $A750,000 to be refunded to thousands of donors. Folau launched his GoFundMe page on Friday, appealing for $A3 million he said he needed for a potentially long […]
STRANGESIGHTS: CROWD-FUNDING A CASTLE RESTORATION; A SPHINX FOUND IN CALIFORNIA; AND, NIGERIA’S NEW ‘COMMISSIONER FOR HAPPINESS’…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Proposed US museum of religion seeks funding to purchase train ‘chapel car’
The proposed National Museum of American Religion in the US has launched a funding appeal to purchase its first major artifact – a train car that once served as a travelling chapel in the US. The car, named the Good Will, was formerly owned by the American Baptist Publication Society and was among numerous “chapel cars” used […]