Photo: Cameron Mofid
Dallas Mavericks point guard Kyrie Irving has donated $45,000 to a fundraiser that benefits children in two communities in West Africa.
The fundraiser was started by 22-year-old traveler Cameron Mofid, (above with kids) who initially set a goal of $5k to help build a new orphanage in Ghana and improve a school and fund supplies for its students in Nigeria.
This campaign has now topped $65,000 in donations to help children in the cities of Accra in Ghana and Lagos in Nigeria.
'I just got back from backpacking in West Africa and set up a GoFundMe to raise funds for a school in a slum in Nigeria and an orphanage in Ghana that I visited,' Mofid told DailyMail.com
'We raised over $10,000 in the first week with the support of over 200 people and the fundraiser started trending. Yesterday, I woke up to a $45,000 donation from basketball star Kyrie Irving.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nba/article-11800379/Kyrie-Irving-dona...
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