Greta Thunberg donates €1 million to groups fighting the climate crisis
Greta Thunberg has donated €1m to projects and organisations working to end the climate crisis.
The 17-year-old was awarded the first Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, a Portuguese human rights award, which comes with a seven-figure cheque. Thunberg announced that the prize money would be shared between different groups, with a particular emphasis on projects supporting people in the Global South.
“I am incredibly honoured and extremely grateful,” said Thunberg, “this means a lot to me and I hope that it will help me do more good in the world.
“The price money [...] is more money than I can even begin to imagine - all the prize money will be donated through my foundation to different organisations and projects who are working to help people on the frontlines affected by the climate crisis and the ecological crisis, especially in the Global South.”
She added that the money would also be shared among groups “fighting for a sustainable world and who are fighting to protect nature and the natural world.”
The first organisation to receive funding from Thunberg will be SOS Amazonia. It is a campaign led by Fridays For Future Brazil which is helping to end the COVID-19 outbreak in the Amazon, particularly among Indigenous communities.
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