People in Ireland are supporting a GoFundMefundraiser for Native American families during the coronavirus pandemic. They’re being inspired to donate by an act of kindness more than 170 years go and now they’re paying it forward. Back in 1847, the Choctaw tribe raised $170 to send to people in Ireland who were starving during the potato famine.
The Choctaw people had struggled 16 years earlier when they lost thousands of tribe members to disease and starvation while on the Trail of Tears. So they wanted to show their support to those suffering in Ireland and now people in Ireland are returning the favor.
According to Ethel Branch, organizer of the fundraiser for the Navajo and Hopi communities, Irish people have donated about half a million dollars so far. "From Ireland, 170 years later, the favor is returned!" a message from one donor reads. "To our Native American brothers and sisters in your moment of hardship."
Source:The Telegraph
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