This is not the first time that the 17-year-old climate activist is donating her prize money to charitable projects. In April, she donated the $100,000 she received…
Climate activist Greta Thunberg melted the hearts of social media users after she announced that she would donate the more than $1 million that she received as part of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity from a Portuguese philanthropic organisation. Thunberg posted a video on her social media saying that all the money will go to charitable projects. The activist said the first batch of money, worth $114,000, will be given to SOS Amazonia to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic in the indigenous territories of the Amazon, while another $114,000 will go to an environmental organisation campaigning for making ecocide an international crime.
Starting with giving €100.000 to the SOS Amazonia Campaign led by Fridays For Future Brazil to tackle Covid-19 in the Amazon, and €100.000 to the Stop Ecocide Foundation to support their work to make ecocide an international crime.
