Heartbreakingly Wonderful: 9-Year-Old Girl Posthumously Raises $1.2M For Charity [VIDEO]

1:00 pm, July 28th | by Amy Tennery

Got the Kleenex handy?

Rachel, a girl living in the U.S., decided for her ninth birthday she would eschew presents, instead asking friends and family to make a donation to charity: water, a non-profit that provides clean water access to the disadvantaged. She fell short of her $300 goal, raising $220, but pledged she would “try harder” the next year. A month later, Rachel died in a car accident.

But Rachel’s fundraising dream wasn’t over.

After her story became national news, charity: water was flooded with donations in her name. In total, 30,000 people donated more than $1.2 million.

A year after her death, Rachel’s mother traveled to Ethiopia to see how that money changed one community’s life. The resulting footage is tremendously moving:

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Most charities are complete scams. Everything from the “charity” people skimming off the money for themselves to the unregulated way they choose where the money goes. If I knew someone at the charity, I could just suddenly become “disadvantaged.” What does that mean? Who decides. A fool and their money soon go separate ways. A fool that has some guilt-complex even faster.

And this money is being sent OUT of the country. I would tell any “charity” trying to help Africa, like pouring water in the ocean, to get stuffed.

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