Black TikToker Raises Over $280,000 For Homeless Man Battling Prostate Cancer

A Black TikToker has used her platform to assist increase over $280,000 for a homeless man battling prostate most cancers.

Within the video, which has now gone viral, TikToker @hustlanani, a university pupil named Sanai, was vlogging her journey to the grocery retailer when a homeless man requested if she might buy him some tea. Sanai went a step additional and requested the person, recognized as Alonzo, to affix her within the grocery retailer. Throughout this impromptu purchasing journey, he revealed that not solely was he residing at a church however shared that he was residing with most cancers and had no household. Of their chat, he additionally talked about his ache medicine, which Sanai made certain he had by taking him to a number of pharmacies to get it earlier than taking him to Starbucks to get the tea. Sanai then referred to as him a resort room for the night time and a few further money to eat with. Earlier than parting methods, Alonzo and Sanai swapped contact data.

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The video garnered thousands and thousands of views, which led Sanai to start out a GoFundMe to assist Alonzo. On the web page, Sanai wrote: “I’m planning to use the funds to make sure he has a place to live, new clothes, shoes, a bank account, doctor’s appointments, a phone, etc.” As of Friday afternoon, the marketing campaign raised $287,738, and he or she has since gotten him a mobile phone.

Sanai has shared a number of TikToks of her journey with Alonzo and mentioned on GoFundMe that she’s going to proceed documenting their encounters.

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