An assailant shoved Alan Barnes, 67who is just four feet six inches tall and partially blindto the ground and demanded he hand over his money in Gateshead, a town in the north east of England. Barnes suffered a broken collar bone, but his attacker left empty handed.
Beautician Katie Cutler read about the attack on a British newspaper website and created a fundraising page via the GoFundMe website. She says that Alan is too scared to return home and she would like to raise £500 to help towards a new house.
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God bless you @WithLoveGracie, an incredible selfless thing you have done. Donating £15 to your fund! 🙂
Other hugely successful crowd-funding campaigns include over $5.4 million raised by Stephen Sutton, a teenager with incurable cancer who eventually passed away. Sutton gave the money to the Teenage Cancer Trust — the charity that supported him through his illness.
