Quarantino explained that $550,000 can buy at least two airplanes full of people out of Kabul. The funds raised by this GoFundMe page will be focused precisely on evacuating many of these people, or groups of families, and other asylum seekers out of the country to safely. Meanwhile, other individuals and groups have also been targeted by the extremist group, such as activists, journalists, human rights lawyers, and artists that have spoken up against the Taliban over the years are all “at imminent risk of being executed by the Taliban.” Unfortunately, with the fall of the current Afghan government, the extremist group known as the Taliban managed to quickly take over the country once more, forcing people – mostly women and children – fearing for their lives due to the Taliban’s vicious attacks on the innocent. Quarantino listed his monetary goal at $6,050,000, but since donations started rolling in from its 117.6k donors, it has managed to raise $6,866,130 so far, and that number is still rising.Īlthough the United States military has been in Afghanistan for at least two decades, they have had long-term plans to withdraw from the country. Incredibly, when it first launched, the page managed to raise $550,000 in a span of two hours alone. Less than a week ago, Quarantino posted his intentions of setting up a GoFundMe pageto raise funds to fly helpless Afghans out of the now Taliban-run country. The New Yorker, whose Instagram page is known for his memes and other news posts, decided to use his platform to help those in need at this time of crisis.
A man known to the world as Quentin Quarantino, not to be mistaken for director Quentin Tarantino, has managed to raise more than $6 million to help rescue Afghans and fly them out of the country.