Controversial Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has donated $100,000 (£80,250) to charity to help fight coronavirus.
The 17-year-old has apparently given prize money she has won for her environmental work to Unicef, the United Nations (UN) children’s charity that is supposed to help vulnerable children in the developing world.
She said in a statement: “Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child rights crisis. It will affect all children, now and in the long term, but vulnerable groups will be impacted the most statement.”
The charity will use the donation to help support children affected by school closures and global lockdown restrictions.
Thunberg was awarded the prize money for her worldwide activism by Human Act Foundation, which is also donating $100,000 to Unicef’s coronavirus campaign.
Unicef said it will use donations to help tackle the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which include “food shortages, strained healthcare systems, violence and lost education”.
Thunberg has also been calling on governments to “tackle two crises at once” by continuing to fight “climate change” during the coronavirus crisis.
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