With 130 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, MrBeast is one of the most popular content creators in recent years, and not just for his streams, but for what he achieves through them. Last Saturday, the young man whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson shared a video revealing that paid for cataract removal surgeries for 1,000 blind or nearly blind people.
MrBeast, the youtuber who spends millions every week to create his videos
He worked for it with Jeff Levenson, an eye surgeon from Jacksonville, Florida who regularly travels throughout Central and South America as a member of the Surgical Eye Expeditions organization, which offers free surgeries to legally blind people without health insurance. Dr. Levenson was the one who performed the first round of surgeries for the MrBeast campaign.
“More than half of the blindness in the world is due to cataracts, a 10-minute surgery that costs less than $100 in countries with scarce resources, and the cure forever”, explained Levenson to the magazine People.
The doctor also received cataract surgery at the time, and was struck by how bright and vivid the world was after that procedure. “But I was appalled by the idea that there is probably 200 million people in the world who suffer from cataracts and do not have access to surgery”.
When MrBeast called him, excited about the idea of doing thousand surgeries in different countries in three weeks, Levenson thought he was looking at a madman. She had never heard of him, it sounded like a kid’s idea, and she almost shut him down. “Good thing I didn’t.”
To find their patients, they contacted homeless shelters and free clinics in Florida. They gathered 40 people and operated on them in one day, from 07:00 to 18:00.
The initiative was extended to Mexico, Honduras, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brazil, Vietnam, Tonga, Kenya and Jamaica, among others. He cooperated with them SEE International, an NGO that provides free vision care. Thus they enlisted other surgeons and the thousand people to operate.
MrBeast’s video shows the emotion of the chosen people before and after the surgery. Some of them had been partially or totally blind from birth. Others were disabled after an accident. Children and older adults entered the project.
It was not the only thing they received. A teenager, Jeremiah, received a $50,000 fund to help him achieve his university studies, something he had thought he could not do. Another young man, who had believed that he could never drive, received a Tesla car as a gift. (AND)
Source: Eluniverso
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