“I was just like, ‘I don’t know what’s happening,’ but I was just sitting there watching the numbers go up. It was absolutely crazy,” said the 23-year-old, who had spent almost all her life as an undocumented migrant in the U.S. before resettling in Canada with her family in 2016. However, a week before her admission deadline of this Friday to show Oxford the tuition money, she had only raised a little over $8,000. As of Tuesday, more than 320 donors pledged more than $62,400 to support Khalid. “It may seem like just an act of kindness for some people, but for me, it means the world.

Source: thestar August 03, 2021 20:04 UTC