Actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis attend the sport between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics at Dodger Stadium on April 11, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
Jayne Kamin-oncea | Getty Photos
Actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have raised greater than $34 million in donations for humanitarian support to Ukraine and non permanent housing for Ukrainian refugees, in response to the couple’s GoFundMe web page.
Kunis was born in Ukraine in 1983 and moved to the USA when she was 8 years outdated. “Ukrainians are proud and courageous individuals who deserve our assist in their time of want,” she writes on the web page.
The funds raised by Kutcher and Kunis, who’re married, might be donated to the philanthropic arms of two Silicon Valley darlings: logistics start-up Flexport and housing rental large Airbnb.
“Flexport.org is organizing shipments of reduction provides to refugee websites in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova,” write Kutcher and Kunis. “Airbnb.org is offering free, short-term housing to refugees fleeing Ukraine.”
Kutcher and Kunis created the fundraising web page March 3 and made a private donation of $3 million. Since then, greater than 65,000 donors have contributed to the marketing campaign.
The checklist of prime contributors contains a number of the world’s wealthiest people. Billionaire Larry Ellison, the chairman of Oracle, has donated $5 million. Silicon Valley personal fairness agency DST International contributed $3 million, and the household basis of DST companion Yuri Milner gave $2.5 million.
One other $2.5 million donation got here from the household of famend Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway. Trend mannequin Karlie Kloss and her husband, Josh Kushner, donated $250,000 by way of their basis. Kushner is a enterprise capital investor and the brother of former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
“We’re overwhelmed with gratitude for this help,” Kutcher mentioned in an Instagram publish March 17. “Our collective effort will present a softer touchdown for thus many individuals as they forge forward into their way forward for uncertainty.”
