Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson have donated $10 million to help establish a fund that will give direct cash assistance to Maui residents displaced by catastrophic wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes on the island, they said on Thursday.
The new effort, called the People’s Fund of Maui, is offering payments of $1,200 per month to adults whose homes were destroyed or made uninhabitable by the wildfires in Lahaina and Kula this month.
The assistance is available to both homeowners and renters, but not to property owners who do not live in homes they own.
“People being able to have their own agency, being able to make decisions for themselves about what they need and what their family needs — that’s our goal,” Ms. Winfrey added in a video on Instagram.
She promised that the public’s donations to the fund would go directly to victims.
Persons:
Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne Johnson, “, Mr, Johnson, —, ” Ms, Winfrey
Organizations:
People’s, of
Locations:
Maui, of Maui, Lahaina, Kula, Hawaii