YouTube creator MrBeast makes a grand gesture to help cure 1,000 people’s blindness
The clip also captures the patients’ surprised and emotional reactions post-surgery as MrBeast gives them money.Donaldson, who’s known for performing big stunts that typically involve large cash giveaways, earned an estimated $54 million in 2021, which was, at the time, the highest earnings among YouTubers.
In September 2022, MrBeast’s team contacted Dr. Jeff Levenson, a Jacksonville-based ophthalmologist and surgeon, to help execute the initiative. Together they compiled a list of people who needed the surgery but were unable to fund it, Levenson told CNN.Levenson also put MrBeast’s team in contact with, an organization that seeks to provide eyecare services to those in need. The ophthalmologist serves as chief medical officer for the non-profit.
“If MrBeast can light a fire, and if we can get governmental and private support behind it, we can end half of all the blindness in the world,” Levenson shared. “Without all that much cost, and with incredible gains in human productivity and human potential.”
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