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.
The fund aims to “put money directly in the hands of those individuals most affected,” Mr. Johnson, the actor and former wrestler known as “The Rock” who is partly of Polynesian descent and grew up for a time in Hawaii, said in a stateme
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