MrBeast defends Ghana village project while highlighting charitable work in Greenville
MrBeast answered criticism that his $10 million Ghana village ignored his hometown, noting his nonprofit has already delivered millions of meals in Greenville, North Carolina.
A recent video shows MrBeast’s nonprofit building a $10 million “self-sustaining” village in Ghana with housing, a school, clinic, water and solar infrastructure to combat illegal child labor. An X comment pointed out the poverty rate of about 25 percent in his hometown of Greenville, North Carolina, and asked why he had not directed more aid there. In response, the creator said his 501(c) organization, Beast Philanthropy, has already provided tens of millions of meals to Americans, many of them in the Greenville area, and that listing all local initiatives would be impossible in a single tweet.
The Ghana project includes facilities for over 300 students, teacher housing, a marketplace and five-year free school meals. MrBeast’s broader charitable record also features the Beast Pantry food-distribution model, the #TeamTrees and #TeamSeas environmental campaigns, cataract and hearing-aid surgeries for 1,000 people each, and disaster relief efforts such as recent aid to flood-hit Nepal.
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