Bullied Quaden Bayles‘ family have rejected the $700,000 raised from a fundraiser set up by a US comedian, and want the money to be donated to charity instead.
Last week, an online fundraiser, ‘Let’s send a wonderful kid to Disneyland’, was set up by US comedian Brad Williams, who also has dwarfism after the boy’s mother shared an emotional video of him crying and saying he wanted to die after he was bullied at school.
The nine-year-old from Austrialia, who became a global sensation after the video went viral received an outpouring of support with more than 20,000 donors from across the world donating $723,000 to give Quaden’s family the special treat.
But it has now been revealed that Bayles’ family have turned down the trip, saying that the money should be donated to charity to help combat bullying and suicide.
‘But my sister said
‘So as much as we want to go to Disneyland, I think our community would far off benefit from that.’
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