Nets star Kyrie Irving – well-known for his generosity – donated $22,000 to pay for a young student to be able to stay at Howard University. As is his wont, his charity was done quietly and without fanfare, his camp declining comment.
Destiny Thompson, a Civil Engineering major and Mathematical minor from New Jersey, needed $6,000 to cover tuition at the D.C.-based historically black school, so she started a GoFundMe to raise the funds. Irving, a fellow New Jersey native from West Orange, gave that and more, donating $22,000 on Monday.
Almost immediately after, Thompson – who appeared to be at work at Walmart – took to Facebook to post a video.
“I cried just a lot of tears,” Thompson said in the video. “I’m at work, y’all. I don’t understand, like, I can’t really wrap my head around how like generous people can be. I am so thankful for everybody that shared it, everybody that had liked, commented and gave me encouraging words, and just kind of helped me keep going and essentially.
Kyrie Irving made a massive donation to help a Howard University student pay her tuition — and more. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST Photo“I’m just so, so happy, and I’m so thankful. I never thought in a million years that anybody would give me anything, and I’m so super grateful. And I want to say thank you 1,000 times for blessing me like this Mr. Kyrie Irving. I really don’t know. I’m in shock still. I’m at work wiping down registers.”
