11,000 people donating $550,000, for an average donation of $50 a person, just like that.
#QUENTIN QUARANTINO FULL#
The funds for the first planeload were raised in just 38 minutes.Īnd in a little over an hour, people had donated the full amount needed for two planeloads. Through a GoFundMe campaign, the incredible online community built by meme artist/fundraiser extraordinaire Tommy Marcus (aka showed up big time. The money for the mission is coming from everyday people who care and want to do something to help. (Looking at it another way, it costs $1500 per life saved, which seems a lot less daunting.) The hope was to get at least one planeload of people out, but mission operators were pushing for two or more. The cost is the only real hangup, as each plane full of passengers (including fuel, crew, security, clearances, etc.) costs $225,000. Two piloted aircraft are ready and prepared to go in within the next day to bring the people on the manifest to a country of asylum. The planes, being supplied by a defense related products trading company, have pilots who are dedicated to carrying out this humanitarian mission. Ford and Kraft have been working together for about a week to get specific people on the flight manifest who have been thoroughly vetted and known to be targets of the Taliban. She is coordinating with people on the ground to get them out. military veterans working in media and entertainment, also has connections to Afghans on the Taliban kill list.
#QUENTIN QUARANTINO PROFESSIONAL#
Karen Kraft, an Army veteran who runs VME, a professional association of U.S.
Ford was deployed in Afghanistan during his active duty time and has extensive knowledge of how things work on the ground there, as well as connections to the people in need of rescue. veteran with 24 years of service within the Army's Special Forces, runs the private special missions company Raven Advisory, LLC. Several collaborators are coordinating the mission. Via Instagram / quentin.quarantino The Quentin Quaratino page was started by 25-year-old Tommy Marcus, a University of Michigan graduate based in New York City, in the early and confusing days of lockdown. The mission includes two planes, deep connections on the ground in Afghanistan, and the logistical know-how to get a group of 300+ women's rights activists, translators and their families, as well as other high-value targets who are in imminent danger out of the country. military and special operations personnel to get hundreds of people on the Taliban's kill list out of the country as soon as possible.
And that's happening, right now, on the internet and on the ground in Afghanistan.Ī humanitarian mission has been pulled together by former U.S.
We know there are so many people we can't help.
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