Katy Perry competition: student raises almost $5,000 for losing school in Northern Territory
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A Victorian student has raised almost $5,000 for a primary school in the Northern Territory that missed out when Katy Perry chose an elite private school as the winner of a performing arts video competition.
The story of Clyde Fenton inspired Natasha Joyce, 39, to begin a crowd-funding campaign, which has raised several thousand dollars for the primary school through private donations and the campaign’s FundRazr page.
“Rather than moving to the next hashtag issue, I chose to act,” Joyce said. “Clyde Fenton having an arts program is a luxury that the school would normally never be able to consider and I wanted them to have some creative options open to them.”
Joyce puts in two to three hours each day running the project’s social media, processing donations and reaching out to media and potential donors.
I mean thats good and all, but wasnt the whole goal of the contest to reward the children? Theyre friggin kids that like Katy Perry, if where there their school was located was such a big factor then they shouldnt have been allowed to enter the competition then. I swear everyting is a problem
