California prisoner donates earnings from 13-cent hourly wage to Gaza
by Maya Yang from US news | The Guardian on (#6K2BB)
Donors raise more than $100,000 for man who gave his $17.74 paycheck for 136.50 hours of work to relief efforts in Gaza
Donors have raised more than $100,000 for an incarcerated man in the US who, earning 13 cents an hour in a California prison doing janitorial and porter work, donated his paycheck of $17.74 to Gaza relief efforts.
Last month, Los Angeles-based filmmaker Justin Mashouf who has been in correspondence with the 56-year old man - known only by the name Hamza - shared photos on social media of Hamza's October time log and a check of $17.74 with the words, California department of corrections and rehabilitation."
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