![]() ![]() ![]() “That turned out to be perfect…the season of giving. It was a “what I did over the summer” tale that didn’t make air until the first week of December, as families prepared for the Christmas holiday. “When I began the show, I wasn’t sure I was going to bring it up,” O’Donnell said, thinking he’d keep the charity separate from the show “as a private thing that I do.”īut months after the show’s launch, O’Donnell decided he would share his personal story. ![]() That unique connection between viewers and K.I.N.D. “There’s a tremendous amount of goodwill out there in this audience,” O’Donnell said. Many MSNBC viewers shared O’Donnell’s instantaneous desire to help. “And that kid who was trying to write on a cement floor is suddenly on a wooden surface, writing.” has raised millions without glitzy galas or high profile fundraisers–just O’Donnell occasionally taking a moment on his show to mention his visits to Malawi, and to show viewers what happens when a child who’s never had a desk suddenly has one. “The audience has continued to surprise me every year,” O’Donnell said in an interview with TVNewser Monday evening. (Kids In Need of Desks) fund, has reached a milestone: $10 million dollars in donations–almost all of it from MSNBC viewers. On MSNBC Monday night, O’Donnell told viewers the charity inspired by that trip, the K.I.N.D. “I knew instantaneously I wanted to help,” O’Donnell said. Visiting a school in the capital city of Lilongwe, O’Donnell was profoundly moved to see students in classroom after classroom doing their work while sitting on cement floors–the school had no desks. Five years ago, before he launched his MSNBC show, The Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell visited the southeastern African country of Malawi. ![]()
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