Oprah is giving a big donation to help COVID-19 relief organizations. She’s giving a whopping $10 million dollars to aid various coronavirus charities.
The former talk show host revealed on Instagram that she’s going to give a million-dollar donation to the charity America’s Food Fund (AFF), and nine million dollars will be distributed to other various coronavirus relief funds.
AFF was founded by Leonardo DiCaprio, Apple and the Ford Foundation and others and is focused on food insecurity.
During her AppleTV+ series Oprah Talks COVID-19, she surprised Chef José Andrésand the CEO of Feeding America Claire Babineaux-Fontenot with her million-dollar donation to America’s Food Fund and told the two, “I know I can trust my money in your hands.”
She also revealed that the rest of her $10 million donation would be going “to help Americans during this pandemic in cities across the country and in areas where I grew up.” Winfrey grew up in Mississippi and Tennessee.