For those who have been keeping up to date on world events, you probably know that at the moment, Greece is in some serious financial trouble and come Sunday, the country will vote in a national referendum to see if they will accept or reject austerity measures that will help keep the country financially solvent.However what if the rest of the world could just chip in and pay Greece’s debt off? Wouldn’t that be a more straightforward and efficient solution? Well that’s one a man in London by the name of Thom Feeney is trying to do when he launched an Indiegogo campaign in which he is trying to raise a whopping 1.6 billion euros that could potentially save the country.
According to the campaign’s description, “All this dithering over Greece is getting boring. European ministers flexing their muscles and posturing over whether they can help the Greek people of not. Why don’t we the people just sort it instead? The European Union is home to 503 million people, if we all just chip in a few Euro then we can get Greece sorted and hopefully get them back on track soon. Easy.”
Now we’re not sure if this campaign will actually be able to raise the amount necessary or come even close. After all it’s rarely we see crowdfunding campaigns cross the million threshold, let alone billions! That being said, Feeney has promised rewards to those who backed his campaign which he feels Greece will be more than happy to oblige should the campaign be a success.
While we choose to remain skeptical, we have to applaud Feeney’s attempts at doing something about it, and if you’d like to help out, head on over to its Indiegogo page for the details on how to contribute.
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