Sanai Graden (21) met a homeless person and took care of him. She bought him medicine, took him to the hotel and initiated a mega fundraiser. But his reaction surprised her.
A homeless man in Washington D.C. ran away when a 21-year-old student wanted to give him the equivalent of 372,000 euros. On TikTok, the student, Sanai Graden, shows how she met Alonzo H. in January.
Touched by his fate, she first bought him medication and then even covered the cost of his overnight stay in a hotel. Graden used the TikTok fame these actions earned her to launch a fundraising campaign for Hebron.
Graden collected the equivalent of 372,116 euros on the GoFundMe donation platform. Even after it became public that Hebron had committed a violent act against a homeless woman in the past, Graden publicly stood by him.
“I wanted to change his whole life,” Graden told The Washington Post. Hebron, however, increasingly avoided her.
He used up the vouchers she gave him in no time. He soon lost the new cell phone she bought him, so she could hardly reach him anymore. Although her willingness to help became more and more helpful, at some point he stopped calling her back.
As a result, she fell into depression and stopped taking care of the internship for which she had actually moved to the city, says Graden.
All she ever wanted was for H. to find an apartment and receive medical care. It was never about herself.
“I can’t force him to do certain things,” Graden says. “At the end of the day, he’s a grown man.”
At the same time, Graden collected the equivalent of 23,246 euros for herself from her donors. According to the GoFundMe donation platform, the money was intended to cover costs that Graden would incur in accompanying Hebron.
When asked by the Washington Post, neither Graden nor her lawyer wanted to answer what would happen to this sum.
In any case, the experience “changed her life forever,” Graden says in her latest TikTok post. “[Before] I was a nobody!”
Now she is famous and successful. She will now concentrate on completing her studies and keeping her followers updated.
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