Oprah Winfrey, founder of Harpo Productions, has announced that she and actor Dwayne Johnson have committed $10 million to a relief fund they created that will provide direct monthly payments to residents of the Hawai‘ian island of Maui who have been affected by the recent wildfires.

The People’s Fund of Maui, a fund of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, will provide $1,200 a month to eligible Maui residents who lost their primary residence in the recent fires that devastated the communities of Lahaina and Kula. According to Winfrey—who lives part-time on Maui—the fund will operate “for as long as we can, certainly as long as six months.” Johnson, whose mother was born in Hawai‘i, spent part of his childhood there.

Winfrey was inspired to create the fund by the example of Dolly Parton, whose Dollywood Foundation raised and distributed more than $8 million to residents of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, following a wildfire in 2016. “I’m calling on all of you Insiders who’ve asked me how you can help,” wrote Winfrey on her lifestyle blog. “We appreciate your prayers. We also would much appreciate a donation....This isn’t going to solve all the problems, but it certainly will help to be a bridge in people’s lives at this moment. As I’ve gone around to shelters and talked to people about what they need, they don’t need a lot of red tape. They just need to be able to have access to funds, and so that’s what this fund is intended to do.”

Other recent disaster relief funding includes a $1 million grant from the Taube Philanthropies to the Hawai‘i Community Foundation’s (HCF) Maui Strong Fund; grants totaling $1 million from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to HCF, the Brother’s Brother Foundation, and Maui Preparatory Academy; and nearly $7 million raised by Maui United Way from 31,000 donors.

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