Christina Yuna Lee’s household launches fundraising marketing campaign to maintain her legacy alive

• The relations of homicide sufferer Christina Yuna Lee have launched a fundraising marketing campaign on GoFundMe to continekeep her legacy alive by funding initiatives she advocated.
• Lee, who was fatally stabbed by a stranger inside her personal residence in New York Metropolis’s Chinatown on Feb.13, supported a number of causes whereas she was alive.
• Managed by Lee’s sister, Angela Lee, the fundraising marketing campaign will assist organizations and areas such because the Prospect Park Alliance, Womankind, Deliberate Parenthood, Elizabeth Avenue Backyard and SafeWalks.
• “Christina’s demise has shaken us to our core,” the marketing campaign famous. “Nothing will give her again to us. However along with your assist, we will make the 35 years she spent on Earth imply one thing for generations to return.”
• The marketing campaign’s preliminary funding objective of $100,000 was surpassed in lower than 24 hours and has since been elevated to $300,000 “to determine the Christina Yuna Lee Memorial Fund, to assist these organizations and others sooner or later.”

The household of Korean American homicide sufferer Christina Yuna Lee has began a web based fundraising marketing campaign to make sure her identify and legacy are remembered by future generations. 

The 35-year-old, who was fatally stabbed by a stranger inside her personal residence in New York Metropolis’s Chinatown on Feb.13, was described on the marketing campaign’s GoFundMe web page as an lively advocate for causes akin to girls’s rights.

Managed by Lee’s sister, Angela Lee, the marketing campaign goals to “honor Christina’s legacy and values” by funding organizations and areas that she supported whereas she was alive.

Contributions to the marketing campaign will permit Lee’s household to assist Deliberate Parenthood, a company that she actively supported as “a champion of each girl’s proper to decide on.” In the meantime, supporting Womankind will assist present for the wants of feminine victims of home violence, sexual violence and human trafficking, amongst different crimes. 

A portion of the marketing campaign’s contributions will go to SafeWalks, a volunteer group that helps New Yorkers who really feel unsafe going house by pairing them with a companion. The contributions will assist SafeWalks “increase to different neighborhoods within the metropolis and supply sooner response instances.”

The marketing campaign’s GoFundMe web page additionally acknowledged that Lee “believed within the energy of inexperienced and open areas as alternatives for self-realization and exploration.” She reportedly thought-about Elizabeth Avenue Backyard close to her house as “her private oasis” which she visited recurrently “to learn, sketch, take heed to music, and listen to poetry.”

Lee’s household aspires to position a memorial bench and a tree in her identify at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, the place she would go “to meditate, collect with family members, and discover peace in its vast inexperienced expanse.”

Kenneth Takanami, one in every of Lee’s co-workers who shared the GoFundMe marketing campaign on his Instagram account, described her as an advocate in opposition to anti-Asian hate, as NextShark beforehand reported. 

The marketing campaign’s preliminary funding objective of $100,000 was surpassed in lower than 24 hours and has since been elevated to $300,000 in order that Lee’s household can “set up the Christina Yuna Lee Memorial Fund,” permitting them to fund the “organizations and others sooner or later.”

As of this writing, the marketing campaign has raised over $160,000. Its GoFundMe description ends with a name to motion, urging potential donors to assist with protecting Lee’s legacy alive: “Please take into account participating on this collective effort to honor Christina’s reminiscence and to assist stop this tragedy from occurring to anybody else. Nothing will give her again to us. However along with your assist, we will make the 35 years she spent on Earth imply one thing for generations to return.”

 

Featured Picture through Angela Yujin Lee (GoFundMe)

 

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