A Taylor Swift giveaway is raising thousands of dollars for a mental health-care charity in St. John’s, N.L. — all thanks to a big donation and some kindness from a total stranger.
Kristi Allan, an outspoken mental health-care advocate in Newfoundland and Labrador, told CTV National News she managed to snag two tickets to a 2024 Taylor Swift concert in Toronto.
Though she’s a huge Swift fan, Allan donated the tickets to the Jacob Puddister Memorial Foundation in St. John’s, which provides counselling and other mental health supports to young people in Newfoundland and Labrador.
A raffle for the pair of tickets is on track to raise almost $40,000 — money that will help the foundation hire another counsellor part time.
“In 2020 I started going to regular therapy and it saved my life,” Allan …