Nobel winner Geoffrey Hinton has donated half of winnings to Indigenous water charity
Oct 28, 2024 | 6:55 PM
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TORONTO — Canada’s newest Nobel Prize recipient says he’s donated half his share of the award to a charity training Indigenous communities in how to develop and provide access to safe water systems.
The charity given a portion of Geoffrey Hinton’s winnings is Water First, an organization based in Creemore, Ont.
Hinton doesn’t have a history with the organization but says he felt compelled to make a sizeable donation because he hears land acknowledgements at many events.
While he thinks it’s good to remind people who first lived on the land they are on, he says such actions don’t do much to stop Indigenous kids, for example, from getting diarrhea from unsafe water sources.
