British shoe seller tries to crowdfund Greek bailout

London

GREECE was on the edge of a deadline to pay 1.5 billion euros (S$2.2 billion) back to the International Monetary Fund, and a crowdfunding campaign called Greek Bailout Fund wanted to help.

The campaign, set up on the fundraising website Indiegogo, had raised more than 487,000 euros by early Wednesday - not an insignificant amount of money, but also not even one per cent of the campaign's goal, with six days to go.

The campaign was started by an Indiegogo user named Thom Feeney, who identifies himself as a 29-year-old working in a shoe shop in Britain. "Let's just get Greece sorted," Mr Feeney …