Photo draws US$1.2m for kids' Harvard entry
School principal's quote inspires lensman to feature pupil on blog; online appeal raises fund for the boy, classmates
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IT began as a heart-warming photograph of a New York schoolboy that went viral. Now an online fund has raised US$1.2 million to send him and his classmates to Harvard.
When Vidal Chastanet, 13, bumped into photographer Brandon Stanton in one of the most troubled neighbourhoods in New York, neither had any idea what would happen next. Mr Stanton runs a wildly popular blog with 12 million Facebook followers that profiles pictures of ordinary New Yorkers and captions them with a short quote summing up their life.
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