Gaiman to Read Cheesecake Factory Menu for Charity

As part of a fundraising campaign being organized by writer and comedian Sara Benincasa to benefit world refugees, bestselling author Neil Gaiman has agreed to do a live reading of the entire Cheesecake Factory menu if fans raise $500,000 for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Benincasa hopes to reach the funding goal by World Refugee Day on June 20, 2017 and notes that

According to UNHCR, “An unprecedented 65.3 million people around the world have been forced from home. Among them are nearly 21.3 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18.” Refugees are often denied basic rights such as education, healthcare, employment and freedom of movement. Neil’s been active on behalf of world refugees for years.

For more information, see the campaign on CrowdRise.