Canadian
lottery winner Tom Crist is still busy giving away his winnings to good causes,
but admits the amount of requests he receives is beginning to take a toll.
"It's
very tough, I feel bad," Crist said. "I had to quit reading the letters
that I got . . . they were bringing up memories that I went through so it was
really tough for me to read them."
Crist won
the Canada Lotto Max Jackpot in May 2013, and vowed to give away the entire C$40 million to charity. One of his first donations was to charity trust he
established in memory of his wife, Janice, who died of cancer in 2011.
"You
feel good when you can do something, when you can help a family out that needs
help, financial help," Crist said. "You can't help the whole world,
but we are going to help as many people as we can."
Crist has
already donated generous amounts of money to cancer sufferers, and gave C$1.2 million to the Tom Baker Cancer Centre—a place of particular importance to
Crist because they cared for his wife before her death.
More
recently, Crist invested several million dollars in Kidoodle TV—an online TV
portal that provides children with safe entertainment in an environment parents
can control.
Any returns on his investment will also be funneled into his
charitable foundation and he already has a meeting scheduled with the Alberta
Cancer Board, later this month, to discuss where the next donation will go.
