Moston Chef food truck 'set on fire' by 'racist' raises £50,000 in 24 hours
David Kamson, owner and chef of Moston Suya was left near suicidal after his food truck van was burned down to the ground in a heinous hate-crime. After coming to Manchester with £70 in his pocket 4 years ago, he saved £5000 to upscale his black owned business. A local then began tormenting him, which would soon lead to these heart-breaking, then heart-warming acts.
Moston is a takeaway based in Manchester. Suya is a spicy shish kebab which is a popular food item in West Africa. It is traditionally prepared by the Hausa people of Northern Nigeria & Cameroon.
Every Wednesday, he would cook free food for homeless people.
Sadly, after being hit with racist abuse for months, on Tuesday, David says he found out his food van appeared to have been torched.
"I came back from York on Monday night and walked past my trailer and it was still there," David said.
"The next morning I went to the Post Office and the guys in there asked me what had happened to my trailer.
"They told me that it had been on fire and that it had burnt to the ground.
"When I saw it, cried for almost five hours."
David recalls the events in an Instagram post
His friend also started a Go Fund Me for him. In one day he has raised over £50,000 https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-david-kamson-get-his-food-van-back?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all
High profile celebrities and influencers reached out to give their blessings to Moston Suya. Namely, Love Island contestant Mike Boateng and winner Amber Rose-Gill, Krept and Konan, and Kyle Richards from the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
At the time of writing, (24/09/2020) the GoFundMe for Moston Suya has reached
£51,155.
He is truly blessed and is making racists sick! Yes!
David Kamson has left this message thanking all of his supporters
In a heartfelt speech David says "God bless you all. I am going to promise you one thing. The money from the community will serve this community back; and that is my promise. I will make sure I provide good and better quality service and food to you people. I will also make sure that, the ones that cannot get much around you should come to me and I will feed you all. Now God bless you."
What a selfless man. It will be amazing to see him blessed, booked and busy.
It’s been so heart-warming to see that during his devastation us Brits came through and supported this man and supported his UK black business.
#EndRacismNow #SupportUKBlackBusinesses #UKBlackOwned #BlackLivesMatter
I pray for these people who have so much hate in their bodies they can’t make something positive for themselves. Putting so much energy into destroying honest people’s achievements.. So sad.. Moston is an area of well dare I say not much developments but the council is trying.. What is wrong with human beings… God made us all to live in harmony and respect each others differences. have they watched the animals how cats, dogs, birds etc can get along together. Blessings to you all with ambition and love in your heart.