Janitor Who Hasn’t Seen His Family In 30 Years Gets An Incredible Surprise From College Hockey Team

For the last 25-years, Minasie Theophilis has been working at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, as a janitor. Every student and athlete in the college loves this person.

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Minasie is originally from Ethiopia and joined the college as a student. So he has not had any chance to visit his loved ones for the past 30 years. Sadly, Minasie missed his mom’s death and was not able to return home for her funeral.

Augsburg Men’s Hockey team came to know about his condition and they decided to help him. On March 14, they created a GoFundMe page to raise money for sending him home. The target was $3000 and they achieved it with in a day.

The heartwarming video shows the team gives Minasie the check of $5000.

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