How the stars donate to charity
'14.04.2017'
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George Clooney
Clooney once visited South Sudan and was very impressed by this trip. He became the ideological author of a project to prevent crimes against humanity. In 2006, George and his father, Nick Clooney, filmed the documentary Journey to Darfur, a film that tells refugees about the horrors of the ethnic conflict in South Sudan.
A well-known actor throughout his career has been actively donating large sums to charity.
George Clooney is not only actively involved in the activities of large charitable organizations, but he also responds with pleasure to invitations to private projects. Natural disasters, famine, violence, animal rights and more.
Beyoncé
Beyoncé highlights such social injustices as black women's rights and gender equality. Her Documentary Short Lemonade includes performances of mother Treyvona Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. She also traveled to the humanitarian mission in Haiti in 2015 year.
Taylor Swift
Taylor is very generous in the matter of charity.
In 2016, she donated $ 1 to a million to flood victims in Louisiana. In addition, she gave $ 2 thousands to one of her fans to pay for college and donated $ 50 thousands to public schools in New York.
Lady Gaga
After an earthquake in Haiti in 2010, Gaga donated revenues from a concert in Radio City Music Hall in New York on tour Monster ball from 24 in January 2010 of the year, as well as income from its online store for the same day; the total amount of donations, according to the singer, was more than $ 500 thousand.
In February, 2012, Gaga, at Harvard University in Massachusetts, opened a charitable foundation Born This Waynamed after the album Born This Way. The foundation's program provides various support to young LGBT people.
Gaga is also involved in the AIDS campaign, educating young women about the danger of infection.
Rihanna
The famous singer has built a modern center of oncology and nuclear medicine for the treatment of breast cancer. Besides, Clara lionel foundation, a foundation that Rihanna created in 2012, in honor of her grandparents, offers scholarships to students from the Caribbean who study at a college in the United States.
Miley Cyrus
In 2014, Miley Cyrus founded the foundation Happy hippiewhich aims to provide basic needs and support homeless youth, the LGBT community and other vulnerable groups.
Oprah Winfrey
In 2011, Oprah won a special Oscar for her charitable work. The total amount spent by the famous TV presenter is about $ 50 million. The main areas were health and education development. Also Oprah with other stars actively participated in helping victims of the earthquake on the island of Haiti.
Leonardo DiCaprio
The famous actor founded the environmental protection fund. Engaged in charity work since 1998. Leonardo DiCaprio directed 2 short films on environmental issues, and in 2007 wrote and produced the documentary “The 11th Hour”, which tells about the problem of global warming.
DiCaprio has always donated large sums to rare animal protection funds. The annual charity party, which the actor organizes in Saint-Tropez, invariably collects dozens of stars and millions of dollars to protect animals and natural resources.
Sandra Bullok
American Sandra Bullock is the recipient of an honorary humanitarian award, which was presented to her for helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The actress twice donated $ 1 million to the Red Cross for the benefit of the victims of natural disasters.
