Celebrity Humanitarians
February 7th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley and Maryam Fejvai in Humanitarian
Neil Young is going to be honored as a Humanitarian Award winner at this year’s Juno Awards, reports the Toronto Sun. He co-founded Farm Aid, a 1985 benefit concert that raised $2 million to help family farmers keep their land. He also recorded, with fellow Canadian musicians, the song Tears Are Not Enough to help rai...
Tags: Award winners, Haiti, Humanitarian, Neil Young, Sean Penn
January 26th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Humanitarian
The Hope for Haiti Now telethon has raised an awesome $58 million, a figure which is likely to increase as donations continue to pour in.
Today I spoke w...
Tags: Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation, Haiti, Hope For Haiti Now, Oxfam, Partners in Health, Red Cross, UN World Food Programme, UNICEF, Yele Haiti Foundation
January 20th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Humanitarian
The response to the crisis in Haiti has been an outpouring of warmth and support from people all around our world as our hearts go out to the people there. A...
Tags: CARE, CHF International, earthquake, Haiti, Humanitarian, hunger, Katrina, Migration, Partners in Health, Share Our Strength, United National Foundation
