Amid a global pandemic, celebrities are taking every possible step to help frontline workers and those whose lives have been deeply impacted. Singer The Weeknd has stepped forward to donate $ 1 million to MusiCares and her hometown coronavirus relief fund, frontline workers for the Scarborough Health Network. It has been divided between the two funds with $ 500.00.
“I grew up in Scarborough and felt it was important to give back to the community that raised me during the difficult times of this pandemic,” The Weeknd, also known as Abel Tesfaye, said via Variety. The main tabloid newspaper also reported: “He also retrieved the line of themed masks for his company XO, with all proceeds from sales of The Weeknd XO facial masks being donated to the aid of COVID-19, with the artist matching every dollar raised According to the announcement, the donation is an important gift to the health network’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund, which now totals more than $ 2.7 million. ”
In early June, the singer donated $ 500,000 that was divided between the Global Black Lives Matter Network and the Colin Kaepernick Camp Legal Defense Initiative. He made another $ 100,000 donation to National Bail Out.
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