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NBA Basketball players Other Sport Figures donating to disaster in Haiti
Jan 24th
Alonzo Mourning (Miami Heat Star) and fellow NBA star Dwyane Wade are partnering to organize the “Athletes Relief Fund for Haiti” to encourage athletes to donate and help Haiti earthquake victims. The funds that Mourning and Wade raise will go to the Project Medishare, a charity that is helping with the relief on the ground in Haiti. Mourning flew to Haiti to help with the recovery effort. He spent time in a makeshift hospital, assisting medical personnel.
Many other athletes and celebrities have also geared up to help Haiti relief effort. The Sixers big man’s Samuel Dalembert Foundation is accepting donations to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick and Washington Redskins are part of the recovery effort.
Mourning is not a stranger to grief and desperation. He was suffering from a life-threatening kidney disease and required a kidney transplant, which he finally got in 2003. Mourning has been involved in charity work for over a decade now. His Alonzo Mourning Charity helps in the development of children and families living in at-risk situations and provides services that enhance the lives of youth in promise.
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Loading ...Wyclef Jean Provided a helping hand to the Haiti’s Earthquake
Jan 24th
Wyclef Jean performs at “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief”, on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 in New York. Wyclef Jean, a native son lift Friday evening’s despairing tone to one of hope and even revival.”Enough of this moping, man, let’s rebuild Haiti, let’s show ‘em how we do it where we come from!” Wyclef Jean, the singer and producer, shouted after singing the downbeat “Rivers of Babylon,” with a Haitian flag around his neck. Jean showcased the resilient spirit of a nation in the midst of catastrophe. On Jan. 12, a powerful earthquake struck the already impoverished country, killing an estimated 200,000 people, displacing many more and reducing much of Haiti to ruins.
Some facts about Jean Wyclef: The son of a Nazarene pastor,Wyclef briefly attended Eastern Nazarene College, where his younger brother Sam graduated with a degree in history.
Wyclef moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York, when he was thirteen, before moving again to northern New Jersey. He worked briefly as a Burger King crew employee as a teenager, before he was fired. Jean has been a resident of Saddle River and South Orange, New Jersey. Jean, who regrets dropping out of college, has announced plans to attend Boston’s Berklee College of Music.
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