{"id":219741,"date":"2021-04-06T01:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-weeknd-donates-1m-to-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:11:21","slug":"the-weeknd-donates-1m-to-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-weeknd-donates-1m-to-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Weeknd Donates $1M To Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Weeknd Donates $1M To Ethiopia<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1300912185-e1613170704510-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"The Weeknd Donates $1M To Ethiopia\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\">\n<span>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy  js-entry-text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nThe Weeknd is feeling charitable once again. This time, The \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d is giving back to his homeland of Ethiopia. The Weeknd announced he was donating $1 million in food aid on Sunday (April 4) amid Ethiopia\u2019s government conflict currently taking place in Addis Ababa and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ethiopia-conflict\/ethiopia-says-eritrean-troops-have-started-withdrawing-from-tigray-idUSKBN2BR05A?il=0\">the Tigray region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart breaks for my people of Ethiopia as innocent civilians ranging from small children to the elderly are being senselessly murdered and entire villages are being displaced out of fear and destruction,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI will be donating $1 million to provide 2 million meals through the United Nations World Food Programme and encourage those who can to please give as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; 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font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CNQBL4ihjUU\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\">A post shared by The Weeknd (@theweeknd)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>An <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/05\/973624991\/9-things-to-know-about-the-unfolding-crisis-in-ethiopias-tigray-region\"><em>NPR<\/em> report<\/a> estimates that more than two million people have been displaced due to the conflict which has resulted in thousands of deaths. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/26\/world\/middleeast\/ethiopia-tigray-ethnic-cleansing.html\"><em>The New York Times\u00a0<\/em><\/a>believes the Ethiopian government is\u00a0\u201cleading a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both of The Weeknd\u2019s \u2014 born Abel Tesfaye \u2014 parents (Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye) were born in Ethiopia and immigrated to Canada before their son was born.<\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd pledged money to an array of causes throughout 2020 and beyond. He donated $1 million to COVID-19 relief and then another $500,000 to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> justice organizations such as Black Lives Matter, Colin Kaepernick\u2019s Know Your Rights camp and National Bailout. He also pledged $300,000 to\u00a0Global Aid for Lebanon\u00a0in 2020 as well.<\/p>\n<p>To close out March, The Weeknd announced he was joining the NFT (Non-Fungible Token) <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> and has raised a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/apr\/05\/the-weeknd-donates-1m-in-food-aid-to-ethiopia-amid-senseless-conflict\">reported $2.2 million already in sales<\/a> with one for $490,000 being linked to an unreleased song.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Michael Saponara\"><br \/>\nby Michael Saponara\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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This time, The \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d is giving back to his homeland of Ethiopia. The Weeknd announced he was donating $1 million in food aid on Sunday (April 4) amid Ethiopia\u2019s government conflict currently taking place in Addis Ababa and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1300912185-e1613170704510-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}