{"id":45939,"date":"2020-08-13T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-weeknd-donates-300000-to-beirut-explosion-relief-effort\/"},"modified":"2020-08-13T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:57:00","slug":"the-weeknd-donates-300000-to-beirut-explosion-relief-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-weeknd-donates-300000-to-beirut-explosion-relief-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Weeknd donates $300,000 to Beirut explosion relief effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The Weeknd donates $300,000 to Beirut explosion relief effort<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 13, 2020 |<\/span> 7:57am |<\/span> Updated August 13, 2020 | 7:57am<\/span><\/p>\n

\n The Weeknd has been on a philanthropy bender in recent months, with major donations to coronavirus relief, Black Lives Matter and social<\/a> justice organizations \u2014 and on Wednesday he donated $300,000 to Global Aid for Lebanon to assist victims of the horrific explosion in the country\u2019s capital of Beirut on Aug. 4, which killed more than 200 people and destroyed a central area of the city.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made on social media by his manager, Wassim \u201cSal\u201d Slaiby, who with his wife, Rima Fakih, has been mobilizing relief efforts for the country; he also thanked Live Nation for its $50,000 donation. Slaiby and Fakih (a former Miss USA) were both born in Lebanon; he emigrated to The Weeknd\u2019s home country of Canada as a teenager and she to the U.S. as a child. Earlier this week the couple donated $250,000 to the relief fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so honored and humbled to work with artist\u2019s who have such deep care for the world and right now for our brothers & sisters of Lebanon who are in pain and need our collective help,\u201d Slaiby wrote.\u00a0\u201cI want to thank my brother\u00a0@theweeknd\u00a0for his generous and class act of donating $300,000 to the Global Aid for Lebanon campaign.<\/p>\n

Also, I want to give a special thank you to Michael Rapino @michaelrapino and my Live Nation family for $50,000 donation. Give what you can and let\u2019s repost so the world can come together to help Lebanon from this this devastating tragedy. #GlobalAidForLebanon @glblctzn @lebaneseredcross @wfpusa @wfp_mena @ccclebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June, The Weeknd (real name: Abel Tesfaye) donated $200,000 each to Black Lives Matter Global Network and the Colin Kaepernick Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Initiative, and $100,000 to National Bail Out. Later in June, he donated $500,000 each to\u00a0MusiCares\u2019 COVID-19 relief fund\u00a0and to the front-line hospital workers of Scarborough Health Network, the hospital network in the Ontario city where he was raised. His virtual concert on TikTok last week raised $350,000 for the company\u2019s Equal Justice Initiative.<\/p>\n

His Lebanon donation brings his total charitable contributions to some $2.15 million in just over two months.<\/p>\n

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