Caribbean queen, magnificence mogul, businesswoman, and artist who has not dropped an album since 2016’s Anti, Robin Rihanna Fenty has pledged to donate $15 million to climate justice organizations within the United States and the Caribbean.
The announcement got here late final week by way of the artist’s Clara Lionel Foundation, in partnership with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s #StartSmall initiative, which is a worldwide fund for pandemic reduction. There are 18 organizations that would be the recipients of the cash together with the Indigenous Environmental Network, Climate Justice Alliance, and the Caribbean Climate Justice Project.
“These grants support entities focused on and led by women, youth, Black, Indigenous, people of color and LGBTQIA+ communities,” a press release stated.
Rihanna based the Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012 to help assist communities put together for the impacts of the local weather disaster. The basis is at present working with 9 energetic climate-based tasks in six international locations and has already dedicated roughly $10 million for catastrophe preparedness and emergency response.
“These projects, which range from school and health clinic infrastructure hardening projects to gender-integrated emergency response planning and local capacity building in the Caribbean, serve as models of preparedness that can be replicated and scaled to enable other high-risk regions around the world to be better prepared to withstand extreme weather events,” the foundation’s website reads. “Ultimately, our goal is that the Caribbean becomes the world’s first climate-resilient zone.”
Rihanna is initially from Barbados and has publicly commented on the aftermath of maximum climate up to now. Right after Hurricane Maria knocked out Puerto Rico’s grid in 2017, Rihanna famously tweeted at then-President Trump to take motion to assist the colony in its post-storm restoration. The storm broken a couple of third of the island’s greater than 1 million occupied houses, shut down energy for weeks for a lot of elements of the island—and for months for some households. More than 100,000 Puerto Ricans left the island because of the storm.
When Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas in 2019, making a path of destroyed houses throughout the islands that left hundreds homeless, the Clara Lionel Foundation shaped an emergency fund for medical aid efforts.
It is smart why Rihanna’s basis would concentrate on Caribbean islands— the area is vulnerable to pure disasters like hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and droughts— one thing local weather change is just making worst for the area. And rising sea ranges are swallowing beachfronts across the Caribbean.
Many of the island nations are low- and median-income international locations the place many communities lack the assets or infrastructure to continuously battle excessive occasions.
We could by no means see the sunshine of one other Rihanna album stuffed with sufficient bangers to gasoline a number of summers, however the world is receiving local weather justice help.
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