Rihanna's $5 Million Donation To Fight COVID-19 Will Center Vulnerable Communities

Rihanna's foundation, which she founded in 2012 and named soon after her grandparents, is joining the fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus and the illness it causes, referred to as COVID-19.


On Monday (March 23), the Clara Lionel Foundation reported it is donating $5 million to firms at the frontlines of the pandemic, including Direct Relief, Feeding America, the International Rescue Committee, Partners in Health, and the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. The cash will assist food banks that help at-risk communities; distribute testing and other resources in Haiti, Malawi, and Native communities; and offer personalized protective gear (PPE), training, and respiratory supplies to healthcare workers.


"When we first started this year, never could we have considered how COVID-19 would so dramatically adjust our lives," a statement from the agency reads. "It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from, this pandemic will affect us all. And for the world’s most weak, the worst may be however to come."


The business also posted a Instagram video advising people on how they can personally take action to slow the spread of the virus if they can't support corporations with donations of their own.


Five days back, the mogul's eponymous makeup brand, Fenty Aesthetics, reported it could be moving all corporate and customer service operations to a work-from-home model. Her luxury style brand, Fenty, followed suit two days later.


You will support prevent the spread of COVID-19. Not each person has the alternative to reside at residence, however in case could, you have got to! Social distancing is the new usual, and we’re here to help.