Wycleaf Jean’s charity takes Haitian girls to shopping
By ANIWednesday, May 19, 2010
New York, May 19 (ANI): Wycleaf Jean’s charity organization gave three Haitian girls, who lost their limbs in the earthquake earlier this year, a reason to smile - by letting them shop goods worth 1,000 dollars at Kmart.
The youngest of the three girls, Farah Maurice, 8, had lost a leg above the knee, while the other two girls, Magarette Pierre, 17, and Chantal Mori, 17, each lost an arm, in the earthquake.
The rapper’s charity, ‘Yele Haiti’ associated with the W. 34th St. store to provide the girls with clothing, shoes and makeup.
“When you come from a country where you make 1 dollar a day, giving them 1,000 dollars is like giving them 10,000 dollars,” the New York Daily News quoted Jean, as saying.
He added: “They need to know there are people like them and they’re normal. Today they’re not thinking, ‘I don’t have a leg.’ They’re just being kids and they’re happy.”
The girls will also be treated at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia for free. They will be fitted with prosthetic limbs on June 3. (ANI)
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May 19, 2010: 3:14 pm
Wyclef Jean, co-founder of Yéle Haiti, was at the Penn Station Kmart this afternoon to help bring much needed joy to three young Haitian amputees on their trip to the States to get urgently needed artificial limbs. Kmart has graciously donated shopping sprees for the three girls and their hosts, valued at $3,000. Yéle Haiti worked with the Global Medical Relief Fund (GMRF) to provide eight round-trip tickets from their partner Delta Airlines—which included tickets for GMRF staff and the patients’ relatives—between Port-au-Prince and the GMRF’s headquarters in Staten Island, N.Y. The group will then travel to Philadelphia tomorrow, where the three patients will be treated at Shriners Hospitals for Children, which will be providing the care for free. |
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