Just after announcing her pregnancy with A$AP Rocky, Rihanna headed to Los Angeles and made a stop at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus to spend time with homeless vets and support the community.
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On Monday, activist, Sennett Devermont shared a photo of himself alongside Rihanna. He wrote, “Thank you @badgalriri for pulling up with all the love and support and most importantly your ears to listen to Veterans. Shoutout to all those asking questions and wondering why veterans are sleeping in tents, using porta potties, cold and unhealthy meals, curfews, and on a 388 acre property funded in the billions with broken showers?”
In a video shared by the AFTP Foundation, a veteran excitedly shares, “My family’s not going to believe what happened to me today!”
He gushed, “I met Rihanna, the greatest singer on Earth.
She donated clothes, food and she cares about the veterans. United States Army veterans, US Marine veterans, Air Force veterans, Navy veterans. She cares about all the veterans. She cares about us and she showed it. She’s going to take care of business.”
The caption alongside the video reads, “Despite all circumstances of how veterans are treated sleeping in tents on asphalt or tiny sheds on land they should call a home, I can say hope and joy was spread to the Veterans. The authenticity of actually caring and listening was beyond the amazing supplies that @badgalriri donated. Rihanna made that happen when she visited the vets today. Honored to have been witness to this!”
Throughout the pandemic, Rihanna’s nonprofit organization, the Clara Lionel Foundation, donated $5 million to organizations all over the world that aim to uplift underserved communities. These donations reached from the U.S. to Malawi.
The Clara Lionel Foundation has contributed to Direct Relief, Partners In Health, Feeding America, the International Rescue Committee, World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and more.
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