Canadian singer, The Weeknd, has donated $300,000 to victims of the Beirut explosion that killed over 200 people and injured thousands in Lebanon recently.
The donation was announced by Lebanese-Canadian entrepreneur Wassim Slaiby, who is the Chief Executive Officer of record label XO and doubles as the manager of The Weeknd. Slaiby made the announcement on his Instagram account and added that the donations would be made to the Lebanese Red Cross, the Children’s Cancer Centre Lebanon and the World Food Programme.
While making the announcement, Slaiby wrote: ”I am so honored and humbled to work with artist’s 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. I want to thank my brother @theweeknd for his generous and class act of donating $300,000 to the Global Aid for Lebanon campaign.”
The Weeknd donated $200,000 each to Black Lives Matter Global Network and the Colin Kaepernick Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Initiative in June, 2020. He also gave $100,000 to National Bail Out in the same month.
Later in June, he availed $500,000 each to MusiCares’ COVID-19 relief fund and to the front-line health workers of Scarborough Health Network, the health network in Ontario where he was brought up.
