Nadal vs. Federer, Just for Haiti
by The best players in the world will play a charity exhibition tournament in Australia. George Clooney and Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean will present a telethon on MTV that will be broadcast by all U.S. televisions.
The response of show-usually-sensitive in this aspect to the tragedy of Haiti has been immediate: grants, solidarity appeals, Entrepreneurship, have occurred in recent days. Also the sports world has mobilized to try to mitigate the effects of the devastating earthquake. Roger Federer has encouraged several of his teammates to play several exhibition games in Melbourne, where the main players in the world to contest the Australia Open. “Hit for Haiti” is the name of the event, which will also meet with Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick, Serena Williams, Kim Clijster and Sam Stosur.
Actor George Clooney leads one of the most outstanding initiatives, as it will be the host of a telethon to be hosted next on January 22 MTV, and will be broadcast on other channels such as ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN and HBO. Clooney will participate alongside various stars of music, film and television estadounideneses. One is Wyclef Jean, born in Haiti, which logically is one of the most active in mobilizing the popular faces.
Through Earthquake Yele Haiti foundation, created for the occasion, Jean has raised $ 1.9 million. To this must be added the donations of figures like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who were the first to react, and donated one million dollars (nearly 700,000 euros) through MSF; Sandra Bullock gave another million the same organization dollars. Madonna made a donation of 250,000 dollars (175,000 euros) through Partners in Health.
They are not the only Hollywood stars who have been mobilized and have used their popularity to encourage people to provide financial assistance to victims. Actress Alyssa Milano announced via his blog that he had given $ 50,000 (35,000 euros) and model Gisele Bundchen has donated $ 1.5 million. Chris Martin, Coldplay component of the group, asked its fans to send their assistance through Oxfam, as he did Scarlett Johansson, regular contributor to this organization. They have also made calls for solidarity Oprah Winfrey, Ben Stiller and the cyclist Lance Armstrong, who also donated through his foundation another $ 250,000.
In Spain, several popular faces have joined the initiative to help the NGO Plan, including Iker Casillas, Rudy Fernandez, Chenoa, Javier Fesser, Emilio Butragueño, Pepu Hernandez, Victor Sada, Laura Sanchez, Eugenia Silva, Damiel Mosque Chus Bures and Ramon Fuentes.
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