The Weeknd has been honored for his social activism, being named the recipient of the 2022 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award.
In response to a press launch from the group, the award goes to a Canadian artist, duo or group annually “in recognition of their social activism and benevolent help of humanitarian pursuits and causes.” Along with the award, The Slaight Household Basis will make a $50,000 donation to the charity of The Weeknd’s selecting.
“That this can be a Canadian award sits deep with me,” the Grammy Award-winning singer stated in an announcement. “Allan and The Slaight Household Basis are identified throughout the nation for his or her beneficiant philanthropy, and it means quite a bit to be acknowledged, and is an honor to be acknowledged together with the legendary Canadian artists who obtained this award earlier than me.”
President/CEO of the Slaight Household Basis, Gary Slaight, additionally made an announcement and defined the group’s causes for selecting the “Starboy” singer.
“The worldwide success of Abel ‘the Weeknd’ Tesfaye makes each Canadian proud,” Slaight stated. “What Abel has accomplished together with his success is one thing that we could be doubly happy with–and that is to enhance the lives of individuals in want, in Canada and all over the world. His altruism, in a phrase, is exemplary.”
In the previous few years, The Weeknd has donated greater than $8.3 million to completely different causes, together with $50,000 to the St. Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Toronto he attended when he was a child; $100,000 to Uganda-based maternity and youngsters’s medical facility the Suubi Well being Middle; giant donations to the Black Lives Matter World Community Basis, the Equal Justice Initiative and the United Nations World Meals Programme; and he funded a brand new Ethiopian research program on the College of Toronto.
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In September, he fulfilled a younger most cancers affected person’s greatest dream when he agreed to fulfill her backstage at one in every of his exhibits.
The singer obtained phrase of the want after the kid’s mother made a tweet explaining how her daughter is at present combating most cancers and she or he wished nothing greater than to fulfill her favourite artist.
“My daughter desires to fulfill her favourite artist @theweeknd and go to his live performance,” the tweet learn. “I need to make that occur for her, she deserves one of the best of one of the best. she’s kicking most cancers’s butt and nonetheless being a light-weight on this world. assist me make it occur for her. #AbelMeetKatana.”
The Weeknd fortunately obliged and clips of the later interplay present the elated toddler presenting him with items she made together with a cutout of the letter “A” in addition to one thing for his canine. Earlier than their heat embrace as he headed to the stage, he thanked the younger fan saying, “That is for my canine! Actually? Thanks a lot.”
