Michael Jackson is a true humanitarian, an example to us all. He has devoted much time and money to a wide range of charities. He loves children and takes time out when touring secretly visiting sick children. He also has special rooms at his home Neverland for sick and terminally ill children to stay over. He was listed in the 2000 edition of the Guiness Book Of World Records for breaking the world record for the "Most Charities Supported By a Pop Star". It states that Michael Jackson has supported 39 charity organizations either with monetary donations through sponsorships of their projects or by participating in their silent auction.
The names of known charities that Michael Jackson has individually supported publically throughout his career are listed below:
AIDS Project L.A.
American Cancer Society
Angel Food
Big Brothers of Greater Los Angeles
BMI Foundation, Inc.
Brotherhood Crusade
Brothman Burn Center
Camp Ronald McDonald
Childhelp U.S.A.
Children's Institute International
Cities and Schools Scholarship Fund
Community Youth Sports & Arts Foundation
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)
Dakar Foundation
Dreamstreet Kids
Dreams Come True Charity
Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
Love Match
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Minority Aids Project
Motown Museum
NAACP
National Rainbow Coalition
Rotary Club of Australia
Society of Singers
Starlight Foundation
The Carter Center's Atlanta Project
The Sickle Cell Research Foundation
Transafrica
United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
United Negro College Fund Ladder's of Hope
Volunteers of America
Watts Summer Festival
Wish Granting
YMCA - 28th Street/Crenshaw
What’s more, in 1992, Michael Jackson set up another foundation called The Heal The World Foundation which focuses on children’s safety and health. It also aims to make the world be aware of the rights and needs of all the children in the world, to improve the world we live in, without violence and free of diseases. For more information, please visit the official website at www.healtheworld.com
8 years later, in 2000, Heal The Kids was launched, developed by Heal The World Foundation. Heal The Kids was set up to boost children's welfare and will help adults and parents realize it's in our power to change the world our children live in. Please visit its official website at www.healthekids.com for more information.
Songs such as “Heal the World”, “We are the World”, “Can You Feel It” and “Man in the Mirror” immensely convey Jackson’s great interest in humanitarianism, equality and world peace.
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