Philanthropy
While each member of the group has had their own individual humanitarian advocacies and activities, Westlife has been supporting various projects for a charity cause from the start. One of which was when the group had their song "I Have A Dream" remastered to include Indonesian child singer Sherina Munaf for a UNICEF fund raising in 2000. They were also involved on the Helping For Haiti charity single that was released 8 February 2010 on UK. Aside from that, the group released their cover version of "Uptown Girl" as a Comic Relief single, which was one of their biggest selling singles to date.
On 4 November 2005, they performed together with Christina Aguilera and Diana Ross at Coca-Cola Dome in Johannesburg, South Africa for The “Unite of the Stars” Gala Banquet charity concert that supports four charities: the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, Unite Against Hunger, St. Mary’s Hospital and the Topsy Foundation. They also performed live for charity on Sports Relief, Macmillan Cancer Support, Croí, Western Alzheimer’s, O’Dwyer Cheshire Home, Mayo Cancer Support Group, Marie Keating Foundation, Outward Bound Trust, ChildLine, Children in Need, Sheffield's Children Hospital. They've participated also in Royal British Legion and Galway's Irish Water Safety Campaign by doing an advertisement. They had also helped for auctions on Meningitis Research Foundation, Carlton Celebrity Auction (for Centrepoint (for the homeless), the N.S.P.C.C., and The Samaritans), Zutto charity painting, Pushing The Envelope (for National Literacy Trust) and Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS). They've visited also Great Osmond Street Hospital for charity.
They've been involved also with the following organisations: Free Tibet, Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID), Cancer Research UK, Byrne for Heart Attack and asthma awareness campaigns, Daily Star’s Reclaim Our Streets crusade, Filan for Irish Red Cross (by Sligo Rover's Showgrounds football match), Byrne for Oxfam's East Africa Famine appeal (by Celtic v Manchester United football match), Filan and Byrne for Soccer Aid, JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am, One World Beat, Egan for Strandhill Indonesian Relief Fund (SIRF, in aid of the South Asian tsunami victims), World Food Programme (WFP), Muscle Help Foundation, Feehily for Aware, Byrne for Children’s Hospice South West (by Truro charity football match), Global Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign and Real Man campaign. They were also included as ambassadors of The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC). As part of IPSCC, Feehily signed up for their anti-bullying campaign, "Join the Fight for Children's Rights".
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
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