Philanthropy
Since 2009, Hedley has been involved in social change by being ambassadors to one of the most popular charities around the world, Free the Children. They performed at both the 2009 and 2010 We Day performances, and today they are still involved in the fight against the cycle of poverty around the world. Along with performing at We Day performances, Hedley was also involved in two Free the Children’s projects by visiting both Kenya and India over the past two years. The summer of 2011, Hedley travelled to Rajasthan, where they witnessed the effects of poverty first-hand. Hedley asks its fans to help take a stand, by explaining that “we were faced with the harsh reality that many people in impoverished communities are forced to live without the rights we take for granted here—such as health care. We returned to Canada resolved to take a stand and raise funds to help the families we met in the overall region”.
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“Almost every man we meet requires some civility,—requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... 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)
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)