The Weeknd has pledged $2 million to provide 18 million loaves of bread to starving families in war-torn Gaza.
has pledged another $2 million from his XOP Humanitarian Fund to the World Food Programme’s humanitarian response efforts in war-torn Gaza. According to a statement released on Monday morning , the money from the artist who now goes by his real name, Abel Tesfaye, will be used to provide more than 1,500 metric tons of fortified wheat flour, which can be used to make more than 18 million loaves of bread to feed more than 157,000 Palestinians for a month.— to the WFP’s Gaza response in Dec. 2023.
“We are very grateful for Abel’s continued support as WFP works to respond to the urgent hunger crisis in Gaza,” Barron Segar, WFP USA president/CEO said in a statement. “Hunger is a human-made problem, and as such, it is solvable. We have enough food in this world to feed everyone; all we need is the funding and safe access to make it happen. Thanks to Abel’s designation, families and children will receive the food they so desperately need.
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