Wyclef Jean honored at NAACP Awards
Wyclef Jean was chosen as humanitarian of the year at the NAACP Award show:
The NAACP has seen fit this year to honor Mr Wyclef Jean with the Vanguard Award. The recipient of this award is chosen based on their work to improve racial and social issues. It is an honor well deserved by Mr. Jean.
[...] In 2005 Jean established the Yele Haiti Foundation with a quarter of a million dollars of his own money. Wyclef coined the term Yele and it comes from a creole word that mean to scream. He chose it because he wanted his cry for his country to be heard. The foundation was created to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to his homeland. In its first year of operation, Yele Haiti provided scholarships to 3,600 students, and has concentrated efforts on education, arts, sports, food distribution and emergency relief. Yele Haiti now has an annual operating budget of $3 million dollars.
After the devastating earthquake struck Haiti recently, Mr. Jean was on a plane to Haiti almost immediately and worked tirelessly to help during the disaster and to raise money awareness of his country’s plight.
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Go Wyclef Jean!… weird name though
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…………it’s fine with me.
HE IS BLACK, folks!!
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