Celebrities out for a good cause. I love it. I also love Mac makeup.
The ladies look fab. I love Eve's new haircut and her outfit is cute, even the shoes. Dita has an old school beauty, like she walked out of a 1950's movie set.
I will continue to support Mac. They are doing wonderful work.
Since 1994, the M·A·C AIDS Fund continues to provide funding to non-profit HIV/AIDS organizations and programs for basic needs, such as food, clothing, housing or shelter (short-term or transitional); direct services related to healthcare, social services, transportation (for medical visits, outpatient visits and other social services), and health-related recreational activities, and programs that bring HIV/AIDS education, awareness and prevention to public attention.While we're on the subject of celebrities doing charitable work and supporting good causes, Wyclef Jean and Petra Nemcova were in Haiti earlier this week.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean was given a hero's welcome in one of Haiti's most destitute slums on Monday, riding the shoulders of his cheering countrymen to the site of a small-business project he helped develop.
On his first trip to Haiti since being named a roving ambassador by President Rene Preval in January, the musician met legislators and accompanied Czech model Petra Nemcova to a school in the neighborhood where he was born.
Jean, who moved to Brooklyn as a young boy, then changed into a pinstriped suit to ask a luncheon crowd of businessmen, the U.N. envoy and nearly every major foreign ambassador for aid.
"We need all your money, we need all y'all's support, but let's put it to programs ... that teach kids how to move the country forward," Jean told dignitaries in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
In the port slum of Cite Soleil, Jean, who had success as a member of the Grammy-winning group The Fugees and as a solo artist, was carried along by a crowd of 1,000 people who yelled his name and danced past bullet-scarred shacks. At one point, Jean bowed his head in silent prayer.
"I asked for benediction upon this place, for all these kids," Jean told The Associated Press.
Nemcova, who founded her own charity after she was injured and her boyfriend killed in a catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, joined Jean in visiting an adjacent cooperative sponsored by Jean's charity group, Yele Haiti.
The cooperative restaurant — one of 10 planned for Port-au-Prince — will employ 15 local women when it opens in December, selling meals from about 70 cents to $1.40.
Kudos to Eve, Dita, Wyclef and Petra. Good work! See more pictures from both events below.
Photos via wireimage and celebcity - Wyclef article Associated Press.
