Heath's Charitable Causes

[MaineWriter]

It has come up on the condolences thread that we might have a bit of extra money and what should we do with it? I did a little sleuthing and found Look to the Stars: Inspiration for a better world. Here is Heath's profile.

Heath Ledger's Charity Work

Areas supported: AIDS | Children
Born: April 4, 1979

An auction on eBay raised $101,000 for shirts he and Jake Gyllenhaal wore in Brokeback Mountain for Variety – The Children’s Charity

Ledger died on January 22, 2008, 4 months shy of a charity trip to Africa with Elissa Sursara to speak on behalf on anti-poaching campaigners.

Charities supported

    * ALAFA
    * LIFEbeat
    * Variety - The Children's Charity

http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/149-heath-ledger

[MaineWriter]

Information about the three organizations he supported:

ALAFA

Categories: AIDS

The Apparel Lesotho Alliance to Fight AIDS was launched in Maseru in May 2006 to provide prevention and treatment services to the 45,000 mainly women Basotho workers in the industry, one third of whom are estimated to be infected with HIV.

Bono attended the launch of the charity in May 2006, kicking off a 10-day tour of six African countries, and noted that Lesotho was a microcosm of all of the opportunities and challenges facing Africa.

“If you can’t make a difference to the lives of the Basotho then what chance is there for the rest of Africa?” he asked rhetorically.

Bono and his wife have a factory in Lesotho, producing the “conscious-consumer” Edun brand of clothing. He said Lesotho should be branded as a new model of labour excellence.

“You can’t be a model of excellence if your workforce is dying of Aids.”

That is why he was so excited to welcome this project, he said.

“Unless we stymie Aids then all the other (development) work being done will be undone.”

Bono called for universal access to anti-retroviral treatment, which is a major part of the ALAFA project.

“Everyone who faces this illness should have those pills.”

Web sites

    * ALAFA.info (Official) http://www.alafa.info/Pages/Default.asp

Celebrity supporters

    * Bono
    * Gary Oldman
    * Heath Ledger
    * Jimmy Fallon
    * Naomi Watts

http://www.looktothestars.org/charity/712-alafa

[MaineWriter]

LIFEbeat

Categories: AIDS

Dedicated to reaching America’s youth with the message of HIV/AIDS prevention. LIFEbeat mobilizes the talents and resources of the music industry to raise awareness and to provide support to the AIDS community.

Web sites

    * LIFEbeat (Official) http://www.lifebeat.org/index.cfm

Celebrity supporters

    * Alicia Keys
    * Foo Fighters
    * Heath Ledger
    * Incubus
    * John Legend
    * Kaiser Chiefs
    * Keanu Reeves
    * Linkin Park
    * Tobey Maguire
    * Usher

How you can help

Find out how you can get involved http://www.lifebeat.org/you_can_help.htm


http://www.looktothestars.org/charity/640-lifebeat

[MaineWriter]

Variety - The Children's Charity

Categories: Children

Enthusiatic group of business leaders who donate their time, rescources and energy to positively impact the lives of children

Web sites

    * Variety - The Children's Charity http://www.usvariety.org/

Celebrity supporters

    * Cuba Gooding Jr.
    * Dane Cook
    * Heath Ledger
    * Jake Gyllenhaal
    * Jessica Simpson
    * Johnny Knoxville
    * Pierce Brosnan
    * Seann William Scott
    * Will Ferrell

http://www.looktothestars.org/charity/153-variety-the-childrens-charity

[tamarack]

If this is how we decide to use some of the money, I would tend to lean toward HIV/AIDS. I think that there will always be a lot of people who are willing to do something for children.

[Brown Eyes]

This is really valuable information Leslie.  Thanks for posting this.

[MaineWriter]

This is really valuable information Leslie.  Thanks for posting this.

Thanks, Amanda.

L

[Kelda]

I was just going to come on to post that I found a website a few days ago that listed SPECIFIC charities he supported....


quote author=Kelda link=topic=16644.msg324169#msg324169 date=1201390658]

Interestingly from this http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/149-heath-ledger - it seems Heath's charitable interests were childrens charities and AIDs charities - perhaps I'll try to find an ozzie childrens or aids charity to give some money to.
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but its the same one.. great minds Leslie!!!

[Kerry]

If this is how we decide to use some of the money, I would tend to lean toward HIV/AIDS. I think that there will always be a lot of people who are willing to do something for children.

Thank you for undertaking this invaluable research, Leslie. 

Personally, I'm inclined to agree with tamarack. There will always be zillions of people donating to children's charities. This is not necessarily always the case with AIDS charities. So I'm inclined to veer towards the AIDS charities myself.