Chris Brown seems to be making Giving Back his new hobby and we aren’t made at him at all! Last month he made dreams come true by granting students of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy with scholarships through his Symphonic Love Foundation. He also appeared at a domestic violence fashion show put on by NFL pro-bowler, Adrian Lewis Peterson and he doesn’t seem to want to stop.
Over the weekend, Breezy joined forces with famous graffiti artist Slick (real name Richard Wyrgatsch II), tagging up a wall to raise funds for the Best Buddies International foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
The rapper tweeted, “Painting today with ‘Slick’. An Amazing artist. Gonna be a big collaboration for charity. Do what u love!” He also used his celebrity to speak up for the beautiful people at AIDS Project Los Angeles. Chris Brown is promoting the AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA). The public service announcement originally aired on World AIDS Day, at a Los Angeles Lakers game and then repeated at other games that month. Brown approached APLA to work with his Symphonic Love Foundation to raise awareness and fight discrimination and stigma, says APLA’s executive director Craig E. Thompson, adding: “Chris made it clear he wanted to speak out on HIV/AIDS in a very public way.”
“You hear stories in the news—kids still getting kicked out of school because they are HIV positive or families broken by stigma,” says the 23-year-old GRAMMY winner. “That’s just wrong and ignorant. It’s about knowledge. HIV is not something you catch from shaking hands.”
Sounds like Brown is making a change for the better.
