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Harvard names Rihanna as Humanitarian of a Year
- Updated: February 24, 2017
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Rihanna might be best famous for being the happening RB luminary that she is, though on Wednesday she was named a 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of a Year for her gift work.
The 29-year-old thespian from Barbados will be given a endowment in chairman on campus on Feb 28, a university announced.
“Rihanna has charitably built a state-of-the-art centre for oncology and chief medicine to diagnose and provide breast cancer during a Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados,” Harvard Foundation executive S Allen Counter said.
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She has also set adult a grant programme, named after her grandparents, for Caribbean students study in a United States, and supports efforts to give girls improved entrance to preparation in a building world.
“It is for these munificent initiatives and other acts of merciful pity that a students and expertise of a Harvard Foundation chose to honour Rihanna with a 2017 Humanitarian of a Year Award,” Counter stated.
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The thespian joins an shining register of past recipients that embody former UN secretary ubiquitous Ban Ki-Moon, Pakistani romantic and Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, and thespian Lionel Richie.
Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, has sole some-more than 200 million records, won 8 Grammy Awards and scored 14 number-one hits. She is also distinguished for her character and collaborates with Puma on a wardrobe line.
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