Olivia Rodrigo to donate $2million to international girls’s charities

Olivia Rodrigo is because of donate a considerable sum of money to a number of girls’s charities throughout the globe.

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Per a Billboard report, the ‘Good 4 U’ singer-songwriter has introduced that she will likely be donating a hefty sum of cash, taken from ticket gross sales for her ‘Guts’ world tour, to key organisations specializing in girls’s points.

The singer has been a vocal reproductive rights activist, having introduced the launch of The Fund 4 Good initiative earlier this yr as a part of the ‘Guts’ world tour.

The sum will quantity to over US$2million, and will likely be unfold throughout 10 organisations that champion ladies’ schooling, girls’s reproductive rights and the prevention of gender-based violence.

The ten charities are the US’ Nationwide Community of Abortion Funds, Canada’s Ladies’s Shelters’ Europe’s Ladies Towards Violence Europe, Thailand’s the Pratthanadee Basis, South Korea’s Korea Basis For Ladies, Hong Kong’s Concord Home Restricted, Singapore’s Aidha, Japan’s NPO Ladies’s Saya-Saya, Australia’s Wesnet and eventually the Philippines’ Jhpiego.

The upcoming donations come after Rodrigo – who's half-Filipina– in October carried out within the Philippines for the primary time, and donated all of her live performance’s income to Jhpiego.

She wrote: “I obtained to go to the group whereas I used to be in Manila and was so impressed by the work they're doing offering healthcare to girls and ladies within the Philippines. It was probably the most particular present and probably the most significant journey. to say I’m grateful doesn’t even minimize it! Mahal kita ❤️”

Over the course of her profession, Rodrigo has been a staunch supporter of reproductive rights, with the singer saying she was “heartbroken” over the Supreme Court docket’s determination to overturn Roe v Wade again in 2022.

Earlier this yr, the ‘Get Him Again!’ singer made headlines for handing out contraceptive kits with condoms, Plan Bs, and data for abortion entry at her present in Missouri. The state notably banned nearly all abortions after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. The kits have been a part of a reproductive rights initiative held on her tour, by which the Nationwide Community of Abortion Funds would have a sales space at each present on her North American leg.

Forward of the newest US Presidential election, Rodrigo additionally endorsed incoming President Donald Trump’s rival Kamala Harris, primarily based on her stance on reproductive rights.

In different information, Rodrigo will likely be enjoying her largest ever UK present with a headline slot at BST Hyde Park subsequent summer season. She is going to carry out in London on June 27 subsequent yr, and is the fifth artist to hitch subsequent yr’s line-up after Noah Kahan, Jeff Lynne‘s ELO, Zach Bryan and Hugh Jackman have been all beforehand confirmed.

Assist for the Hyde Park efficiency will come from The Final Dinner Social gathering and Lady In Purple, with extra acts to be introduced within the coming weeks. Tickets could be bought here.